6 research outputs found
The political economy of the Lom� Convention and the relations between the European Economic Community, and Africa, the Caribbean and the pacific states: A study in the political economy of north-south relations, 1982
No full textMotor Imagery ability in adults with neurological conditions compared to healthy individuals: A systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textBackground and Purpose: Growing evidence suggests effects of motor imagery interventions in neurorehabilitation. However, neurological impairment may be related to deficits in motor imagery ability. We aimed to summarize the evidence on differences across motor imagery ability components following Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Parkinson’s disease (PD), or Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Methods: Six databases were searched up to February 2024. Studies comparing adults with these conditions to healthy individuals were included. Two reviewers independently selected studies and assessed Risk of Bias. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were applied. Motor imagery generation, maintenance, and manipulation, assessed through questionnaires, mental chronometry, and mental rotation tasks respectively, were the outcomes.
Results: Fifty-two studies with low or moderate bias were included (Stroke: n=26; TBI: n=1; PD: n=14; MS: n=11). Meta-analyses revealed a moderate difference in Stroke for generation of kinesthetic motor imagery and a moderate difference in PD for visual motor imagery. For imagery maintenance, qualitative syntheses indicated contradictory evidence for Stroke (although it was stronger towards a difference), with PD and MS showing differences with moderate to strong evidence. Meta-analyses showed a large and moderate difference in the accuracy measures of imagery manipulation in Stroke and PD, respectively; qualitative analysis also supported this in MS. For TBI, a limited number of studies impeded performing a formal synthesis of the evidence.
Discussion and Conclusions: Differences in specific motor imagery ability domains may be present in people with neurological conditions of different aetiologies. Clinicians should consider assessing all three components before applying motor imagery interventions
International economic order and the political economy of foreign investment: a study in imperialism and unequal development, 1979
No full textThe major premise of this study is that a relationship exists between international economic order, imperialism and unequal development. The nature of this relationship is that the international economic order is the legal political superstructure as well as the economic arrangement that governs international political economy relations. This economic arrangement was formed and structured at the end of the second world war under the hegemony of the United States. The development of this postwar international economic order was accompanied by economic arrangements that were based on trade, aid, investment policies and monetary system. These four functional areas were structured within the framework of imperialist institutions like the IMF, IBRD and GATT. By operating within the structure of these institutions the economic order has become the major promoting and accelerating factor of imperialism and subsequently of underdevelopment. The study also suggests that of the four functional areas of the economic order private foreign investment is the most powerful link between imperialism and underdevelopment. This important role of foreign invest�ment is derived from the fact that it functions within the framework of MNCs. And since the activities of MNCs touch every aspect of the national and international, social and politico-economic system, foreign invest-ment has become the international mechanism of control that organically connects the two processes of development and underdevelopment. The analysis of the demand for a NIEO reveals that the demand by third world leaders was precipitated by two factors: the failure of political independence to bring economic prosperity and their frustra�tion, in about two decades of largely fruitless efforts to obtain inter�national consideration and implementation of their proposals for equitable distribution of international resources. The finding reveals that despite the conflict on a NIEO there is no prospect that the NIEO will be implemented. And if it does, it would not enhance the developmentof third world peoples. Instead it will result in a new and more advanced form of imperialist exploitation of the people through a new unequal international divisio of labor and form of dependency that will emerge. The reason is that an internal development geared to the NIEO will strengthen the position of the priviledged dominant classes who are in alliance with the monopolies of the center and subjugate the masses furthe to capitalist exploitation and oppression. The study concludes that underdevelopment can not be eliminated through the diffusion of technology and institutional values from the advanced capitalist countries. The process that will lead to genuine development that is capable of creating the production base sufficient to serve the entire population must take an introversion character, be socialist and self-reliant
Motor Imagery ability in adults with neurological conditions compared to healthy individuals: A systematic review
No full textRepository associated with the preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yftas. This manuscript is currently under review in an academic journal
Motor Imagery ability in adults with neurological conditions compared to healthy individuals: A systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textRepository associated with the preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yftas. This manuscript is currently under review in an academic journal
The Nigerian working class and politics: an analysis of trade unionism in Nigeria 1940 to 1988, 1989
No full textThis dissertation has two major objectives: one, to analyze the experience of organized labor in relation with the Nigerian political class, and two, to study the opinions of Nigerian workers on whether socialism would be viable in the 1990s. These two objectives were investigated by seeking the perceptions, views and attitudes of workers about the politics, economy and general welfare. The study was carried out through the use of an accidential survey based on local conditions. Interviews were conducted and questionnaires were administered. Labor leaders were interviewed and questionnaires were administered to two categories of Nigerian workers: those who as at the time of the survey were members and those who were non-members of trade unions. Both primary and secondary sources were utilized. The findings showed that Nigerian workers were exploited and oppressed in both pre and post independence Nigeria-under both civilian and military regimes. In addition to the exploitation and oppression of workers, labor movements were subordinated under the military regimes. However, during the short period of the oil boom, the relationship between the military regime and labor was good as exemplified by the Adebo and Udoji awards. Then low levels of unemployment, abundance of public goods at relatively affordable prices coupled with government funding of the labor movement made the relation between labor and government cordial. But the present economic situation has created an uneasy relationship between labor movements and government. Total subordination has resulted in the frustration of workers and the labor union. In conclusion, mistrust was the kindest word with which the workers characterize their view of the political class and union leaders in the survey responses. The question about the desirability of socialism in spite of its egalitarian principles was rejected by the workers surveyed. The study concludes, therefore, that ideology does not matter as much as concerns for a leadership totally committed to providing basic human needs to the masses. In other words, Nigerian workers are more preoccupied with the acquisition of basic human needs than with ideology
