OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of a new neuroprosthesis (NESS L300) designed to ameliorate foot drop on gait symmetry and rhythmicity during walking. DESIGN Twenty-four patients (mean age: 54.0 +/- 13.5 yrs) with chronic hemiparesis (5.8 +/- 5.2 yrs) whose walking was impaired by foot drop. Subjects walked for 6 mins while wearing force-sensitive insoles, once with and once without the neuro...

OBJECTIVE To compare effectiveness on correcting cranial and ear asymmetry between helmet therapy and counter positioning for deformational plagiocephaly (DP). METHODS Retrospective data of children diagnosed with DP who visited our clinic from November 2010 to October 2012 were reviewed. Subjects ≤10 months of age who showed ≥10 mm of diagonal difference were included for analysis. For DP tr...

We present new functional equations for the species of plane and of planar in the sense of Harary and Palmer, 1973 2-trees and some associated pointed species. We then deduce the explicit molecular expansion of these species, i.e.a classiication of their structures according to their stabilizers. Therein result explicit formulas in terms of Catalan numbers for their associated generating series...

Asymmetry is a fundamental aspect of the biology of all organisms, and has a deep evolutionary history. The fossil record contains evidence of both morphological and behavioural asymmetries. Morphological asymmetry is most commonly expressed as conspicuous, directional asymmetry (either lateral asymmetry or spiral asymmetry) in body fossils. Few examples of fluctuating asymmetry, a form of subt...

The hopelessness theory of depression proposes that individuals with a depressogenic cognitive style are more likely to become hopeless and experience depression following negative life events. Although the neurophysiological underpinnings of cognitive style remain speculative, research indicates that decreased relative left frontal brain electrical activity holds promise as a traitlike marker ...

With the purpose of addressing the pattern of karyotype evolution in Caesalpinia species, chromosome morphology was characterized in five species from Brazil, and karyotypic asymmetry was analyzed in 14 species from South America. All accessions had the chromosome number 2n = 24, which was first described here for Caesalpinia laxiflora Tul. and Cenostigma macrophyllum Tul. The karyotype formula...

OBJECTIVES To develop a new analysis method for the quantitative assessment of vibration of the vocal folds, using conventional videostroboscopic image data. METHODS We used prerecorded videostroboscopic images to evaluate quantitatively the vibration of the vocal folds. Successive images were converted as digital images by means of an image-grabbing board, processed for analysis, and reconst...

DNA replication was recently shown to induce the formation of compositional skews in the genomes of the yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces lactis. In this work, I have characterized further GC and TA skew variations in the vicinity of S. cerevisiae replication origins and termination sites, and defined asymmetry indices for origin analysis and prediction. The presence of skew jum...

PURPOSE To determine the efficacy of INTACS insertion using a femtosecond laser in the treatment of keratoconus and to compare it to the technique using a mechanical spreader. METHODS INTACS were inserted in 10 eyes using the mechanical spreader to create the channels and subsequently on another 20 eyes using the femtosecond laser. Uncorrected (UCVA) and best spectacle-corrected visual acuity...