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Repeatability of the timed 25-foot walk test for individuals with multiple sclerosis
(Clinical Rehabilitation, 2013-08-01)
Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a practice effect present in the timed 25-foot walk in ambulatory individuals with multiple sclerosis.
Countermovement Jump Inter-Limb Asymmetries in Collegiate Basketball Players
(2019-04-30)
The purpose of the present study was to establish the intrasession and intersession
reliability of variables obtained from a force plate that was used to quantitate lower extremity
inter-limb asymmetry during the bilateral ...
Phased-Array Radar System Simulator (PASIM): Development and Simulation Result Assessment
(2019-01-19)
In this paper, a system-specific phased-array radar system simulator was developed, based on a time-domain modeling and simulation method, mainly for system performance evaluation of the future Spectrum-Efficient National ...
NUCLEAR FACTOR Y Transcription Factors Have Both Opposing and Additive Roles in ABA-Mediated Seed Germination
(PLos One, 2013-03-19)
In the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana the heterotrimeric transcription factor NUCLEAR FACTOR Y (NF-Y) has been shown to play multiple roles in facilitating plant growth and development. Although NF-Y itself represents ...
Effects of Blood Flow Restricted Low-Intensity Concentric or Eccentric Training on Muscle Size and Strength
(PLos One, 2012-12-31)
We investigated the acute and chronic effects of low-intensity concentric or eccentric resistance training with blood flow restriction (BFR) on muscle size and strength. Ten young men performed 30% of concentric one ...
Eyewitness Identification and the Accuracy of the Criminal Justice System
(Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2015-10-01)
This article addresses the problem of eyewitness identification errors that can lead to false convictions of the innocent and false acquittals of the guilty. At the heart of our analysis based on signal detection theory ...
Establishing a Causal Relationship Between Intervention to Promote Self-Determination and Enhanced Student Self-Determination
(The Journal of Special Education, 2013-02-01)
Promoting the self-determination of adolescents with disabilities has become best practice in secondary education and transition services, but to date there have been no studies establishing a causal relationship between ...
Ecological opportunity and the adaptive diversification of lineages
(2014-12-17)
The tenet that ecological opportunity drives adaptive diversification has been central to theories of speciation since Darwin, yet no widely accepted definition or mechanistic framework for the concept currently exists. ...
Aging and Wisdom: Culture Matters
(Psychological Science, 2012-10-01)
People from different cultures vary in the ways they approach social conflicts, with Japanese being more motivated to maintain interpersonal harmony and avoid conflicts than Americans are. Such cultural differences have ...
Decision-making biases and affective states: Their potential impact on best practice innovations
(2010-09-20)
Rogers’s (2003) stages of innovation adoption and diffusion (knowledge of innovation, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation) are used as a framework for understanding the decision-making biases and heuristics ...