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Effectiveness of upper limb functional electrical stimulation after stroke fo...
Abstract Background Stroke can lead to significant impairment of upper limb function which affects performance of activities of daily living (ADL). Functional electrical... -
Developing a comprehensive definition of sustainability
Abstract Background Understanding sustainability is one of the significant implementation science challenges. One of the big challenges in researching sustainability is the lack... -
Acupuncture as an intervention to reduce alcohol dependency: a systematic rev...
Abstract Background Acupuncture has been widely used as a treatment for alcohol dependence. An updated and rigorously conducted systematic review is needed to establish the... -
Relationship between interpersonal trauma exposure and addictive behaviors: a...
Abstract Background The aim of this study was to systematically summarize knowledge on the association between exposure to interpersonal trauma and addictive behaviors. Extant... -
Theoretical investigation of polarization-insensitive data format conversion ...
Polarization-insensitive conversion of return-to-zero (RZ) ON-OFF keying (RZ-OOK) to RZ binary phase-shift keying (RZ-BPSK) has been achieved by cross-phase modulation (XPM) in... -
Incidence and burden of comorbid pain and depression in patients with chronic...
Abstract Background This study sheds important light on the association between sino-nasal symptoms and global quality of life in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis waiting... -
Continuing education for the prevention of mild cognitive impairment and Alzh...
Abstract Background Because of the enormous social and economic burden of disease, the prevention of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s-type dementia has become a major... -
Real-time imaging of action potentials in nerves using changes in birefringence
Polarized light can be used to measure the electrical activity associated with action potential propagation in nerves, as manifested in simultaneous dynamic changes in their... -
Estimation of treatment preference effects in clinical trials when some parti...
Abstract Background In the two-stage randomised trial design, a randomly sampled subset of study participants are permitted to choose their own treatment, while the remaining... -
Typical versus delayed speech onset influences verbal reporting of autistic i...
Abstract Background The distinction between autism and Asperger syndrome has been abandoned in the DSM-5. However, this clinical categorization largely overlaps with the... -
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation for pediatric epilepsy: stud...
Abstract Background Recently, clinical observations reported the potential benefit of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for pediatric epilepsy. Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve... -
Effectiveness of interventions to directly support food and drink intake in p...
Abstract Background Eating and drinking difficulties are recognised sources of ill health in people with dementia. In the EDWINA (Eating and Drinking Well IN dementiA)... -
A new questionnaire for measuring quality of life - the Stark QoL
Abstract Objective The Stark questionnaire measures health-related quality of life (QoL) using pictures almost exclusively. It is supplemented by a minimum of words. It... -
Exploring the interactions of a DNA aptamer with human serum albumins: simula...
Exploring the interactions of a DNA aptamer with human serum albumins: simulation studies -
Low back pain and limitations of daily living in Asia: longitudinal findings ...
Abstract Background Low back pain (LBP) is a major cause of disability throughout the world. However, longitudinal evidence to relate low back pain and functional limitations is... -
Pregnant womens’ concerns when invited to a randomized trial: a qualitative c...
Abstract Background Pregnant women were excluded from clinical trials until the 1990s, but the Food and Drug Administration nowadays allows - and even encourages - responsible... -
Validating self-reporting of hearing-related symptoms against pure-tone audio...
Objective: To validate self-reported hearing-related symptoms among personnel exposed to moderately high occupational noise levels at an obstetrics clinic. Design: Sensitivity,... -
What is the effect of sensory discrimination training on chronic low back pai...
Abstract Background Sensory discrimination training (SDT) for people with chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a novel approach based on theories of the cortical reorganization of... -
The acceptability and feasibility of a brief psychosocial intervention to red...
Abstract Background While opiate substitution therapy and injecting equipment provision (IEP) have reduced blood-borne viruses (BBV) among people who inject drugs (PWID), some... -
System identification of neural mechanisms from trial-by-trial motor behaviou...
System identification is an engineering technique used to build mathematical models of dynamic systems from observed data. In neuroscience research, system identification has...
