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Disability-Related Injuries in Athletes with Disabilities

Folia Medica, 2011
Athletes with disabilities are highly skilled. Sports-related injuries and disorders interfere with their efforts. Several aspects of these injuries have been studied in previous studies. The aim of this study was to correlate the types of injuries with the disability group in athletes with physical disabilities.One hundred and thirty nine elite ...
Dimitrios, Patatoukas, Alekos, Farmakides, Vasiliki, Aggeli, Sofia, Fotaki, Haridimos, Tsibidakis, Andreas F, Mavrogenis, Jannis, Papathanasiou, Panayiotis J, Papagelopoulos   +7 more
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Intranasal insulin prevents anesthesia-induced hyperphosphorylation of tau in 3xTg-AD mice

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2014
Background: It is well documented that elderly individuals are at increased risk of cognitive decline after anesthesia. General anesthesia is believed to be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Yanxing eChen, Xiaoqin eRun, Zhihou eLiang, Yang eZhao, CHUN-LING eDAI, Khalid eIqbal, Fei eLiu, CHENG-XIN eGONG   +7 more
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Effects of Increased Letter Spacing on Digital Text Reading Comprehension, Calibration, and Preferences in Young Readers

Education Sciences
In educational technology environments, the ability to customize digital text presentation offers opportunities to enhance learning experiences through typographical adjustments.
Shahar Dotan, Tami Katzir
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Older Adolescents and Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder Have Difficulty Chaining Motor Acts When Performing Prehension Movements Compared to Typically Developing Peers

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018
It is known that motor actions performed by individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are clumsy and a previous study revealed that children with ASD of around 8 years old showed less smooth movement and dysfunction of appropriate usage of online ...
Takao Fukui, Misako Sano, Misako Sano, Ari Tanaka, Mayuko Suzuki, Sooyung Kim, Hiromi Agarie, Reiko Fukatsu, Reiko Fukatsu, Kengo Nishimaki, Kengo Nishimaki, Yasoichi Nakajima, Makoto Wada   +12 more
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Evaluating the IMPACT WV training portal: Advancing substance use and family support education in rural West Virginia

Digital Health
Background This study evaluates the effectiveness of the IMPACT WV training portal as a resource for service providers and families affected by substance use in rural West Virginia.
Lesley Cottrell, Charlotte Workman, Melina Danko, Mark Smith, Jeremy Bock   +4 more
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Professional commitment and turnover intentions of elementary school teachers during educational crisis

Frontiers in Education
ObjectivesThis study examined professional commitment and turnover intentions among elementary school teachers in Israel during and after a period of educational disruption caused by COVID-19, investigating how demographic factors and satisfaction with ...
Moran Amir, Orly Lipka, Orly Lipka, Miriam Sarid   +3 more
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Assessment of demographic and perinatal predictors of non-response and impact of non-response on measures of association in a population-based case control study: findings from the Georgia Study to Explore Early Development

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2018
Background Participation in epidemiologic studies has declined, raising concerns about selection bias. While estimates derived from epidemiologic studies have been shown to be robust under a wide range of scenarios, additional empiric study is needed ...
Laura A. Schieve, Shericka Harris, Matthew J. Maenner, Aimee Alexander, Nicole F. Dowling   +4 more
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Non-disabled children’s ideas about disability and disabled people

British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
This article discusses findings from an Economic and Social Research Council-funded study exploring non-disabled children’s ideas about disability. This represents the first in-depth sociological investigation of children’s ideas about disabled people as members of wider society.
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Effect of the green/blue flicker matrix for P300-based brain–computer interface: an EEG–fMRI study.

Frontiers in Neurology, 2012
The visual P300 brain–computer interface (BCI), a popular system for EEG-based BCI, utilizes the P300 event-related potential to select an icon arranged in a flicker matrix.
Shiro eIkegami, Shiro eIkegami, Kouji eTakano, Makoto eWada, Naokatsu eSaeki, Kenji eKansaku   +5 more
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Note-Taking Skill Among Bilingual Students in Academia: Literacy, Language and Cognitive Examination

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
The ability to take notes while listening to a lecture is important and complicated. The main goal of the current study was to examine note-taking skills among students with Hebrew as a first language (L1) and students with Arabic as a first language and
Mona Asaly-Zetawi, Orly Lipka, Orly Lipka   +2 more
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