Publications by authors named "E Blackburn"
Exploring the challenges in manual wheelchair operation for new users.
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol
January 2025
This exploratory qualitative study examines the challenges faced by manual wheelchair (MWC) users and their clinicians, with a focus on mobility difficulties in both outdoor and indoor environments, as well as training priorities. The study involved semi-structured interviews with 18 clinicians and 25 MWC users from various rehabilitation centres. The interviews, lasting between 30 and 60 minutes, explored specific aspects of MWC use, including mobility challenges, training needs, and psychological factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn unconventional superconductors, coupled charge and lattice degrees of freedom can manifest in ordered phases of matter that are intertwined. In the cuprate family, fluctuating short-range charge correlations can coalesce into a longer-range charge density wave (CDW) order which is thought to intertwine with superconductivity, yet the nature of the interaction is still poorly understood. Here, by measuring subtle lattice fluctuations in underdoped YBaCuO on quasi-static timescales (thousands of seconds) through X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, we report sensitivity to both superconductivity and CDW.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the standard tool to image the human brain In this domain, digital brain atlases are essential for subject-specific segmentation of anatomical regions of interest (ROIs) and spatial comparison of neuroanatomy from different subjects in a common coordinate frame. High-resolution, digital atlases derived from histology (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArticle Synopsis
- The text discusses open-source tools designed for 3D analysis of photographs from dissected human brain slices, which are often underutilized for quantitative studies.
- These tools can reconstruct a 3D volume and segment brain images into 11 regions per hemisphere, serving as a cost-effective alternative to traditional MRI imaging.
- Testing shows that the methodology provides accurate 3D reconstructions and can differentiate between Alzheimer's disease cases and healthy controls, with tools available in the FreeSurfer suite.
Introduction: COVID-19 claimed millions of lives, mainly in the pre-vaccine era. Preliminary studies showed promising efficacy of convalescent plasma against SARS-CoV-2 (CP).
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of CP in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 with moderate severity.