OBJECTIVE To examine the test-retest reliability of the StepWatch Activity Monitor outputs over two periods, a week apart, in participants with stroke. DESIGN Test-retest reliability study over monitoring periods of one, two and three days. SETTING Participant's usual environment. PARTICIPANTS Forty participants more than six months post stroke. MAIN MEASURES StepWatch outputs: total st...

in aquaculture, fishes might experience periods of food deprivation during pre-harvesting, transporting and sorting. in during starvation, some fish utilize muscle protein as a major energy source and some fish utilize primarily lipids. with respect to vital role of starvation periods on body composition, the current study was carried out for one month in autumn 2010 at research farm of isfahan...

in this article, new index, the optimized synthetized drought index (osdi), is suggested for real-time monitoring of this phenomenon in areas with heterogeneous land covers. the precipitation, one of the important factors in drought, measured by ground stations and improved bytrmm satellite data. each of the three normalized moisture indices, including normalized difference vegetation index (nd...

Microplastic (MP) contamination in the marine environment has received growing attention. In 2022, surface water of U-Taphao River was sampled four times, February, April, June, and August. The samples were taken at seven different locations, ranging from upstream to downstream parts river. results reveal that number MPs detected August 0.41 ± 0.08, 0.25 ±0.06, 0.24 0.11, 0.26 0.06 particles/L,...

introduction pressure ulcers are tissue damages resulting from blood flow restriction, which occurs when the tissue is exposed to high pressure for a long period of time. these painful sores are common in patients and elderly, who spend extended periods of time in bed or wheelchair. in this study, a continuous pressure and temperature monitoring system was developed for pressure ulcer preventio...

Social influence has been shown to profoundly affect human behavior in general and technology adoption (TA) in particular. Over time, multiple definitions and measures of social influence have been introduced to the field of TA research, contributing to an increasingly fragmented landscape of constructs that challenges the conceptual integrity of the field. In this vein, this paper sets out to ...

anatomical and histomorphometrical study of sheep’s thymus was conducted by 75 apparently healthy fetuses that collected from urmia’s industrial slaughterhouse. after anatomical study, the samples were fixed in 10% formal saline, passaged and histological paraffin sections prepared in 5-7 μm in thickness, and by h&e; method stained. histomorphometrical study performed by graded and latticed len...

introduction: we present a retrospective two-center study series and discussion of the current literature to assess the benefits of facial nerve monitoring during parotidectomy. materials and methods: from 2007 to 2012, 128 parotidectomies were performed in 125 patients. of these, 47 procedures were performed without facial nerve monitoring (group 1) and 81 with facial nerve monitoring (group 2...