BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) is a 10-item gait assessment based on the Dynamic Gait Index. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability, internal consistency, and validity of data obtained with the FGA when used with people with vestibular disorders. SUBJECTS Seven physical therapists from various practice settings, 3 physical therapist students, an...

BACKGROUND Panax ginseng is a traditional herb used for medicinal purposes in eastern Asia. P. ginseng contains various ginsenosides with pharmacological effects. In this study, floralginsenoside A (FGA), ginsenoside Rd (GRD), and ginsenoside Re (GRE) were purified from P. ginseng berry. METHODS Chemical structures of FGA, GRD, and GRE were determined based on spectroscopic methods, including...

To determine the reliability of the functional gait assessment (FGA) as a measure of balance and gait in patients with Parkinson disease (PD).This study involved121 inpatients with PD (mean age 61.9 years). The participants were scored using the FGA by 2 raters, and the testing procedure was videotaped. One of the raters re-assessed the same FGA test via review of the videotaped test 4 weeks la...

BACKGROUND The Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) is a reliable and valid measure of gait-related activities. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the concurrent, discriminative, and predictive validity of the FGA in community-dwelling older adults. DESIGN This was a prospective cohort study. METHODS Thirty-five older adults aged 60 to 90 years completed the Activities-speci...

In this article, we propose a new type of genetic algorithm (GA), the forking GA (fGA), which divides the whole search space into subspaces, depending on the convergence status of the population and the solutions obtained so far. The fGA is intended to deal with multimodal problems that are difficult to solve using conventional GAs. We use a multipopulation scheme that includes one parent popul...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) is a clinical tool for evaluating performance in walking. The purpose of this study was to determine age-referenced norms for performance on the FGA in community-living older adults. SUBJECTS Subjects were 200 adults, ages 40 to 89 years, living independently. METHODS Each subject completed the FGA one time and was scored simultane...

Although it has long been realized that a large portion of the fibrinogen alpha chain has little if any defined structure, the physiological significance of this flexible appendage remains mysterious.

Microsatellites or Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) are loci with alleles composed of tandemly repeated short DNA sequences of 2-7 base pairs in length. In the present study, the polymorphism STR loci CODIS were analyzed in 40 people with a history of crime using multiplex PCR. The 6 STRs loci included TH01, TPOX, D16S539, D18S51, CSF1PO and FGA. The result showed that the highest PD and heterozygos...

The efficiency of medroxyprogesterone acetate (MAP) and fluorogestone acetate (FGA) sponges with or without PGF2α (cloprostenol) for synchronizing estrous in non-lactating does was investigated during the natural breeding season. Does were treated for 11 days with 60 mg MAP (n = 38) or 40 mg FGA (n = 32) sponges. All does also received intramuscular injections of 500 IU PMSG. In addition, 19 an...

Previous case-control studies showed that genetic variation in the fibrinogen gene (FGG) increased the risk for deep vein thrombosis (VT) in adults. We investigated the association between the fibrinogen (FGA) and FGG haplotypes, the factor VLeiden-mutation, and pediatric VT and thromboembolic stroke (TS) in 2 independent study samples. Association analysis revealed that the FGA-H1 and FGG-H2 h...