... Routing forindividualswith multiple special needs Routing forindividualswith multiple special needs: users with cognitive impairments, wheelchair users, and users with low vision Chang et ... model, our prototype called U-Service DOG (Ubiquitous Service for Direction Guide) is designed to assist with navigation forindividualswith cognitive disabilities It consists of PDA user interfaces, ... [6] See Figure for three routes planned forindividualswith various disabilities In the prototype, the Dijkstra algorithm, a time-honored graph theoretic method [24] is applied for routing Oftentimes,...
... preserved Next, individualswith stroke walking on ground level with BWS were not compared to a control group such as individualswith stroke walking either with BWS on a treadmill or with no BWS ... Therefore, our hypothesis that six weeks of gait training with BWS during overground walking would improve walking performance of individualswith chronic stroke was partially confirmed with ... treadmill with BWS combined with overground without BWS [41] Our results suggest that training with BWS during overground walking effectively increases walking speed of individualswith chronic...
... Participants Eight able-bodied participants and two individualswith quadriplegia (one with a C1-C2 incomplete spinal cord injury and the other with severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy) participated ... groups that may benefit from this access pathway are people with high level spinal cord injuries resulting in quadriplegia and individualswith spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy or general hypotonia ... processed offline in MATLAB & Simulink (version R2007b) Participants were comfortably seated within a laboratory environment Those with disability remained in their wheelchairs The thermal camera was...
... now no studies have been performed on the effects of CC for patients with bipolar disorder The current study will be the first to implement CC for patients with bipolar disorder, and moreover, to ... multidisciplinary care for complex disorders and to date, three research projects show promising results with bipolar patients Bauer et al [12,13] have implemented a CC model for patients with bipolar disorder ... treatment programs can be of great value for patients with bipolar disorder, research on the effectiveness of such programs for patients with a bipolar disorder is scarce Collaborative Care (CC)...
... unable to drive, individualswith this visual acuity rarely suffer significant reductions in their ability to perform other functions and are, therefore, unlikely to be candidates for vision rehabilitation ... blindness” for the purposes of classifying individualswith low vision and blindness because the former terms more accurately reflect the fact that some residual vision remains in patients with these ... eligibility for vision rehabilitations services beyond the ICD-9-CM definitions for low vision and blindness (ICD-9-CM codes beginning with the prefix 3695) Medicare has suggested that individuals with...
... cellular therapy trials are indicated with a blue star, the vaccine therapy trials with a red circle, and the combined cellular and vaccine therapy trials with a white triangle Cellular Therapy ... treatment with CMVALT with or without CMV-DCs pulsed with pp65 mRNA Patients will also receive standard of care radiotherapy and TMZ Interestingly, patients whose tumor recurs following experimental therapy ... diagnosed (NCT00905060) patients with GBM Enrolled patients are being vaccinated with the heat shock protein peptide complex (HSPPC)-96 with or without concurrent TMZ therapy Heat shock proteins (HSP)...
... adversely affect HRQoL among individualswith type diabetes mellitus [8] Yet, there is little information on HRQoL among individuals who not have diabetes but are at risk for diabetes While several ... significantly associated with HRQoL after adjusting for sociodemographic factors (Table 3) Compared with type diabetes respondents, the low-risk respondents (9.02 for VAS score and 0.049 for index score; ... (3.18 for VAS score and 0.009 for index score; p = 0.008) reported higher EQ-5D scores The model F statistic was 94.0 for VAS score and 83.6 for index score, and the model r-square was 0.16 for...
... walking at selfselected and comfortable speeds, with and without the use of BWS, forindividualswith chronic stroke We suggest that individualswith stroke walking with BWS on ground level would ... goals of a rehabilitation program forindividualswith stroke [1-3] Among the different strategies of gait training for these individuals, the use of treadmill with partial body weight support ... a possible alternative strategy for gait training Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate individualswith chronic stroke, walking overground with BWS More specifically, we analyzed...
... remediation therapyfor schizophrenia and http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/6/1/14 adapted and expanded to form the core of the intervention Methods Participants Four patients signed up for ... the intervention For example, a monitoring form was used to report patient performance (scoring 1– poor/good) and exercises were timed However, this was found to be ineffective without a sufficient ... change and therapy in anorexia nervosa Journal of Psychiatric Research 1996, 30:401-410 Casper RC, Hedeker D, McClough JF: Personality dimensions in eating disorders and their relevance for subtyping...
... Flanders AE, Gaspar LE, Schell MC, et al: Whole brain radiation therapywith or without stereotactic radiosurgery boost for patients with one to three brain metastases: phase III results of the ... 363(9422):1665-72 Kondziolka D, Patel A, Lunsford LD, Kassam A, Flickinger JC: Stereotactic radiosurgery plus whole brain radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for patients with multiple brain metastases ... Bieri S, Combescure C, Pica A, Weber DC: Whole brain radiotherapy with a conformational external beam radiation boost for lung cancer patients with 1-3 brain metastasis: a multi institutional study...
