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Sexual Violence Against Persons With Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2021
A growing number of large-scale studies suggest that people with disabilities are at greater risk of sexual victimization than nondisabled individuals. However, certain results are inconsistent and whether potential moderators explain this variability in
Amylee Mailhot Amborski, È. Bussières, Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel, C. Joyal   +3 more
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Factors associated with public attitudes towards persons with disabilities: a systematic review

BMC Public Health, 2021
The aim of this review is to identify and summarize factors that are associated with public attitudes towards people with various disabilities systematically.
Ziru Wang, Xiaoli Xu, Qiong Han, Yan Chen, Jiayao Jiang, Guo-Xin Ni   +5 more
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Improve Access to Assistive Technologies and Promote Universal Health Coverage

Xiehe Yixue Zazhi, 2022
Assistive technology is a subset of health technology. The resolution on improving access to assistive technology adopted by the 71st World Health Assembly illustrates that it is extremely important to integrate assistive technologies into healthcare ...
DONG Liquan, LIU Zhihong, XIE Ganlin, LI Yanyu   +3 more
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Personality and incident disability in older persons [PDF]

Age and Ageing, 2006
to examine the relation of personality to the development of disability in old age.participants are 813 older Catholic nuns, priests and brothers without dementia or disability at study onset. As part of a uniform baseline evaluation, they completed standard measures of the five principal dimensions of personality.
Kristin R, Krueger, Robert S, Wilson, Raj C, Shah, Yuxiao, Tang, David A, Bennett   +4 more
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Functional lateralization of speech processing in adults and children who stutter

Frontiers in Psychology, 2011
Developmental stuttering is a speech disorder in fluency characterized by repetitions, prolongations and silent blocks, especially in the initial parts of utterances. Although their symptoms are motor related, people who stutter show abnormal patterns of
Yutaka eSato, Yutaka eSato, Koichi eMori, Toshizo eKoizumi, Toshizo eKoizumi, Yasuyo eMinagawa-Kawai, Yasuyo eMinagawa-Kawai, Akihiro eTanaka, Akihiro eTanaka, Emi eOzawa, Yoko eWakaba, Reiko eMazuka, Reiko eMazuka   +12 more
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A BMI-based occupational therapy assist suit: asynchronous control by SSVEP

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2013
A brain-machine interface (BMI) is an interface technology that uses neurophysiological signals from the brain to control external machines. Recent invasive BMI technologies have succeeded in the asynchronous control of robot arms for a useful series of ...
Takeshi eSakurada, Toshihiro eKawase, Kouji eTakano, Tomoaki eKomatsu, Kenji eKansaku   +4 more
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Evaluation of photoreceptor-directed fibroblasts derived from retinitis pigmentosa patients with defects in the EYS gene: a possible cost-effective cellular model for mechanism-oriented drug

Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2022
Background The most common gene responsible for autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is EYS. The manner of decay of genetically defective EYS gene transcripts varies depending on the type of mutation using our cellular model, which consists of ...
Dilip Rai, Masaki Iwanami, Yoriko Takahashi, Yukari Komuta, Noriyuki Aoi, Akihiro Umezawa, Yuko Seko   +6 more
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An evaluation of training with an auditory P300 brain-computer interface for the Japanese Hiragana syllabary

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2016
Gaze-independent brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are a possible communication channel for persons with paralysis. We investigated if it is possible to use auditory stimuli to create a BCI for the Japanese Hiragana syllabary, which has 46 Hiragana ...
Sebastian Halder, Sebastian Halder, Kouji Takano, Hiroki Ora, Hiroki Ora, Akinari Onishi, Kota Utsumi, Kota Utsumi, Kenji Kansaku, Kenji Kansaku   +9 more
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Effect of NEuroplasticity-Principles-based SEnsory-Rehabilitation (NEPSER) on sensori-motor recovery in stroke: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Neurological Research and Practice, 2021
Introduction Up to 2/3rd of the stroke subjects may experience impairment in any of the somatosensory modalities such as light touch, proprioception, and stereognosis. The sensory recovery is strongly associated with the level of motor recovery.
Kamal Narayan Arya, Shanta Pandian, G. G. Agarwal, Neera Chaudhary, Akshay Kumar Joshi   +4 more
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Towards intelligent environments: an augmented reality-brain-machine interface operated with a see-through head-mount display

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2011
The brain-machine interface (BMI) or brain-computer interface (BCI) is a new interface technology that uses neurophysiological signals from the brain to control external machines or computers.
Kouji eTakano, Naoki eHata, Naoki eHata, Kenji eKansaku   +3 more
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