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Current State of Postural Research - Beyond Automatic Behavior
No full textThis eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contac
Computer-guided mental practice in neurorehabilitation
No full textMotor imagery is the mental simulation of a movement without motor output. In recent years, there has been growing interest towards the application of motor imagery-based training, or “mental practice”, in stroke rehabilitation. We have developed a virtual reality prototype (the VR Mirror) to support patients in performing mental practice. The VR Mirror displays a three-dimensional simulation of the movement to be imagined, using data acquired from the healthy arm. We tested the system with nine post-stroke patients with chronic motor impairment of the upper limb. After eight weeks of training with the VR Mirror, remarkable improvement was noted in three cases, slight improvement in two cases, and no improvement in four cases. All patients showed a good acceptance of the procedure, suggesting that virtual reality technology can be successfully integrated in mental practice interventions
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
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
Design and Usability of a System for the Study of Head Orientation
Full text linkThe ability to control head orientation relative to the body is a multi-sensory process that mainly depends on three sensory pathways namely, proprioceptive, vestibular, and visual. A system to study the sensory integration of head orientation was developed and tested. A test seat with five-point harness was assembled to provide the passive postural support. A light-weight head-mount display (HMD) was designed for mounting multi-axis accelerometers and a mini- CCD camera to provide the visual input to virtual reality (VR) goggles with 39° horizontal field of view. A digitally generated sinusoidal signal was delivered to a motor-driven computer-controlled sled on a 6m linear railing system. A data acquisition system was designed to collect acceleration data. A pilot study was conducted to test the system. Four young healthy subjects were seated with their trunks fixed to the seat. Subjects received a sinusoidal anterior-posterior translation with peak acceleration of 0.06g at 0.1Hz and 0.12g at 0.2Hz, 0.5Hz and 1.1Hz. Four sets of visual conditions were randomly presented along with the translation. These conditions included eyes open looking forward, backward, and sideways, and also eyes closed. Linear acceleration data were collected from linear accelerometers placed on the head, trunk and seat and were processed using Matlab. The head motion was analyzed using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to derive gain and phase of head pitch acceleration relative to seat linear acceleration. A randomization test for two independent variables was used to test significance of visual and inertial effects on response gain and phase shifts. Results show that the gain was close to one with no significant difference among visual conditions across frequencies. The phase was shown to be dependent on the head strategy each subject used. The ability to control head orientation relative to the body is a multi-sensory process that mainly depends on three sensory pathways namely, proprioceptive, vestibular, and visual. A system to study the sensory integration of head orientation was developed and tested. A test seat with five-point harness was assembled to provide the passive postural support. A light-weight head-mount display (HMD) was designed for mounting multi-axis accelerometers and a mini- CCD camera to provide the visual input to virtual reality (VR) goggles with 39° horizontal field of view. A digitally generated sinusoidal signal was delivered to a motor-driven computer-controlled sled on a 6m linear railing system. A data acquisition system was designed to collect acceleration data. A pilot study was conducted to test the system. Four young healthy subjects were seated with their trunks fixed to the seat. Subjects received a sinusoidal anterior-posterior translation with peak acceleration of 0.06g at 0.1Hz and 0.12g at 0.2Hz, 0.5Hz and 1.1Hz. Four sets of visual conditions were randomly presented along with the translation. These conditions included eyes open looking forward, backward, and sideways, and also eyes closed. Linear acceleration data were collected from linear accelerometers placed on the head, trunk and seat and were processed using Matlab. The head motion was analyzed using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to derive gain and phase of head pitch acceleration relative to seat linear acceleration. A randomization test for two independent variables was used to test significance of visual and inertial effects on response gain and phase shifts. Results show that the gain was close to one with no significant difference among visual conditions across frequencies. The phase was shown to be dependent on the head strategy each subject used.Mechanical Engineerin
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