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The Effects of Nerve and Tendon Gliding Exercises Combined with Low-level Laser or Ultrasound Therapy in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Background Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a common medical condition that doctors and physiotherapists come across in clinical practice. There are no explicit recommendations concerning which physical therapy methods should be applied in its treatment; however, there have also been no studies on the effects of combining low-level laser therapy (LLLT) or ultrasound with nerve and tendon gliding exercises. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of ultrasound and LLLT combined with gliding exercises. Materials and Methods A total of seventy patients with mild to moderate CTS, divided into two groups, were included in this study. Group 1 received ultrasound treatment, whereas Group 2 underwent LLLT. The treatment lasted 2 weeks (5 sessions/week). In addition, both groups were treated with nerve and tendon gliding exercises three times daily. The clinical evaluation involved an interview on subjective and objective sensory abnormalities, the intensity of pain, the measurement of grip strength, Phalen’s test, Tinel’s sign, and the Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire. The assessment was performed before and after the treatment. Results A decrease in sensory impairments, improvement in visual analog scale, hand grip strength and the Boston Questionnaire results were significant in all patients after therapy. No meaningful differences between groups were noted in any of the examined variables after treatment. No adverse effects were observed. Conclusions The results of this study may suggest the clinical efficacy of LLLT or ultrasound combined with gliding exercises in patients with mild to moderate CTS.
SMS behaviour change communication and eVoucher interventions to increase uptake of cervical cancer screening in the Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions of Tanzania: a randomised, double-blind, controlled trial of effectiveness

Background Cervical cancer, although almost entirely preventable through cervical cancer screening (CCS) and human papillomavirus vaccination, is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Tanzania. Barriers to attending CCS include lack of awareness of CCS, affordability concerns regarding screening and travel cost. We aimed to compare the effectiveness of SMS (short message service) behaviour change communication (BCC) messages and of SMS BCC messages delivered with a transportation electronic voucher (eVoucher) on increasing uptake of CCS versus the control group. Methods Door-to-door recruitment was conducted between 1 February and 13 March 2016 in randomly selected enumeration areas in the catchment areas of two hospitals, one urban and one rural, in Northern Tanzania. Women aged 25–49 able to access a mobile phone were randomised using a computer-generated 1:1:1 sequence stratified by urban/rural to receive either (1) 15 SMS, (2) an eVoucher for return transportation to CCS plus the same SMS, or (3) one SMS informing about the nearest CCS clinic. Fieldworkers and participants were masked to allocation. All areas received standard sensitisation including posters, community announcements and sensitisation similar to community health worker (CHW) sensitisation. The primary outcome was attendance at CCS within 60 days of randomisation. Findings Participants (n=866) were randomly allocated to the BCC SMS group (n=272), SMS + eVoucher group (n=313), or control group (n=281), with 851 included in the analysis (BCC SMS n=272, SMS + eVoucher n=298, control group n=281). By day 60 of follow-up, 101 women (11.9%) attended CCS. Intervention group participants were more likely to attend than control group participants (SMS + eVoucher OR: 4.7, 95% CI 2.9 to 7.4; SMS OR: 3.0, 95% CI 1.5 to 6.2). Trial registration number NCT02680613.
Investigation of the Power Grid Accuracy by CMOS Transistor Network using Matlab/ Simulink

The design and analysis of the power distribution and supply system on a chip is a complex issue. The ideal network consists of millions of transistors, which act as energy consumers. This large number makes them complex in terms of design and analysis. Building typical algorithms with logical gates and working automatically is the best way to solve the problem of power grid complexity. In this research, it was proposed to design a new model for consumers on the basis of effective resistance. passive elements were used only in this model and based on the actual resistance and capacity of the logical gates. Consumers and power grids can adopt computational physics methods and consider each group of consumers in each subnet as within total circuits. Emphasis is placed on the interaction between consumers for energy distribution network and energy supply. Using Matlab/ Simulink, accuracy of the system is verified to determine the technical issues related to the operation of the system for power networks.
Relationships between Residential Development and the Environment

