BACKGROUND Spasticity affects more than 80% of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), affecting activity, participation, and quality of life. Based on an international guideline, an MS spasticity group education and stretching program, MS Spasticity: Take Control (STC), has been developed. OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to determine whether STC with home stretching is associated with ...

Abstract: The MIMO phased array radar is a theoretical concept for multi-sensor radar planning that combines elements of traditional phased-array radar with the developing technology of multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) radar. Space-time coding (STC) has been shown to play a key role in the design of Phased Array MIMO radar where MIMO radar can achieve improved localization performance by ...

BACKGROUND Understanding the evolutionary relationships among species based on their genetic information is one of the primary objectives in phylogenetic analysis. Reconstructing phylogenies for large data sets is still a challenging task in Bioinformatics. RESULTS We propose a new distance-based clustering method, the shortest triplet clustering algorithm (STC), to reconstruct phylogenies. T...

There is an increasing number of rapidly growing repositories capturing the movement of people in spacetime. Movement trajectory compression becomes an obvious necessity for coping with such growing data volumes. This paper introduces Semantic Trajectory Compression (STC), which allows for substantially compressing trajectory data with acceptable information loss. STC exploits that human urban ...

Previous work demonstrated restoration of a bioequivalent bladder within 8 weeks of removing the majority of the bladder (subtotal cystectomy or STC) in rats. The goal of the present study was to extend our investigations of bladder repair to the murine model, to harness the power of mouse genetics to delineate the cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for the observed robust bladder re...

In 2009, the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (STC) conducted an 'evidence check' on homeopathy to evaluate evidence for its effectiveness. In common with the wider literature critical of homeopathy, the STC report seems to endorse many of the strong claims that are made about its implausibility. In contrast with the critical literature, however, the STC report explicitly do...

The patterns of motor activity that exist in isolated full-length human colon have not been described. Our aim was to characterize the spontaneous motor patterns in isolated human colon and determine whether these patterns are different in whole colons obtained from patients with slow-transit constipation (STC). The entire colon (excluding the anus), was removed from patients with confirmed STC...

The SLSTC team participated in the NTCIR-12 Short Text Conversation (STC)[1] task. This report describes our approach to solving the STC problem and discusses the ocial results.

A lthough theophylline has long been the primary drug used for the management of reversible obstructive airway disease, current recommendations for determining theophylline dosage have not been dependable and, when applied to individual patients, have resulted in a wide range of serum theophylline concentrations (STC) and frequent adverse reactions.1-3 The objective of this study was to evaluat...

Mechanisms of tropical cyclogenesis have been studied for decades. A new one in the South China Sea, namely, PTC-STC is proposed. subsequent cyclone (STC) Sea can be induced by a pre-existing (PTC) over western North Pacific. The observations, reanalysis, and numerical sensitivity experiments suggest that terrain Philippines (especially Luzon) geographically essential to development STC, wherea...