Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of mirror therapy (MT) on upper limb (UL) function of sub-acute stroke patients. Methods: This study is a single case experimental design with two participants. Twenty minutes of MT were implemented four times a week over a period of four weeks. For baseline phase, repeated measurements were performed six times for one participant and four times for the ...

The ongoing high relevance of business intelligence (BI) for the management and competitiveness of organizations requires a continuous, transparent, and detailed assessment of existing BI solutions in the enterprise. This paper presents a BI maturity model (called biMM) that has been developed and refined over years. It is used for both, in surveys to determine the overall BI maturity in German...

For a classical two-dimensional one-component plasma (with a logarithmic interaction), the onebody density can be calculated exactly when the coupling constant has the special value 0393 = 2. The behaviour of this density is studied near the wall of the circular box which encloses the system. If there is an excess charge, it concentrates near the wall. The density at the wall is related to the ...

This paper presents new Chinese question taxonomy respectively from approach and semantic viewpoints. According to the taxonomy, we propose a SVM classification algorithm which is based on multiple features. The experimental results show that: 1 Lexical semantic features and structural features are the guarantee of high performance of question classification; 2 The contribution of dependency re...

We prove that every two-way nondeterministic finite automaton with n states has an equivalent one-way nondeterministic finite automaton with at most 2n n+1 states. We also show this bound is exact.

Novel bisimide-fused acenes were synthesized via bismuth triflate mediated double-cyclization reaction of acid chlorides and isocyanates. Their optical and electrical properties revealed significantly smaller HOMO-LUMO gaps compared with those of their parent acenes. Fabricated OFET based on tetracene bisimide showed n-type OFET outputs.

To obtain optimal breast image quality during the image acquisition, a compression paddle is used to even the breast thickness. Clinical observation has indicated that breast peripheral areas may not be fully compressed, and may cause unexpected intensity and texture variation within these areas. Such breast parenchymal appearance discrepancies may not be desirable for tissue modelling within c...

VLSI designs often show regular structures, where issues like temporal and spatial recursivity, and bidirectionality play a central role. This document introduces the modelling of a class of regular VLSI circuits, namely iterative systolic arrays, in a particular secondorder logic, and presents fully automatic veri cation of pipeline properties for an example from the literature.

Henry Tourneux, in his 2007 article “L’inversion tonale en kotoko” (Tourneux 2007) drew our attention on a phenomenon concerning systematic tone variations contrasting a Low and High final tone in the tone patterns of two dialects of Kotoko. A similar phenomenon was observed in our study of Geji, a Chadic language spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. This paper aims at documenting this variation an...