173 research outputs found
THE DIGITAL O&P WORKSHOP
No full textDigitalisation is the megatrend in healthcare, not only since the pandemic. We are two European digital health experts and industry leaders in the field of orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) and in this article we explored what are the underlying trends driving the adoption of digitalisation for customisation of prosthetics & orthotics. We showed that several trends in 3D image capture (input step), 3D modelling (processing step) and 3D printing (output step) currently converge and thus fuel the rapid transformation of the O&P industry. In short outlooks, we rated the probability and timing of adoption rates across the upcoming couple of years. We furthermore reviewed the impact of boundary conditions set by regulators as well as the reimbursement system. Towards the end of this article, we outlined a digital scenario of the near future by following around an orthotist during her work. We finished with a call-to-action targeting regulators, payors, prosthetists/orthotists, and patients to enable such a desirable future.
Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cpoj/article/view/36349/28332
How To Cite: Opitz M, Fröhlingsdorf P. The digital O&P workshop. Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal. 2021; Volume 4, Issue 2, No.15. https://doi.org/10.33137/cpoj.v4i2.36349
Corresponding Author: Manuel Opitz, MECURIS GmbH, Lindwurmstraße 11, 80337 München, Germany.E-Mail: [email protected] number: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6098-188
Martin Opitz’ "New Year’s Gift with Song”
No full textAt the turn of the year 1623/24, Martin Opitz published a song of praise honouring Christ’s birth in German Alexandrine verse: Lobgesang Uber den Frewdenreichen Geburtstag Unseres Herren und Heilandes Jesu Christi [Song of praise about the joyous birthday of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ]. This example of erudition is also very personal: The author speaks about his troubles during the gruesome Thirty Years War. It concludes with a Latin Sapphic ode petitioning for absolution and peace. Scholars have never appreciated the ode’s function: It derives its full meaning from the intended melody, which was well-known to the dedicatee.
Amazingly, many poets copied Opitz in writing epic-dramatic poems including song(s) to honour friends or superiors with a New Year’s dedication; they imitated his motifs and even his title by way of “aemulatio”. When Opitz’ tendency towards dramatic representation and visualisation is enhanced, we find the work comes close to another musical epic-dramatic genre, the actus. We encounter this in several academic communities, its finest example being a hardly known musical composition by Johann Rosenmüller to words by Johann Ziegler.Non UBCUnreviewedFacult
Hypothesizing about Reading Recovery
No full textProfessor Opitz\u27s article is one of two in this special issue not written by a Reading Recovery trained teacher. The author has examined the literature on Reading Recovery and attempted to puzzle out the reason(s) for its success. Trained Reading Recovery teachers will find both points of agreement and disagreement, and many points on which to establish a discussion. Opitz writes, ...we do not, I believe, know why the program works. Yet as Clay suggests in this issue, answers are learned in the year-long and continuing contact training sessions. Our understanding of why the program works does not come from information or research alone, but from reflec tive practice. Reading Recovery teachers continue to re flect on their learning and practice, and implicit in the whole Reading Recovery process is ongoing research and evaluation. We have chosen the article because it reflects questions raised by those who have searched the literature on Reading Recovery and are contemplat ing involvement in the program. Professor Opitz\u27s hy pothesizing is based on wide reading in the literature about Reading Recovery, and should generate many powerful questions for the dialogue between trained Reading Recovery personnel and educators considering program implementation
SÍNDROME DE SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ (SLO). PRESENTACIÓN DE UN CASO
No full textEl Síndrome de Smith-Lemli-Opitz (SLO) es uno de los múltiples síndromes de malformaciones congénitas arquetípicas. El reciente descubrimiento de la causa bioquímica de SLO y la consiguiente redefinición de SLO como un error innato del metabolismo del colesterol han dado lugar a nuevas e importantes posibilidades de tratamiento para los pacientes afectados. El papel del colesterol en la formación de hormonas esteroides también ha proporcionado una posible explicación de las características del comportamiento anormal de SLO
5 kHz Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation: Lack of Cortical Excitability Changes When Grouped in a Theta Burst Pattern
