Assessing the applicability of impact speed injury risk curves based on US data to defining safe speeds in the US and Sweden.

Vision Zero is an approach to road safety that aims to eliminate all traffic-induced fatalities and lifelong injuries. To reach this goal, a multi-faceted safe system approach must be implemented to anticipate and minimize the risk associated with human mistakes. One aspect of a safe system is choosing speed limits that keep occupants within human biomechanical limits in a crash scenario.

"A Fine Line That We Walk Every Day": Self-Care Approaches Used by Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia.

Individuals living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) often exhibit behavioral and psychological symptoms of distress that can contribute to the strain experienced by their family caregivers. This strain can increase levels of stress for family caregivers and reduce quality of life, which can have a negative impact on physical health and wellbeing for both the caregiver and the person with ADRD. This study used blogs written by family caregivers of persons with ADRD to explore self-care strategies practiced by these caregivers.

"The Church of Online Support": Examining the Use of Blogs Among Family Caregivers of Persons With Dementia.

Many individuals, including dementia caregivers, use blogs to share their experiences. These blogs contain rich narratives representing an untapped resource for understanding the psychosocial impact of caring for a person with dementia at the family level. The present study used blogs written by caregivers of persons with dementia to explore how these individuals leveraged this medium as part of the caregiving experience.

Reduction in upper-extremity tone after lumbar selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic cerebral palsy.

Object: Randomized clinical trials have established that lumbar selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) reduces lower-extremity tone and improves functional outcome in children with spastic cerebral palsy. Significant data exist to support a secondary effect on upper-extremity function in patients with upper-extremity spasticity. The effects of SDR on upper-extremity tone, however, are not well characterized.

Effects of extracorporeal shock wave therapy on wounds of the distal portion of the limbs in horses.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of focused, extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) on the healing of wounds of the distal portion of the limbs in horses.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Animals: 6 healthy adult horses.

Spectral difference methods in bound state calculations.

The use of discrete variable representations is now commonplace in chemical dynamics calculations. In this paper, we employ spectral difference methods to speed up these calculations. We present five new spectral difference weight functions and compare them with those that already exist in the literature for two different bound state problems.