Hemianopic patients exhibit visual detection improvement in the blind field when audiovisual stimuli are given in spatiotemporally coincidence. Beyond this "online" multisensory improvement, there is evidence of long-lasting, "offline" effects induced by audiovisual training: patients show improved visual detection and orientation after they were trained to detect and saccade toward visual targ...

OBJECTIVE The effect of rehabilitation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has been well-documented in randomized controlled trials. Evidence-based guidelines support rehabilitation programmes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but knowledge of their outcome in clinical practice is limited. The aim of this study was to assess the outcome of a clinical routine rehabilitation progra...

OBJECTIVE To determine 5-year mortality and its association with baseline characteristics and functional status 6 months post-stroke for patients who received inpatient rehabilitation. DESIGN A prospective rehabilitation-based cohort study. SUBJECTS A total of 532 consecutive stroke patients from 4 European rehabilitation centres. METHODS Predictors were recorded on admission. Barthel Ind...

A study was conducted to determine the effect of serving capacity (SC) on sexual behavior of yearling bulls during single- and double-sire pasture matings. Approximately 60 crossbred virgin bulls were subjected to 3 SC tests, and 20 bulls were selected that were similar in age, BW, testes size and semen quality. Ten bulls were high SC (greater than or equal to 3 services/test) and 10 bulls were...

Comment on " Heat-Flow Induced Anomalies in Superfluid 4 He near T l " In a recent Letter [1], Haussmann and Dohm (HD) presented a renormalization group treatment of the 4 He lambda transition in a heat current Q. In this Comment, we use simple arguments that yield the same critical point exponent for the depressed T l , and nearly the same critical velocity, but indicate that HD may not have c...

social capital (sc) is important as much as physical capital and theorists discussed its functions in enhancement of countries. successfulness in international fields is far behind reach without due attention to capacity of countries. these capacities are known as competitiveness capacity (cc) in political literature. twelve indexes have been recognized for the cc which covers different dimensi...

1Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – UFSM, School of Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil 2Universidade Federal de Santa Maria UFSM, School of Speech Therapy, Department of Speech Therapy, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil 3 Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina UDESC, School of Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Therapy, Florianópolis, S...

The superior colliculus (SC) is a midbrain area where visual, auditory and somatosensory information are integrated to initiate motor commands. The SC plays a central role in visual information processing in the mouse; it receives projections from 85% to 90% of the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). While the mouse SC has been a long-standing model used to study retinotopic map formation, a number ...

We investigated whether 12 weeks of rehabilitation at home in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) had a beneficial effect on lactate production, metabolic gas exchange data, workload of the inspiratory muscles, and dyspnoea during a maximal bicycle ergometer test. A second aim was to assess whether a change in dyspnoea was related to a change of inspiratory muscle workloa...