This research explores how residents perceive the relationships between residential development patterns and the natural environment. Based on a fall 2004 survey of 283 residents from urban, suburban, exurban, and conservation neighborhoods in Michigan’s Washtenaw and Livingston Counties, this research indicates that residents may not have a clear understanding of the environmental impacts of residential development. The results suggest a need for environmental education especially with regard to the land development and water quality relationship and the impacts of large-lot, automobile-dependent developments. The study also suggests that further research is needed on the relationship between land development and the environment.
Tactile Sensing and Control of Robotic Manipulator Integrating Fiber Bragg Grating Strain-Sensor

Tactile sensing is an instrumental modality of robotic manipulation, as it provides information that is not accessible via remote sensors such as cameras or lidars. Touch is particularly crucial in unstructured environments, where the robot's internal representation of manipulated objects is uncertain. In this study we present the sensorization of an existing artificial hand, with the aim to achieve fine control of robotic limbs and perception of object's physical properties. Tactile feedback is conveyed by means of a soft sensor integrated at the fingertip of a robotic hand. The sensor consists of an optical fiber, housing Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) transducers, embedded into a soft polymeric material integrated on a rigid hand. Through several tasks involving grasps of different objects in various conditions, the ability of the system to acquire information is assessed. Results show that a classifier based on the sensor outputs of the robotic hand is capable of accurately detecting both size and rigidity of the operated objects (99.36 and 100% accuracy, respectively). Furthermore, the outputs provide evidence of the ability to grab fragile objects without breakage or slippage e and to perform dynamic manipulative tasks, that involve the adaptation of fingers position based on the grasped objects' condition.
Monitoring Algorithm for Speed Information of Autonomous Vehicles Based on Magnetoresistive Sensor

Based on a magnetoresistive sensor, an algorithm for speed information monitoring of autonomous vehicles suitable for fewer target feature points is proposed. When using a magnetoresistive sensor on the road, the monitoring principle of the magnetoresistive sensor is that the magnetoresistive sensor generates a voltage signal and sends it to a signal processing module. In the signal processing module, the vehicles signal is compared with a threshold value to determine whether the vehicle is present. In the signal processing module, the vehicle signal is compared in the presence of the vehicle, and the node time synchronization technology is used to select the two-node autonomous vehicle speed information monitoring method. Then, the speed information of the autonomous vehicles in motion is monitored in real time. The vehicle speed information is sent to the upper node by using the single chip microcomputer. It is then sent to the coordinator module using ZigBee technology in the wireless sensor network. Finally, it is sent to the intelligent traffic monitoring center to achieve speed information monitoring of autonomous vehicles. The experimental results show that the accuracy rate of the autonomous vehicles’ speed information monitored by the algorithm is above 97%, and the monitored energy consumption is only 13.5 J. This shows that the algorithm’s monitoring accuracy and energy consumption have an advantage.
Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto

Left hypergenic functions are Cli ord algebra C`n+1,0-valued functions satisfying the equation Df − k x0 Q0f = 0 where D is the Dirac operator and Q0 is the projection-type mapping C`n+1,0 → C`n,0 given by composition. Similarly we de ne right hypergenic functions taking right actions in the previous de nition. We consider some fundamental and local properties of hypergenic functions. We prove our version of the BorelPompeiu formula and a new version of Cauchy's theorem. We shall consider hypergenic Cli ord algebra-values multivector functions and prove that in that case leftand right hypergenicity coincide. 1 Preliminaries Let {e0, . , en} be the standard basis in R. The Cli ord algebra C`n+1 is the free associative algebra with unit generated by standard basis vectors together with the de ning relations eiej + ejei = 2δij for each i, j = 0, . , n. The Cli ord algebra C`n+1 has the dimension 2 and the canonical basis is given by eA = ea1 · · · eak where A = {a1, . , ak} ⊂ N = {0, . , n} and a1 < · · · < ak. Especially e∅ = 1 and e{j} = ej . The space of k-vectors is de ned by C`n = span{eA : |A| = k}. Any a ∈ C`n+1 admit the multivector decomposition: a = [a]0 + [a]1 + · · ·+ [a]n+1 with [a]k ∈ C`n+1. The space of 0-vectors is iden ed with R and the set of 1-vectors is identi ed with R. Assume that Ω is an open subset of R. In the canonical basis every function f : Ω→ C`n admit the representation f = ∑ A eAfA. A function f is called di erentiable in Ω if fA is di erentiable in Ω for each A. If f is di erentiable we de ne the left Dirac operator by
Ascospore sculpturing and generic concepts in the Testudinaceae (syn. Zopfiaceae)

