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Establishing a Standardized Clinical Assessment Tool of Pathologic and Prosthetic Hand Function: Normative Data, Reliability, and Validity
No full textABSTRACT. Light CM, Chappell PH, Kyberd PJ. Establishing a standardized clinical assessment tool of pathologic and prosthetic hand function: normative data, reliability, and validity. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2002;83:776-83. Objective: To develop a new assessment procedure, the Southampton Hand Assessment Procedure (SHAP), that allows contextual results of hand function to be obtained readily in a clinical environment. Design: Reliability (test-retest, interrater) and validity (criterion, content) of new assessment procedure against standard medical outcome measure techniques. Setting: Normative data collected in a university laboratory. Participants: Twenty-four volunteers selected on the basis of optimum hand function using these criteria: age (range, 18-25y), and no adverse hand trauma, neurologic condition, or disabling effects of the upper limb. Interventions: Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures: The normative control group was assessed for variability, and the procedure measured in terms of interrater and test-retest reliability. The absence of a direct comparison prevents a criterion standard from being established; however, content validity was shown by expert peer review. Results: The control group data were shown to be multivariate gaussian; test-retest and interrater reliability were demonstrated at the 95% confidence level. The content validity was demonstrated by peer panel approval. Conclusions: Results of the control group established the statistical integrity of SHAP. Clinical trials are underway, although more extensive use of the procedure is advocated in primary care and rehabilitation centers where physiotherapy and occupational therapy are actively used in hand rehabilitation
Algorithmic control of a multifunction hand prosthesis
No full textResearch in the Control Engineering Group at Southampton University has established and demonstrated the principles of hierarchical control of multiple degree of freedom prosthetic hands. Through a number of prototypes the concept has been refined. The control is made as simple as possible. The user issues instruction via a single electromyographic channel and an electronic controller manages the grip posture and tension, adapting it to the most suitable shape, depending on the outline and size of the object. The details of the object are gained from sensors upon and within the artificial hand. Thus the conscious control by the user is minimised. The most recent work, which forms the substance of this thesis, is based on experiments using two different prostheses, controlled in the same hierarchical way. The first hand is a specially designed four degree of freedom prosthesis. Attention was paid in the design to ease of manufacture and potential production of the device. This prosthesis was controlled by an integrated circuit microprocessor and manual tasks were performed by the author, using the hand upon a splint, mounted on his own arm. An additional hand was based on a commercial single degree of freedom hand. The entire system including the electronic controller was made portable so that it could be worn in the field by the user of a conventional artificial hand and an assessment of its practicality made. The transducers used were adapted and improved for application upon the hands and sensors designed to detect both object contact and slip was developed. In addition different techniques for detecting object movement were explored. The resulting experience allowed a nunber of recommendations to be made concerning the future research in prosthetics as well as more general applications for an adaptive hand.</p
Author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
843779_A1_supp_mat – Supplemental material for Clinical evaluation of the refined clothespin relocation test: A pilot study
No full textSupplemental material, 843779_A1_supp_mat for Clinical evaluation of the refined clothespin relocation test: A pilot study by Ali Hussaini, Wendy Hill and Peter Kyberd in Prosthetics and Orthotics International</p
843779_Appendix_A2_RCRT_GradingCompensations_(2) – Supplemental material for Clinical evaluation of the refined clothespin relocation test: A pilot study
No full textSupplemental material, 843779_Appendix_A2_RCRT_GradingCompensations_(2) for Clinical evaluation of the refined clothespin relocation test: A pilot study by Ali Hussaini, Wendy Hill and Peter Kyberd in Prosthetics and Orthotics International</p
843779_A3_supp_mat – Supplemental material for Clinical evaluation of the refined clothespin relocation test: A pilot study
No full textSupplemental material, 843779_A3_supp_mat for Clinical evaluation of the refined clothespin relocation test: A pilot study by Ali Hussaini, Wendy Hill and Peter Kyberd in Prosthetics and Orthotics International</p
Moral Good, the Beatific Vision, and God’s Kingdom Writings by Germain Grisez and Peter Ryan, S.J.. Edited by Peter J. Weigel
No full textFor close to half a century, the work of Germain Grisez has been highly influential, and his writings continue to receive considerable attention from philosophers and theologians of diverse viewpoints. His co-author for this work is the professor and noted moral theologian Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J., currently the executive director of the Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). These two eminent scholars explore fundamental questions about Christian eschatology, moral theory, the purpose of human life, and the promise of human fulfilment. The authors examine Christian teaching on the final destiny of persons, investigating the meaning of God's kingdom, the hope of the beatific vision, and the centrality of moral goodness and divine grace in one's final end. This work is an ideal source for students, scholars, ministers and lay persons interested in basic questions of Christian theology, the philosophy of religion, ethical theory, and Catholic doctrin
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Lunchtime Talk with Author and Attorney Peter Godwin
No full textAuthor and attorney Peter Godwin gave a lunchtime talk about the topics discussed in his book, The Fear, which focuses on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe under the rule of Robert Mugabe
An essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell by Peter Pullman
No full textThis is an essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell written by Peter Pullman, a jazz scholar and author of Wail: The Life of Bud Powell (Brooklyn: Bop Changes, 2012).One image file (pdf)This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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