... the patients with chemotherapy was 3.659 times higher than that of the patients without chemotherapy (p = 0.042) In these 13 patients receiving chemotherapy, the number of cases with tumor size ... combined chemotherapy with NVB and DDP One patient with one paratrachea lymph node metastasis received SBRT Five patients received SBRT of lung metastases One patient received SBRT for bilateral ... 2-year local control rates were 75% and 60% for tumor ≤3 cm; 84% and 71% for tumor sized 3~5 cm; 55% and 14.6% for tumor sized 5~7 cm; and 45%, 21% in those with tumor size of >7 cm (Figure 2) 25...
... the variables listed above, the random-forest method was able to correctly classify 659/784 individuals: 473/509 individualswith HIV RNA < 500 copies/ ml, for a specificity of 0.93 [95% confidence ... conjunction with a regression model For example, building a logistic model using a backwards stepwise selection approach with Akaike’s information criteria upon our training data resulted in a model with ... copies/ml [12] Results The study population was comprised of 1,568 individuals; 784 were used for the random-forest analysis and 784 for the validation set Study population characteristics are shown...
... tumor without mitotic figures or necrosis and with positive immunohistochemical stains for synaptophysin, neuron-specific enolase, and chromogranin A, as well as strong positive staining for ACTH ... while being treated with octreotide LAR for residual ectopic EAS Case presentation A 25-year-old Arabic woman presented to the emergency department of our medical facility with rapid onset of ... lymph nodes, with permanent post-surgical changes at the basal portion of the left lung The result of a concomitant test for urine 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid was 6.9 mg/day, which is within normal...
... evidence base for group CBT is much less strong than it is for individual CBT [7] This paper is based on a feasibility and pilot study of a group-based intervention in primary care for women with depression ... above, further information about the study was given over the telephone For those still interested after the telephone conversation, detailed written information and consent forms were sent and ... groups as allocated to treatment, with adjustment for PHQ-9 baseline scores Similar regression models were used for secondary outcomes All these analyses were repeated for primary and secondary outcome...
... providing care for patients with severe personalitydisorder The present study is, as to the best of our knowledge, the first to examine Collaborative Care for patients with severe personality disorders ... indicative for positive or negative outcomes Informal carers Participants Patients This Collaborative Care Program is developed to improve the quality of care for patients with severe personality disorders ... Nadort M, Arntz A: Outpatient psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: randomized trial of schema-focused therapy vs transference-focused psychotherapy Arch Gen Psychiatry 2006, 63:649-658...
... (2008) Cognitive-behavioural therapyforpersonality disorders, Psychiatry, 7, (3), 117-120 11 Gunderson, J.G & Gabbard, G.O (Coords.) (2000) Psychotherapy of personality disorders Washington, DC.: ... more subscales with high scores The number of personality disorders was also analyzed in every subject (figure 2) Some subjects in homeless integration treatment had no personalitydisorder (19.5% ... case, the sample (homeless people for a long time), has an important organic impairment Analyzing the correlations between personality disorders, with organic and disorders (table 5), we conclude...
... of personality pathology The DSMIV lists 10 different personality disorders (plus appendix disorders for further study) [8], and the SAPAS may have greater salience for some specific areas of personality ... between the SAPAS and number of personalitydisorder criteria controlling for various confounders, one for each cluster, and one for total number of personalitydisorder criteria In each regression, ... personality disorders equally well It does not correlate highly with antisocial, histrionic and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and with trait narcissism Some other correlates of personality...
... diagnosis of cannabis use disorder is set INCANT is explained, and youth and parent are given study information materials and informed consent forms to read before coming back for the second recruitment ... treatment manual [5] The potential for recruiting cases for treatment and for study purposes appeared to be promising, and substance urine tests were accepted by virtually all families considered ... or behavioural disorder requiring inpatient treatment Parents (and therefore cases) are ineligible if unable to understand the local language or attend sessions Informed consent for study participation...
... criteria for the MATISSE study Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria Aged 18 years or over Already receiving Art Therapy or another arts therapy (Music Therapy, Drama Therapy, or Dance/Movement Therapy) ... intervention effect within therapists In our Crawford et al BMC Psychiatry 2010, 10:65 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/10/65 recent trial of music therapyfor people with schizophrenia ... effectiveness of group Art Therapy compared to an active control treatment for people with schizophrenia In comparing outcomes of those referred to group Art Therapywith those of people referred...
... Training Manual for treating Borderline PersonalityDisorder New York: The Guilford Press; 1993 Yeomans FE, Clarkin JF, Kernberg OF: A primer for transference focused psychotherapy for the borderline ... ME: Schema therapy: A practioner's guide New York: Guilford; 2003 Bateman A, Fonagy P: Psychotherapy for borderline personalitydisorder Mentalization-based treatment New York: Oxford University ... borderline personalitydisorder severity index Journal of PersonalityDisorder 2003, 17(Suppl 1):45-59 Giesen-Bloo JH, Wachters LM, Schouten E, Arntz A: Assessment of borderline personalitydisorder with...