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Definitive Design of Interactive Hand and Wrist Exoskeleton for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation at Home
Get PDFBackground: Stroke recovery would benefit tremendously if patients could continue their therapy at home while, for many patients, this requires a therapy device that helps them to overcome the hyper-flexion of wrist/fingers that is limiting their ability to open and use their hand. Objective: To develop an interactive hand/wrist exoskeleton for post-stroke rehabilitation, that provides adaptive extension assistance at the wrist/fingers, interfaces with motivational games based on activities of daily-life, and can be used independently by patients at home. Methods: Passive/active hand/wrist exoskeletons have been developed that provide the required interaction/assistance. They have been evaluated by therapists in clinical settings and used at home by 24 patients in three countries (for six weeks, ~15 [minutes/day] of active gaming). We used those experiences to create the definitive design of the SCRIPT hand/wrist exoskeleton. Results: The hand/wrist exoskeleton is able to deal with joint misalignments by its wrist/finger mechanisms such as spring-loaded self-aligning double parallelogram at the wrist, and individual hinged cantilevers with adjustable springs at the fingers/thumb for both extension assistance. Potentiometers at the wrist/finger/thumb measure flexion/extension which provide the interaction torque/forces via multiplying by the stiffness of the springs. The signals are used to interact with motivation games and to measure therapy progress. Conclusion: Using technical/clinical evaluations, we improved on our initial design that had limitations in range of motion, measurement accuracy and maximum applicable assistance, while also reducing setup and device calibration times, since our definitive design of the interactive hand/wrist exoskeleton for post-stroke rehabilitation at home is a compromise between complexity and functionality
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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