No full textBackground: Suprathreshold transcranial single pulse electrical stimulation (tES) is painful and not applicable in a repetitive mode to induce plastic after-effects. Objective: In order to circumvent this pain problem, we applied here a 5 kHz transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) theta burst protocol with a field intensity of up to 10 mA to the primary motor cortex (M1). Furthermore, we were interested in finding out whether electrical theta burst stimulation (eTBS) is able to induce lasting after-effects on cortical plasticity. Methods: Three different eTBS protocols were applied at 5 mA in a sham controlled, double blinded cross-over design on the M1 region of seventeen healthy subjects during the first part of the study. The second study part consists of three different eTBS protocols ranging from 5 mA to 10 mA and 1 ms to 5 ms sinusoidal bursts, applied to the M1 region of 14 healthy subjects. Results: We were able to apply all eTBS protocols in a safe manner, with only six subjects reporting mild side effects related to the stimulation. However, no eTBS protocol induced lasting effects on muscle- evoked potential (MEP) amplitudes when compared to sham stimulation. Significant inhibition of MEP amplitude was only seen in the lower intensity protocols as compared to baseline. Conclusion: eTBS is a safe method to apply high frequency tACS with up to 10 mA intensity. Future studies need to explore the parameter space to a larger extent in order to assure efficacy
Rehabilitación oral de un paciente pediátrico con síndrome de Smith-Lemli-Opitz bajo anestesia general ambulatoria
No full textSmith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive hereditary disease. It is caused
by a mutation in the 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase (DHCR7) gene producing hypocholesterolemia,
and consequence mental retardation, delayed growth, microcephaly, micrognathia
and other systemic neurological and physical features. A case of a three-year-ninemonth-
old patient affected by this syndrome who attended the Pediatric Dental Clinic of
the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Dental School at Tijuana is presented. After
doing medical and dental records and because of his young age, multiple dental cavities,
uncontrollable behavior, mental retardation and medical status, oral rehabilitation under
general anesthesia was performed. The anesthesia procedure is detailed.El síndrome de Smith-Lemli-Opitz es una rara enfermedad hereditaria de transmisión autosómica
recesiva. Se caracteriza por presentar hipocolesterolemia como consecuencia
de una mutación del gen 7-deshidrocolesterol reductasa (7DHCR), lo que produce retraso
mental, retardo en el crecimiento, microcefalia, micrognatismo y otras anomalías neurológicas
sistémicas y físicas. Se presenta el caso de un paciente de tres años y nueve meses
afectado por este síndrome, quien acudió a la clínica de odontología pediátrica de la Facultad
de Odontología de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, donde se inició
historia médica y dental. Debido a su corta edad, la presencia de múltiples lesiones cariosas,
conducta incontrolable, retraso mental y compromiso sistémico, se decidió realizar la
rehabilitación oral del paciente bajo anestesia general, la cual se describe detalladamente
Oral Rehabilitation of a Pediatric Patient with Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome under Outpatient General Anesthesia
No full textEl síndrome de Smith-Lemli-Opitz es una rara enfermedad hereditaria de transmisión au¬tosómica recesiva. Se caracteriza por presentar hipocolesterolemia como consecuencia de una mutación del gen 7-deshidrocolesterol reductasa (7DHCR), lo que produce retraso mental, retardo en el crecimiento, microcefalia, micrognatismo y otras anomalías neuroló¬gicas sistémicas y físicas. Se presenta el caso de un paciente de tres años y nueve meses afectado por este síndrome, quien acudió a la clínica de odontología pediátrica de la Facul¬tad de Odontología de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, donde se inició historia médica y dental. Debido a su corta edad, la presencia de múltiples lesiones cario¬sas, conducta incontrolable, retraso mental y compromiso sistémico, se decidió realizar la rehabilitación oral del paciente bajo anestesia general, la cual se describe detalladamente.Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive hereditary disease. It is caused by a mutation in the 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase (DHCR7) gene producing hypocholesterolemia, and consequence mental retardation, delayed growth, microcephaly, micrognathia and other systemic neurological and physical features. A case of a three-year-nine-month-old patient affected by this syndrome who attended the Pediatric Dental Clinic of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Dental School at Tijuana is presented. After doing medical and dental records and because of his young age, multiple dental cavities, uncontrollable behavior, mental retardation and medical status, oral rehabilitation under general anesthesia was performed. The anesthesia procedure is detailed
Oral Rehabilitation of a Pediatric Patient with Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome under Outpatient General Anesthesia