Generic concepts in the Testudinaceae (Ascomycotina, Loculoascomycetes) are reviewed with particular emphasis on the sculpturing of the ascospores which has been examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) for the first time. A key to the nine genera accepted in the family is provided of which two are described as new: Ulospora for U. bilgramii comb.nov. (= Zopfia bilgramii D. Hawksw. et al.), the ascospores of which have three to six deep fissures in each cell, and Zopfiofoveola for Z. punctata comb.nov. (= Zopfia punctata D. Hawksw. & C. Booth), with distinctly and regularly foveolate ascospores. One further new combination is made: Rechingeriella boudieri comb.nov. (= Zopfia boudieri Arnaud). The positions of three additional genera referred to the family by earlier authors but which are excluded from it here are also briefly discussed.
Approaches for Web Search User Interfaces How to improve the search quality for various types of information

— This paper describes approaches used by web search tools to communicate with users. With respect to different kinds of information resources, we examine interactive interfaces that use textual queries, tag-focused navigation, hyperlink navigation, visual features, etc. Among others, we introduce the design vision and describe the implementation of a visual-interface based on concepts of query token network and the WordNet ontology.
Object and Gas Source Detection with Robotic Platforms in Perceptually-Degraded Environments

—In exploration-oriented robotic missions for disaster relief in unknown environments, it is of prime importance for a human supervisor to rapidly gain situational awareness of salient objects within the environment. In this paper, we present a cascaded and modular pipeline for the detection, localization and visualization of objects of interest that is adaptable to heterogeneous robots with arbitrary sensor conﬁgurations. We apply this pipeline for static objects which may be seen with the human eye as well as invisible spatially-diffuse phenomena such as gas and WiFi signals. We present results from its deployment in time-critical scenarios with multiple collaborative robots in a variety of harsh underground environments. For visually-observable objects, detections are made in both the color and thermal spectra using a state-of-the-art machine learning framework for object detection. We ﬁne-tune a pre-trained convolutional neural network for a speciﬁc set of objects; in this case we use around 1000 images covering a range of poses and contexts for each object class. Once detected, a robust architecture for localization is used with outlier rejection and a hierarchy of fall-back distance measurement methods. Spatially-diffuse phenomena are registered by tracking signal strength over time. A human supervisor can optionally provide input to reﬁne the automatically-generated detections with the help of intuitive map-based visualizations and object thumbnails ranked by classiﬁcation conﬁdence.
CARBON IN N2 FIXATION: Limitation or Exquisite Adaptation

INTRODUCTION 373 PHOTOSYNTHETIC CARBON LIMITATIONS AND Nz FIXATION . 374 Carbon Costs of N2 Fixation . 374 Carbon Transport, Partitioning, and Availability. 376 NODULE OXYGEN DIFFUSION . 378 O,-LIMITED CARBON METABOLISM . 381 Malate as a Reductive End Product . 381 Nodule Organic Acids . 382 A Role for GABA . 384 Unresolved Issues . 385 CONCLUSIONS. 386
International Journal of Latest Research in Engineering and Technology

