Digital technologies for pediatric rehabilitation: current access and use in the European Rehatech4child survey.

Background: Digital technologies such as robotics and treadmill-systems (RobTS), virtual-reality and active video-gaming (VR-AVG), and telehealth and apps (T&Apps) used within pediatric motor rehabilitation may promote recovery and improve function. However, digital technology uptake may be limited in clinical practice.

Aim: To explore access to and use of digital technologies for pediatric motor rehabilitation (DT4R) in Europe as a function of individual and environmental factors, as well as potential barriers to their use.

Quantum and statistical state-to-state studies of cold Ar + H collisions.

In this work we present new state-to-state integral scattering cross sections and initial-state selected rate coefficients for the Ar (S) + H (XΣ, = 0,) reactive system for collision energies up to 0.1 eV (with respect to the Ar (S) + H (XΣ, = 0, = 0) channel). To the best of our knowledge, these cross sections are the first fully state resolved ones that were obtained by performing time-independent quantum mechanical and quantum statistical calculations.

Wheelchair skills training improves power mobility and participation in young people with cerebral palsy.

Aim: To explore the effect of a 4-week structured power wheelchair skills training programme (WSTP) intervention on mobility skills and participation in children and young people (CYP) with cerebral palsy (CP).

Method: This was a one-group, repeated-measures study; baseline, intervention, and retention phases, each lasting 4 weeks, were used. Twelve participants (three females, nine males) with a mean age of 15 years 11 months (SD = 3 years 6 months) classified in Gross Motor Function Classification System levels IV and V participated in the study.

Optimization of sample preparation, fluorescence- and Raman techniques for environmental microplastics.

Microspectroscopic imaging techniques based on spontaneous Raman scattering, Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS), or fluorescence (with a selective dye) can be used to detect environmental microplastics (MPs) and determine their chemical as well as physical properties. The present study first focuses on optimizing the sample preparation, including a new design for a density separation apparatus and optimization of the Nile Red staining procedure. Tests were carried out with both white and colored reference materials, as well as environmental MPs in a suspended matter sample from the Rhine river.

Protoplast-mediated transformation of Madurella mycetomatis using hygromycin resistance as a selection marker.

Madurella mycetomatis is the main cause of mycetoma, a chronic granulomatous infection for which currently no adequate therapy is available. To improve therapy, more knowledge on a molecular level is required to understand how M. mycetomatis is able to cause this disease.