No full textEl síndrome de Smith-Lemli-Opitz es una rara enfermedad hereditaria de transmisión au¬tosómica recesiva. Se caracteriza por presentar hipocolesterolemia como consecuencia de una mutación del gen 7-deshidrocolesterol reductasa (7DHCR), lo que produce retraso mental, retardo en el crecimiento, microcefalia, micrognatismo y otras anomalías neuroló¬gicas sistémicas y físicas. Se presenta el caso de un paciente de tres años y nueve meses afectado por este síndrome, quien acudió a la clínica de odontología pediátrica de la Facul¬tad de Odontología de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, donde se inició historia médica y dental. Debido a su corta edad, la presencia de múltiples lesiones cario¬sas, conducta incontrolable, retraso mental y compromiso sistémico, se decidió realizar la rehabilitación oral del paciente bajo anestesia general, la cual se describe detalladamente.Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive hereditary disease. It is caused by a mutation in the 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase (DHCR7) gene producing hypocholesterolemia, and consequence mental retardation, delayed growth, microcephaly, micrognathia and other systemic neurological and physical features. A case of a three-year-nine-month-old patient affected by this syndrome who attended the Pediatric Dental Clinic of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Dental School at Tijuana is presented. After doing medical and dental records and because of his young age, multiple dental cavities, uncontrollable behavior, mental retardation and medical status, oral rehabilitation under general anesthesia was performed. The anesthesia procedure is detailed
Recollection reduces unitised familiarity effect
No full textTwo types of encoding tasks have been employed in previous research to investigate the beneficial effect of unitisation on familiarity-based associative recognition (unitised familiarity effect), namely the compound task and the interactive imagery task. Here we show how these two tasks could differentially engage subsequent recollection-based associative recognition and consequently lead to the turn-on or turn-off of the unitised familiarity effect. In the compound task, participants studied unrelated word pairs as newly learned compounds. In the interactive imagery task, participants studied the same word pairs as interactive images. An associative recognition task was used in combination with the Remember/Know procedure to measure recollection-based and familiarity-based associative recognition. The results showed that the unitised familiarity effect was present in the compound task but was absent in the interactive imagery task. A comparison of the compound and the interactive imagery task revealed a dramatic increase in recollection-based associative recognition for the interactive imagery task. These results suggest that unitisation could benefit familiarity-based associative recognition; however, this effect will be eliminated when the memory trace formed is easily accessed by strong recollection without the need for a familiarity [email protected]
Peepholes to the world: reflections on tourism and travel books in the German Democratic Republic (1949-1989/90)
No full textTese de doutoramento, ramo em Ciências da Cultura, área Cultura AlemãO objecto de reflexão e análise deste trabalho é constituído pela complexa interrelação
entre o turismo, que no hemisfério dos países industrializados se transformou, durante a
segunda metade do século XX, num fenómeno de massas, e as suas múltiplas formas e modos
de mediatização num regime político e sistema sociocultural em que, ao longo dos quarenta
anos da sua existência, o multifacetado tópico da viagem desempenhou, a vários níveis, um
papel invulgarmente significativo. Em contraste com outras sociedades contemporâneas
situadas a ocidente da «Cortina de Ferro», cuja concepção liberal entendia o turismo e
contacto intercultural como um domínio apolítico por excelência, na República Democrática
Alemã (RDA) verificou-se nessa área um dirigismo estatal que se revestiu sempre de uma
grande relevância para a manutenção do sistema político e societal, dirigismo esse que, por
ironia da História, viria, por fim, a revelar-se um dos factores mais determinantes para a sua
própria implosão.
Partindo dessa peculiaridade do fenómeno da viagem num país que, apesar da
constelação bipolar da era da «Guerra Fria» e da existência do Muro de Berlim, não ficaria
completamente alheio ao processo da globalização, nomeadamente por via de uma crescente
mobilidade telemática que facilmente transpunha as fronteiras geopolíticas assim como pelo
«plano» de fomento do turismo no seio da «comunidade socialista», o presente estudo
propõe-se assim analisar, por um lado, as implicações concretas da «política de viagem»
sobre as práticas e os hábitos turísticos da população da extinta RDA e, por outro, as
respectivas repercussões ao nível das estratégias discursivas e dos mecanismos formais que
sustentam as representações «narrativas» da viagem no formato «bi-medial» (texto e imagem)
do livro que é aqui concebido como artefacto cultural e não como um produto apenas
literário.
