OBJECTIVES To determine the reliability and aspects of validity of the Evaluation Tool of Children's Handwriting-Cursive (ETCH-C; Amundson, 1995), using the general scoring criteria, when assessing children who use alternative writing scripts. METHOD Children in Years 5 and 6 with handwriting problems and a group of matched control participants from their respective classrooms were assessed w...

   In chiral and non-chiral electrophoretic resolution of basic drugs, adsorption of analytes to negatively charged capillary wall could lead to poor repeatability of migration time and peak area. In addition, chiral resolutions of basic drugs are commonly performed in low pH buffers. Therefore, longer analysis time due to suppression of electroosmotic flow (EOF) is another dilemma. In this wor...

background: different stressors induce learning and memory impairment and physical activity influence learning and memory enhancement. in this research, we investigated the effect of synchronized running activity with stress on acquisition and retention time of passive avoidance test. methods: male wistar rats were randomly divided into five groups as follows: control (co), sham (sh), exercise ...

A technique to study the dynamics of solving of a research task is suggested. The research task was based on specially developed software RightWrong Responder (RWR), with the participants having to reveal the response logic of the program. The participants interacted with the program in the form of a semi-binary dialogue, which implies the feedback responses of only two kinds “right” or “wrong”...

This study investigated changes in lower-extremity joint work and power during the swing phase in a maximal accelerated sprinting. Twelve male sprinters performed 60 m maximal sprints while motion data was recorded. Lower-extremity joint work and power during the swing phase of each stride for both legs were calculated. Positive hip and negative knee work (≈4.3 and ≈-2.9 J kg-1) and mean power ...

Despite increased interest in ultra-endurance events, little research has examined ultra-triathlon performance. The aims of this study were: (i) to compare swimming, cycling, running, and overall performances in three ultra-distance triathlons, double Ironman distance triathlon (2IMT) (7.6 km swimming, 360 km cycling, and 84.4 km running), triple Ironman distance triathlon (3IMT) (11.4 km, 540 ...

MICROPROBE SNAKE A. Hauptner, T. Cremer, M. Deutsch, S. Dietzel, G. Dollinger, G. A. Drexler, A. A. Friedl, C. Greubel, V. Hable, R. Krücken, R. Löwe, and H. Strickfaden 1 Physik Department E12, Technische Universität München, Germany 2 Department Biologie II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany 3 Strahlenbiologisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany 4 Insti...

Melatonin and wheel-running rhythmicity and the effects of acute and chronic light pulses on these rhythms were studied in Clock(Delta19) mutant mice selectively bred to synthesize melatonin. Homozygous melatonin-proficient Clock(Delta19) mutant mice (Clock(Delta19/Delta19)-MEL) produced melatonin rhythmically, with peak production 2 h later than the wild-type controls (i.e., just before lights...

Most business applications rely on the notion of long running transaction as a fundamental building block. This paper presents a calculus for modelling long running transactions within the framework of the π-calculus, with support for compensation as a recovery mechanism. The underlying model of this calculus is the asynchronous polyadic π-calculus, with transaction scopes and dynamic installat...