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Content and effectiveness of community-based rehabilitation on quality of life in people post-stroke: A systematic review with meta-analysis
No full textContent and effectiveness of community-based rehabilitation on quality of life in people post-stroke: A systematic review with meta-analysis
No full textCONCORDANCE BETWEEN SELF-REPORT AND PERFORMANCE-BASED MANUAL ABILITY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC STROKE USING THE ABILHAND-STROKE QUESTIONNAIRE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
No full textBenin questionnaire is reliable as self-report administration procedure to measure manual ability in everyday activities in people with chronic stroke. Background and Aims: The aim of the study was to assess the external and internal compatibility of the Biometrics E-LINK EP9 evaluation system device in the area of hand grip and pinch strength in the Polish population. Methods: The testing of hand grip and pinch strength was carried out among 122 healthy students. Two examiners performed hand grip and pinch strength measurements with a Biometrics E-LINK device. Measurements were made for the right and left hands. The same people were tested again two weeks later, under the same conditions. The scores of one rater on the first and second tests were compared for reproducibility, and the scores of the two raters were compared to assess the reliability of the instrument. Results: The measurements were found to be highly consistent both between the investigators and between the tests in the hand grip dynamometer test. High values of Pearson's correlation coefficient equal to and close to 1, interclass correlation coefficient (ICC) >0.9 and Cronbach's alpha coefficient>0.9 were shown. Using the pinchmeter to assess pinch strength, high values of Pearson's correlation coefficient close to 1, interclass correlation coefficient>0.9 were shown, and taking into account alternative measurements of consistency using Cronbach's alpha coefficient>0.9, this proves high consistency of the measurements both between the two investigators as well as in time intervals and tests performed by the same investigator. Conclusions: The measurements made with the Biometrics E-link show high internal and external consistency in hand grip and pinch strength assessment. Biometrics E-link EP9 can be recommended for daily clinical practice
CONCORDANCE BETWEEN SELF-REPORT AND PERFORMANCE-BASED MANUAL ABILITY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC STROKE USING THE ABILHAND-STROKE QUESTIONNAIRE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
No full textBenin questionnaire is reliable as self-report administration procedure to measure manual ability in everyday activities in people with chronic stroke. Background and Aims: The aim of the study was to assess the external and internal compatibility of the Biometrics E-LINK EP9 evaluation system device in the area of hand grip and pinch strength in the Polish population. Methods: The testing of hand grip and pinch strength was carried out among 122 healthy students. Two examiners performed hand grip and pinch strength measurements with a Biometrics E-LINK device. Measurements were made for the right and left hands. The same people were tested again two weeks later, under the same conditions. The scores of one rater on the first and second tests were compared for reproducibility, and the scores of the two raters were compared to assess the reliability of the instrument. Results: The measurements were found to be highly consistent both between the investigators and between the tests in the hand grip dynamometer test. High values of Pearson's correlation coefficient equal to and close to 1, interclass correlation coefficient (ICC) >0.9 and Cronbach's alpha coefficient>0.9 were shown. Using the pinchmeter to assess pinch strength, high values of Pearson's correlation coefficient close to 1, interclass correlation coefficient>0.9 were shown, and taking into account alternative measurements of consistency using Cronbach's alpha coefficient>0.9, this proves high consistency of the measurements both between the two investigators as well as in time intervals and tests performed by the same investigator. Conclusions: The measurements made with the Biometrics E-link show high internal and external consistency in hand grip and pinch strength assessment. Biometrics E-link EP9 can be recommended for daily clinical practice
Physiotherapy practices in acute and sub-acute stroke in a low resource country: A prospective observational study in Benin
No full textPhysiotherapy is highly recommended for early recovery from stroke. This study aimed to document physiotherapy practices for people with acute and early sub-acute stroke in Benin.We would like to thank Beninese Physiotherapists for their assistance with participant recruitment and all study participants
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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