Na introdução é ensaiada uma primeira aproximação teórica e metodológica quer à
multidimensionalidade do objecto de estudo quer à intencional diversidade e transversalidade
de um corpus de análise que, não se limitando à «bela» literatura de viagens da autoria de
escritores profissionais, justifica a concepção manifestamente transdisciplinar da presente dissertação. O capítulo seguinte, dedicado aos «Metatextos», consiste numa inventariação e
discussão críticas tanto das principais tendências que, durante as últimas décadas, têm
marcado a profícua área de investigação em torno da viagem e da literatura de viagens como
os (poucos) estudos que até ao momento se debruçaram especificamente sobre o género
literário do relato de viagens na RDA. No terceiro capítulo, significativamente intitulado de
«Contextos», elabora-se um quadro «policontextual» dos mais diversos factores
extra-literários que interferem indelevelmente nos próprios processos de encenação textual
e/ou imagética da viagem, tais como a legislação política relacionada com a viagem; as
diversas fases da evolução do turismo, o posicionamento do livro na paisagem mediática e as
implicações diversas do privilégio da viagem «além muro». No quarto capítulo, dedicado aos
«Textos e Imagens em Movimento» procede-se às análises formais e funcionais dos livros de
viagens propriamente ditos, distinguindo-se entre estes dois grupos: os dedicados à construção
discursiva e à mediatização do «Internacionalismo Socialista» e outros sobre viagens ao
«mundo não-socialista». Por fim, tecem-se ainda algumas breves reflexões sobre as viagens
na era pós-socialista.The purpose of the present study was to reflect on and analyse the complex
interrelationship between tourism, that in the hemisphere of the industrialized countries
underwent a transformation into a mass phenomenon in the second half of the 20th century,
and its multiple forms and modes of mediatisation by a political regime and a socio-cultural
system in which the multifaceted topic of travel played during the forty years of its existence
a rather unusual key role at various levels. In contrast to other contemporary societies situated
to the west of the «Iron Curtain» whose liberal conceptions understood tourism and
intercultural contact as belonging to the apolitical sphere, in the German Democratic Republic
(GDR) these issues were always kept under state control; thus, they were of considerable
importance to the maintenance of the political and societal system. Ironically, the control of
the state in these matters proved to be one of the key factors that led to the GDR´s implosion.
Despite the bipolar constellation of the «Cold War» era and the existence of the Berlin
Wall, the GDR would not remain completely alien to the globalization process largely due to
the increasing telematic mobility that easily crossed geopolitical boundaries and the «plan» to
encourage tourism among the «socialist community». This peculiarity of the travel
phenomenon in this country served as a starting point for the present study that aims to
analyse the concrete implications of the «travel policy» on the tourism practices and customs
of the population of the now extinct GDR on the one hand, the respective consequences on
the level of the discursive strategies and of the formal mechanisms that support the
«narrative» representations of travel in the bi-medial book format (text and image/photonarrative
book), here understood as cultural artefact and not merely as a literary product, on
the other.
The introduction presents a theoretical and methodological approach to both the
multi-dimensional character of the study object and the intentional diversity and transversality
of the corpus under analysis. Due to the fact that the corpus is not limited to travel literature
written by professional writers, the concept underlying the present thesis is inherently transdisciplinary. The next chapter is dedicated to «Metatexts» and consists of an
inventarisation and a critical discussion of both the main tendencies that during the last
decades have shaped the research field concerned with travel and travel literature and the
(few) studies that up to the present date have dealt specifically with the literary genre
dedicated to travel accounts in the GDR. The third chapter, significantly entitled «Contexts»,
provides a «poly-contextual» view of the most diverse extra-literary factors that undoubtedly
interfered in the processes of textual and/or imagetic staging of travel, such as political
legislation concerning travel; the various phases of the evolution of tourism, the place of the
book in the mediatic landscape and the implications of the privilege of travel «to the other
side of the Wall». The forth chapter is about «Texts and Images in Movement» and focuses
on the formal and functional analysis of the travel books themselves. These books were
grouped into two categories: those dedicated to discourse construction and to the
mediatisation of the «Socialist Internationalism» and those about travel to the «non-socialist
world».This study ends with some brief reflections on the travel theme in the post-socialist
era
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