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2025-01-31 Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate
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A Criterion Reference Validity Study for the Modified Thomas Test for Hip Extension Mobility Using Three-Dimensional Motion Capture
Full text linkPurpose: Hip region extension mobility is commonly assessed in physical therapy practice, most commonly performed using the modified Thomas test (MTT). The validity of the MTT using 3D motion capture methods has been evaluated in only a study evaluating only healthy young males. Further, this study utilized a blood pressure cuff at 60 mm Hg under the lumbar lordosis to control the pelvis and trunk, further modifying the MTT and limiting clinical translation. Therefore, the purpose of this ongoing 3D motion capture study was to acquire criterion reference data for the traditional modified Thomas test without use of blood pressure cuff and in a more heterogeneous sample including both males and females as well as those with a history of knee surgeries. We hypothesized that moderate strength correlations would be observed between the tests.
Subjects: 17 participants with knee extension deficits per goniometric screening (11 females, 10 post-surgical, height = 1.75±0.11 m, weight = 80.5±12.5 kg, age = 22.8±1.9 years) completed all testing.
Methods/Materials: An established 3D anatomical marker set was used to establish the position and orientation of the pelvis, thigh, shanks and foot segments in static standing. In order to track the pelvis segment during the MTT, the associated tracking marker set was altered such that the iliac crests rather than a sacral marker were used. For the MTT, the traditional method by Kendall and McCreary was used. In brief, the participant stood perched on the edge of a plinth and then reclined with assistance. They grasped the contralateral limb in full flexion. The examiner then lowered the cantilevered test limb into maximal hip extension for the goniometric measure angle measure. The 3D data and the goniometer data were acquired during the same trials. Pearson product moment correlation coefficients were used for the criterion validation assessment.
Results: The correlation coefficient between the goniometric and reference 3D joint angle during the MTT was r = 0.42.
Conclusion: A moderate strength correlation was observed for the traditional MTT with criterion reference data from a 3D Euler angle data.
Clinical Relevance: The use of MTT in traditional clinical practice should be questioned. Further modifications and/or alternative assessments for hip joint extensibility should be explored.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dpt_symposium/1055/thumbnail.jp
Discourses on Democracy and Human Rights in Africa: Contextualizing the Relevance of Human Rights to Developing Countries
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Pathologies in De-Bureaucratic Public Organizations in Nigeria
Full text linkBecause of the nouveau and rapidly growing interests in, and acceptance of, de-bureaucratization (popularly called deregulation in Nigeria), as a more attractive organization concept than bureaucratization, the central concern of this paper is an identification and objective analysis of bureau-pathologies in de-bureaucratic public organizations in Nigeria, in response to those of bureaucratic organizations which have already been analysed in the literature. The major and prevalent bureau-pathologies identified and analyzed are inconsistency and unpredictability, informality and denials, unlimited or uncircumscribed flexibility, personalization, limitation of de-categorization, laziness, and goal displacement. Their effects can be summarized as the prevalence of worrying degree of arbitrariness which distorts effective operations in Nigerian public organizations. The paper recommends the promotion of a higher level of certainty in Nigerian public organizations, through more effective and strict implementation of the avowed limited or adequate rules available
The Choice of Monetary Targets in Periods of Structural Adjustment: The Case of Nigeria
Full text linkThis paper examines the choice of monetary targets in Nigeria since the introduction of the Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) in 1986. We employed cointegration vector error correction methodology using quarterly in order to ascertain if M2 targeting over Ml targeting was a prudent monetary policy rule. We tested for the stability of real Ml and real M2 money demand functions and found the former to be an unstable during the SAP period. Both the CUSUM and CUSUMSQ tests confirmed the stability of the short- and long-run parameters of the real M2 money demand function but not for real M1. The stability of the real M2 money demand function supports its choice as an intermediate target. Furthermore, we found that the actual real M2 monetary growth deviated from the annual target rates, which indicated that the Central Bank of Nigeria did not strongly commit to its annual M2 money growth targets. Further tests showed that the deviations of actual real M2 growth from the annual target growth rates affected real GDP growth and inflation rate adversely during the period