Titanium dioxide semiconductor material has been extensively investigated for several purposes and several dopants has been inserted aiming new photonic properties. Several properties of titanium dioxide powders depend on the crystalline structure of anatase phase and some modifiers can be provide better or another characteristics. Some aspects of structural rearrangements inanatase phase can be satisfactorily evaluated by X-ray diffraction and Rietveld refinement in order to elucidate defect elimination and the basis ofthe anatase-to-rutile phase transition. By monitoring the lattice parameters along the temperature of thermal treatment, it is possible to understand the consequences of the dopant insertion and aid to propose new modification in the future.In this work, it was investigated the structural effects caused in anatase structure and in anatase-to-rutile phase transition by the simultaneous modification with 2 mol% of silicon and 4 mol% of zirconium homovalent modifiers. It was observed an effective stabilization of the anatase phase up to temperature as high as 900 °C besides the continuous increase of tetragonality.
Estimating a DSGE model for Norway with optimal monetary policy

We use Bayesian techniques to estimate a New Keynesian small open-economy model under the assumption that monetary policy is conducted optimally under commitment. To take account of the potential misspeci cation of the structural model, we use the DSGE-VAR methodology proposed by Del Negro and Schorfheide (2004). We compare the results to those obtained under the alternative assumption that the central bank follows a simple instrument rule. Our ndings suggest that the t of the DSGE model with optimal policy under commitment is at least as good as the model with a simple instrument rule. This result is robust to allowing for misspeci cation within the DSGE-VAR framework. We compare the interest rate and ination projections to the paths published by Norges Bank after 2005.
An Estimate for a Metropolitan Area of Sardinia, Italy

The purpose of this study is to evaluate condono, an Italian public policy t hat seeks to eliminate, or at least mitigate, the negative impacts of abusivism, a common illegal practice based on widespread building code violations. The study refers to the metropolitan area of the city of Cagliari on the island of Sardinia, Italy. Since the end of World War II, Italian legislation and enforcement concerning public urban planning and control of building activity have been inadequate to meet the needs of the local communities. Widespread building code violations consist mainly of residential additions constructed without building permits or in violation of the issued permit. A rigid, top-down approach has led to a deep rift between the objectives of city planning policies and the results of their implementation. Such policies have not become an integral part of the culture of the local communities, which have historically organized their life without taking such policies into account. Moreover, the extremely lengthy permit process emphasizes this rigidity. Dramatic uncertainty surrounds the time period for a building project’s approval. This is one of the major roots of Italian abusivism, a phenomenon that should not be considered unilaterally negative. At least to some extent, this behavior is an understandable reaction by local communities to the legislation and practices regarding urban planning and control over building activity that is unresponsive to the needs of the local communities. This phenomenon has caused significant underfinancing of public services. In fact, new residential construction implied an increase of a resident population for whom no new public services and infrastructure were built. In the middle of the 1980s, new legislation sought to cope with a dramatically deteriorating situation, especially in the metropolitan areas. This new legislation defined a public policy called condono (literally, pardon or condonation), which sought to prevent future building code violations and to provide cities with financial support for the increased need for services and infrastructure caused by abusivism. The evaluation of condono is addressed here in reference to the value of the benefit obtained in relation to the magnitude of the damage caused by abusivism. As abusivism decreases the quality of urban life, the evaluation of the benefit from condono can be implemented through the marginal damage curve of abusivism, since condono abates abusivism.
Object Detection via Random Subspace Classifiers in Partially Occluded Images

Object detection plays an important role in image processing. Several methods have been developed for detecting objects but they do not provide satisfactory result in cases of partially occluded objects in image frames. This paper describes a general method for object detection when there is a partial occlusion in still images. In this method we have developed classifiers using Random Subspace Method (RSM) to handle the partially occluded image frames. The classifiers handle images on both global level as well as local level to improve the detection performance. Using such classifiers increases detection rate when partial occlusions are present without compromising the detection rate of non-occluded data. The input image window is described as a block-based feature vector where each block is passed through a holistic level. On the basis of holistic responses for each block, local classifiers can be invoked to produce the final output. In contrast to many recent approaches, we propose a method which does not require manual labeling, defining any semantic spatial components, color based features, or any additional data coming from motion or stereo.
Untersuchung zur Pathogenese der neuronalen Ceroid-Lipofuszinosen am Menschen und an den Tiermodellen Ovis aries (LINNEAUS 1758) und Mus musculus (LINNEAUS 1758) : CLN6 und Cathepsin-D-Defizienz

