background: little is known about the influence of habitual participation in physical exercise and diet on upper-extremity physical function in older adults. to assess the relationship of general physical exercise and diet to upper-extremity physical function and pain intensity in older adults.   methods: a cohort of 111 patients 50 or older completed a sociodemographic survey, the rapid assess...

background: recurrent lumbar disk herniation (rldh) is one of the major causes of failure of standard discectomy. the optimal treatment method for rldh is controversial. in the current study, we aimed to compare the clinical and functional outcomes of treating rldh with discectomy alone and discectomy associated with posterolateral interbody fusion (plif). material and methods: there were 41 pa...

based on, historical seismicity, position of 19-century instrumental epicenters, fault zones, relation of seismicity with active faults, and structural geology, statistics of earthquake activites, model studies for estimation of acceleration, and other information of intensities of iranian earthquakes, and for simplicity in the usage, the country is divided into two intensity provinces. in the ...

Phytase production by Aspergillus niger F3 by solid state fermentation (SSF) on citrus peel was evaluated at pilot scale under different aeration conditions. The best airflow intensity was 1 VkgM (Lair kg medium(-1) min(-1)), which allowed to produce 65 units of phytases per gram in dry basis (65 Ug(-1) d.b.) as it removed the metabolic heat generated by the microorganism, Agitation did not imp...

GENERALIZED SCALE: THEORY, ALGORITHMS, AND APPLICATIONS IN IMAGE ANALYSIS Anant Madabhushi Supervisor: Jayaram K. Udupa Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive method for imaging the human body and has revolutionized medical imaging. MR image processing, particularly segmentation, and analysis are used extensively in medical and clinical research for advancing our understanding ...

Vector acoustic intensity provides both the direction and magnitude of energy flow at the probe location and is, hence, more informative than acoustic pressure measurements. However, this important quantity has seen little application previously in aeroacoustics. In the present work, an intensity probe, consisting of four microphones, captured the radiated field to the sideline and aft of a tet...

Humans and laboratory animals are thought to discriminate sensory objects using elemental perceptual features computed by neural circuits in the brain. However, it is often difficult to identify the perceptual features that animals use to make specific comparisons. In olfaction, changes in the concentration of a given odor lead to discriminable changes in both its perceived quality and intensit...

The definition of intellectual disability, according to the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, includes the assumption that adequate supports should improve a person's functioning. Consequently, support needs have to be assessed to plan services for persons with intellectual disability. The Supports Intensity Scale (SIS; J. R. Thompson et al., 2004) is a standa...

This paper presents a robust method to correct for intensity differences across a series of aligned stained histological slices. The method is made up of two steps. First, for each slice, a scale-space analysis of the histogram provides a set of alternative interpretations in terms of tissue classes. Each of these interpretations can lead to a different classification of the related slice. A si...