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A central nervous system-focused treatment approach for people with frozen shoulder: protocol for a randomized clinical trial
2019
Background: Frozen shoulder (FS) is a musculoskeletal condition of poorly understood etiology that results in shoulder pain and large mobility deficits. Despite some physical therapy interventions, such as joint mobilization and exercise, having shown therapeutic benefit, a definitive treatment does not currently exist. The aim of this study will be to compare the effectiveness of a central nervous system (CNS)-directed treatment program versus a standard medical and physical therapy care program on outcomes in participants with FS. Methods/design: The study is a two-group, randomized clinical trial with blinding of participants and assessors. Participants will be recruited via referrals fr…
Integrated treatment of first episode psychosis with online training (e-learning): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
2014
Background: The integrated treatment of first episode psychosis has been shown to improve functionality and negative symptoms in previous studies. In this paper, we describe a study of integrated treatment (individual psychoeducation complementary to pharmacotherapy) versus treatment as usual, comparing results at baseline with those at 6-month re-assessment (at the end of the study) for these patients, and online training of professionals to provide this complementary treatment, with the following objectives: 1) to compare the efficacy of individual psychoeducation as add-on treatment versus treatment as usual in improving psychotic and mood symptoms; 2) to compare adherence to medication,…
Multimodal Perspective into Teachers’ Definitional Practices: Comparing Subject-Specific Language in Physics and History Lessons
2021
This chapter compares two teachers’ definitional practices in two Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL) lessons, i.e. physics and history, which are taught in English in Finland. It adopts Dalton-Puffer’s (Eur J Appl Linguistics 1(2):216–253, 2013; Cognitive discourse functions: specifying an integrative interdisciplinary construct. In: Nikula T, Dafouz E, Moore P, Smit U (eds) Conceptualising integration in CLIL and multilingual education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 29–54, 2016) theoretical construct of cognitive discourse functions (CDF) and showcases how it can be operationalized with empirical grounding. Multimodal conversation analysis (CA) is used to trace and observ…
Infrastructure as Interface: Thinking the Urban and the High-speed Railway Station: Italian Case-studies
2013
The recent launching in Italy of a number of large scale urban operations centered around High Speed Railway (HSR) stations has added a wealth of examples and themes to the overall European picture; these go to make up a global point of reference for other countries that are, in this period, undertaking the construction of their own HSR networks. Above and beyond the territorial questions often linked to the issue, further research investigating the architectural aspect of these operations would be highly relevant, but is rather lacking. Instead, we shall be focusing on current HSR stations in Italy, such as Turin Porta Susa, Florence Belfiore and Rome Tiburtina, and comparing them briefly,…
Il trasporto delle merci in Sicilia nel quadro dell’intermodalità strada-rotaia
2008
Nell’articolo vengono messi in evidenza lo stato attuale del trasporto delle merci in Sicilia e gli interventi previsti per il miglioramento della rete ferroviaria siciliana, con il relativo scenario ottenibile, al fine di rendere competitivo il trasporto ferroviario nei riguardi del “tutto strada”. L’attenzione viene focalizzata sulla politica del trasporto merci, sui servizi di trasporto offerti, sugli impianti, sulle infrastrutture di trasporto, sulla rete ferroviaria siciliana, sulle prestazioni delle linee ferroviarie ed infine sulle criticità infrastrutturali del sistema ferroviario ed interportuale siciliano.
Hydrogels in maxillofacial prosthesis
2017
Background: There is a growing need for prosthetic replacements in humans due to various reasons. Oro-facial deformities contribute more for these treatment modalities due to impairment in both function and esthetics. Biomaterials play an important role in replacing any form of defects. Selection of a good biomaterial is of prime importance as these materials determine the success of the treatment outcome. Acrylic resins and silicones are the most popular materials for replacing the lost tissues as far as the maxillofacial prosthesis is concerned. But these materials only help in covering the defect and give a very little therapeutic effect. Acrylic resins are very rigid materials and are l…
Utilidad de los criterios clínicos para el adecuado diagnóstico de la faringoamigdalitis en la urgencia pediátrica
2019
Fundamentos: Existen dos escalas (Centor y McIsaac) que describen los signos y síntomas frecuentes en la faringoamigdalitis y que determinan la actitud a seguir para su diagnóstico y tratamiento; entre ellas, los criterios de McIsaac son una de las escalas más empleadas. El objetivo del estudio fue determinar el valor predictivo de los criterios de McIsaac en el diagnóstico de la faringoamigdalitis por estreptococo betahemolítico grupo A (EbhGA). El valor predictivo de estos criterios es determinante en la adecuada utilización de la prueba TDR y tratamiento antibiótico. Métodos: Se realizó un estudio transversal cuya población objeto fueron pacientes entre 0 y 14 años atendidos en el Servic…
Signals of intensification and attenuation in orchestra and choir conduction
2017
Based on a model of communication according to which not only words but also body signals constitute lexicons (Poggi, 2007), the study presented aimes at building a lexicon of conductors’ multimodal behaviours requesting intensification and attenuation of sound intensity. In a corpus of concerts and rehearsals, the conductors’ body signals requesting to play or sing forte, piano, crescendo, diminuendo were analysed through an annotation scheme describing the body signals, their meanings, and their semiotic devices: generic codified (the same as in everyday language); specific codified (shared with laypeople but with specific meanings in conduction); direct iconic, (resemblance between visua…
Classification par méthodes d’apprentissage supervisé et faiblement superviséd’images multimodales pour l’aide au diagnostic du lentigo malin en derm…
2021
Carried out in collaboration with the Saint-Étienne University Hospital, this work provides additional information to help the skin diagnosis by providing new decision methods on Lentigo Maligna and Lentigo Maligna Melanoma pathologies. To this end, the modalities regularly used in clinical conditions are made available to this work and are orchestrated within a multimodal process. Among image modalities, may be mentioned the clinical photography, the dermatoscopy, and the confocal reflectance microscopy. Initially, the first steps of this manuscript focus on reflectance confocal microscopy as the work in computer diagnostic assistance is relatively underdeveloped, in particular on the dete…
Critical Literacy in the subject Norwegian: How students (13–14 years) read and evaluate multimodal commercial texts
2022
Denne artikkelen presenterer funn frå ei spørjeundersøking om kritisk lesing og vurdering som omfattar eit utval på 228 norske elevar på åttande trinn (13–14 år). Studien undersøkjer både kva oppfatningar om kritisk lesing elevane formidlar og korleis elevar vurderer og grunngir lesinga si av multimodale kommersielle tekstar. Eit hovudfunn i studien er at forståinga av kritisk lesing som kjeldekritikk er mest utbreidd blant elevane. Ein stor del av elevane har såleis ei rimeleg, men avgrensa oppfatning av kva det vil seie å nærme seg ein tekst på ein kritisk måte. Elevane forbind i mindre grad kritisk lesing med det å nærme seg teksten på ein analytisk måte. Eit anna hovudfunn er at ein del…