• C. Heine, B. Kübler, P. Saftig, D. Brömme, T. Braulke. Proteolysis of IGFBPs by cathepsin K in vitro and in cathepsin K-deficient mice. Biological Chemistry 381; S120; GBM-Tagung 2000, München, Deutschland • C. Heine, M. Ackmann, P.Saftig, D. Palmer, A. Kohlschütter, J. Tyynelä, and T. Braulke. Lysosomal proteomics of different NCL-diseases using 2Delectrophoresis and mass spectrometry. 13. ESGLD-Meeting 2001, Woudschoten, The Netherlands.
BOOK REVIEWS William Sites, Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota

“Primitive accumulation” is Marx’s description of the crude concentrating of wealth that takes place in capitalist economic development. The basis of the whole process, Marx explains, is the violent, coercive use of force by the state to displace the peasantry from lands where they have worked, followed by “bloody legislation” used to regulate the consequences of these jarring separations from traditional ways of life. Beggars, vagrants, and poor people generally endure the most immediate consequences (pp. 13-15). Skipping ahead from feudalism to the present era’s cross-border economic integration, William Sites borrows from this idea to frame his theory of primitive globalization. For Sites, today’s mode of “primitive globalization” follows a similar pattern of reactive politics. In the contemporary United States, probusiness coalitions support policies that displace the urban poor as the state dismantles welfarist safeguards. Inequality increases, instability grows, and communities fragment. Sites examines the transformation of New York City in the era of primitive globalization, concentrating on political action at the national, local, and neighborhood levels. For Sites, the story of late-twentieth-century New York and, in particular, the Lower East Side (LES) neighborhood is less a narrative of resurgence and revitalization than a story of community fragmentation within the city. The first three chapters of the volume develop and successfully support this thesis. Chapter 1 describes Sites’s concept of primitive globalization; chapter 2 describes the evolution of the city from a patchwork of neighborhoods into a neoliberal growth machine; and chapter 3 reworks material from Sites’s previous writing on the gentrification of the LES. After chapter 4, the book’s utility diminishes as the author devotes an inordinate attention to the squatter movements in the neighborhood at the expense of other social movements in housing, labor, and health that helped many to successfully buck displacement. Sites’s work neglects many “best practices” in community organizing that can be found in the LES. Omission of the work of ACT UP, Housing Works, and the community garden advocacy groups, all of which significantly altered the landscape of urban activism throughout the years of Sites’s study, creates an uneven picture. Sites is not alone. Recent books by Janet Abu-Lughod (1994), Neil Smith (1996), and Christopher Mele (2000) treat the neighborhood as a model case of urban gentrification where community sovereignty is lost to global market forces. Yet, Sites fails to
THE USE OF CONTROLLED LEVELS OF ACTIDIONE FOR BREWING AND NON‐BREWING YEAST STRAIN DIFFERENTIATION

The variability of results using actidione media for the identification of beer spoilage bacteria has been shown to be due to the heat sensitivity of this reagent. Critical evaluation shows that with a particular brewery yeast, media containing 0·06 p.p.m. allow the growth of a single brewing strain but inhibit others. This permits the rapid classification of yeast strains in this pitching yeast. In a further brewery, media containing 0·16 p.p.m. differentiate brewing yeast strains from beer spoilage yeasts and this permits the quantitative assessment of these for process control at all stages of brewing. In a particular instance where a culture yeast strain is not inhibited at 0·16 p.p.m. but is p-aminobenzoic acid dependent, a differential medium incorporating this low level of actidione and omitting the vitamin allows the identification of beer spoilage yeasts in process control. These results illustrate the potential of this approach for microbiological control in specific brewery problems.