Rett syndrome was identified by Dr.Andreas Rett, an Austrian physician in 1966. It is a neurological disease characterized by arrest of brain development caused by X chromosome mutation that commonly affect girls. The condition is a combination of orthopedics, neurological and cardio respiratory symptoms and most of the people die because respiratory dysfunction. Though medications are used for...

(i) Subjective rating a joint is moved through its range of motion by a tester who then grades the joint as ‘stiff’, ‘normal’ or ‘hypermobile’. (ii) Maximum range of motion (ROM) measured using goniometry and ruler scales. (iii) Joint stiffness – joint displacement and force applied are taken into account to calculate joint stiffness. In the foot, only the stiffness for the first ray has been r...

Hyperspectral goniometry reveals anisotropic scattering which dominates the visual appearance of self-assembled polymer opals. The technique allows reconstruction of the reciprocal-space of nanostructures, and indicates that chain defects formed during shear-ordering are responsible for the anisotropy in these samples. Enhanced scattering with improving order is shown to arise from increased ef...

The accuracy of joint angle measurement of the hand may be negatively influenced by joint swelling, deformation and other obstacles. We developed an alternative goniometer with clear ergonomic advantages, especially for the measurement of small joints. This new concept of goniometry is described and preliminary results on the reliability of the measurements are presented. The intraclass correla...

We aimed to study the independent associations of sedentary time (ST), moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and objectively measured cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) with clustered cardio-metabolic risk and its individual components (waist circumference, fasting glucose, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure). We also investigated whether any associations between MVPA or ST...

It is shown how high energy neutrino beams from very distant sources can be utilized to learn about many properties of neutrinos such as lifetimes, mass hierarchy, mixing, minuscule pseudo-Dirac mass splittings and other exotic properties; in addition, the production mechanism of neutrinos in astrophysical sources can also be elucidated.

dear colleagues, welcome to the fourth issue of the journal of cardio-thoracic medicine. we are grateful that with support and cooperation of our dear colleagues, the first year of jctm publication passed successfully. we are expecting to promote the indexing of journal of cardio-thoracic medicine in the following year. in this issue, a valuable review article has been written by dr.corlateanu ...

rising obesity incidence and its complications have lead to change of our view about cardio-metabolic risk factors and need of reassessment of these complications in childhood age. the aim of current study was to evaluate prevalence of obesity and related cardio-metabolic risk factors of children. this was a cross-sectional study in a representative sample of 12 years old children in rasht, the...