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Effects of the Alternate Combination of Error-Enhancing and Active Assistive Robot-Mediated Treatments on Stroke Patients
No full textRobot-mediated therapy for paretic upper limb of chronic subjects following a neurological injury: a comparison between two approaches
No full textGoing 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
Robot-mediated therapy for paretic upper limb of chronic patients following neurological injury
No full textObjective: To evaluate the effectiveness of robot-mediated
therapy targeted at the motor recovery of the upper limb in
chronic patients following neurological injury.
Design: Pre-post treatment study.
Subjects: Twenty patients were enrolled in the study.
Methods: Robot-mediated therapy was provided to chronic
hemiparetic patients (acute event had occurred at least one
year prior to the study), 3 times a week, for 6 weeks. The
therapy consisted of goal-directed, planar reaching tasks
that exercised the hemiparetic shoulder and elbow. The items
for the shoulder and elbow of Motor Status Score, Modified
Ashworth Scale and range of motion were used as outcome
measures.
Results: Statistically significant improvements before and
after treatment were found in each outcome measure. A
3-month follow-up evaluation indicated that patients maintained
the improvements.
Conclusion: The results confirm that robot-mediated therapy,
through short-term, but intensive, repetitive and goaldirected
trials, contributes to a decrease in the upper limb’s
motor disability in people with a chronic neurological injury
by reducing motor impairment and shoulder pain. The
treatment was well accepted and tolerated by patients. No
adverse events occurre
Effects of an upper limb robot-aided therapy in chronic poststroke subjects: a biomechanical and EEG-based approach for functional assessment
No full textWorkshop on “Upper limb robotic neurorehabilitation”, Genova, Italy, December 14-15, 200
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
Terapia robotica e tossina botulinica nel recupero dell’arto superiore nel paziente emiplegico
No full textVIII Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana Riabilitazione Neurologica, 2008, Montecatini (PT
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
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