Smart, sustainable, and circular port maintenance: A comprehensive framework and multi-stakeholder approach.

Ports and waterways are key in supporting the waterborne supply chains that form the backbone of global trade. Maintaining adequate water depth is vital for accessibility and safe navigation. Port authorities and contractors are the key players in developing maintenance strategies, and they strive for a mutually beneficial compromise.

Perception and predictors of health locus of control at rehabilitation discharge and 1 year after traumatic spinal cord injury.

This retrospective study examined the perception and predictors of health locus of control (LOC) in 71 individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI) at discharge from inpatient rehabilitation (average age 39 years, 77% male, 54% black, 51% cervical SCI, 51% incomplete SCI and average time post-SCI 20 days). We also determined if health LOC beliefs and predictors change over the 1st year after SCI in a representative subsample of 36 individuals. The participants completed surveys regarding the health LOC, self-esteem and depression whereas demographic and SCI information were retrieved from medical records.

Self-esteem level and stability, admission functional status, and depressive symptoms in acute inpatient stroke rehabilitation.

Objectives: Explore the relationship of self-esteem level, self-esteem stability, and admission functional status on discharge depressive symptoms in acute stroke rehabilitation.

Research Method: One hundred twenty stroke survivors serially completed a measure of state self-esteem during inpatient rehabilitation and completed a measure of depressive symptoms at discharge. Functional status was rated at admission using the Functional Independence Measure (FIM).

Multilevel modeling of self-esteem change during acute inpatient stroke rehabilitation.

Objective: To explore self-esteem change during inpatient stroke rehabilitation and moderators of change.

Research Method: One hundred twenty survivors of stroke serially completed the State Self-Esteem Scale (SSES) during inpatient rehabilitation, as well as measures of mood and perceived recovery as potential moderators of change. Age, gender, prior stroke, prestroke depression, stroke laterality, and admission Functional Independence Measure (FIM) self-care, mobility, and cognitive scores were also included as moderators.

Self-esteem stability and depressive symptoms in acute stroke rehabilitation: methodological and conceptual expansion.

Objectives: Explore the relationship of self-esteem level, self-esteem stability, and other moderating variables with depressive symptoms in acute stroke rehabilitation.

Measures: One hundred twenty participants completed measures of state self-esteem, perceived recovery, hospitalization-based hassles, impairment-related distress, and tendency to overgeneralize negative self-connotations of bad events. Self-report of depressive symptoms was collected at admission and on discharge.

Classification schema of posttraumatic amnesia duration-based injury severity relative to 1-year outcome: analysis of individuals with moderate and severe traumatic brain injury.

Objective: Early investigations classified traumatic brain injury (TBI) severity according to posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) duration, designating "greater than 7 days" as the most severe. PTA durations of more than 7 days are common in neurorehabilitation populations. Moreover, no study has derived a PTA severity schema anchored to late outcome.

Self-esteem in an acute stroke rehabilitation sample: a control group comparison.

Objective: To compare ratings of self-esteem and depressive mood in a sample of stroke survivors in an acute inpatient rehabilitation setting to those of a matched control group.

Design: Stroke survivors (n = 80) were matched on age and education to a group of neurologically intact community-dwelling control participants. Between-group analysis compared mean ratings of self-esteem and depressive measures.