Postural stability is crucial in maintaining body balance during quiet standing, locomotion, and any activities that require a high degree of balance performance, such as participating in sports and dancing. Research has shown that there is a relationship between stability and body mass. The aims of this study were to examine the impact that two variables had on static postural control: body ma...

OBJECTIVES To validate the relation of the nephrometry scores in a series of patients who underwent partial nephrectomy with perioperative parameters and the urologist-radiologist reproducibility. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study of open and laparoscopic partial nephrectomy patients performed between 2005 and 2012 registered in prospective filled out database. An urologist and a rad...

Gait analysis systems are widely used for the assessment of gait disabilities and provide more accurate and detailed information than clinical tests. Scores and indexes have been proposed to summarize the large volume of data produced, each emphasizing different aspects of gait. Based on specific spatiotemporal parameters, the Functional Ambulation Performance Score (FAPS) quantifies gait at a ...

In this paper, we investigate novel low-dimensional and model-free representations for multi-spectral fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (m-FLIM) data. We depart from the classical definition of the phasor in the complex plane to propose the extended output phasor (EOP) and extended phasor (EP) for multi-spectral information. The frequency domain properties of the EOP and EP are analytica...

Purpose: our objective is to assess whether the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) a valid methodology for measuring national systems of entrepreneurship. Theoretical framework: we use structural equation modeling (SEM) as theoretical lens evaluate Index. Design/methodology/approach: achieve research objective, perform measure formative model GEI, using SmartPLS 3.0 software, in order verify c...