Parenting with a physical disability: A scoping review of assessment methods.

Introduction: Daily childcare can be challenging for parents with a physical disability who have young children. Occupational therapists are valuable facilitators to family participation. However, occupational therapists have reported significant gaps in knowledge when documenting the parenting role of parents with a physical disability in occupational therapy practice.

Effectiveness of smart living environments to support older adults to age in place in their community: an umbrella review protocol.

Introduction: Frailty is a vulnerable condition exposing older adults to incidental adverse health events that negatively impact their quality of life and increase health and social costs. Digital solutions may play a key role in addressing this global problem and in particular, smart living environments. Smart living environments involve a notion of measurement or collection of data via several sensors, capturing the person's behaviours in the home or the person's health status over a long period of time.

Factors influencing clinicians' referral or admission decisions for post-acute stroke or traumatic brain injury rehabilitation: A scoping review.

Demand for post-acute stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation outweighs resource availability. Every day, clinicians face the challenging task of deciding which patient will benefit or not from rehabilitation. The objectives of this scoping review were to map and compare factors reported by clinicians as influencing referral or admission decisions to post-acute rehabilitation for stroke and TBI patients, to identify most frequently reported factors and those perceived as most influential.

Assessment methods in sexual rehabilitation after stroke: a scoping review for rehabilitation professionals.

Purpose: The aim was to identify and describe the assessment methods used by rehabilitation professionals to evaluate sexuality for individuals post-stroke, as well as the domains of sexuality addressed.

Methods: Seven databases were selected for this scoping review. needed to meet these inclusion criteria: published studies with a sample of ≥ 50% stroke clients and describing a quantitative or qualitative assessment method that could be used by rehabilitation professionals.

Interventions used by allied health professionals in sexual rehabilitation after stroke: A systematic review.

: Although sexuality can be affected post-stroke, few individuals receive sexual rehabilitation because of clinicians' lack of knowledge regarding evidence-based interventions.: To document and describe the best available evidence supporting interventions that target post-stroke rehabilitation of sexuality.: This systematic review searched the databases Medline, Embase, Psycinfo, CINAHL, Web of science, PEDRO and OTSeeker up to 29 May 2020.

Parenting with a physical disability and cognitive impairments: a scoping review of the needs expressed by parents.

Purpose: Parents, whose daily activities are limited by a disability, account for 6.2% of the American population with minor children. Considering the prevailing knowledge gaps concerning parents with a physical disability and cognitive impairments, there is an urgency to instigate an investigation of their unmet needs.

Learning theories and tools for the assessment of core nursing competencies in simulation: A theoretical review.

Aim: To identify the theories used to explain learning in simulation and to examine how these theories guided the assessment of learning outcomes related to core competencies in undergraduate nursing students.

Background: Nurse educators face the challenge of making explicit the outcomes of competency-based education, especially when competencies are conceptualized as holistic and context dependent.

Design: Theoretical review.

Divergence among genes encoding the elongation factor Tu of Yersinia Species.

Elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), encoded by tuf genes, carries aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosome during protein synthesis. Duplicated tuf genes (tufA and tufB), which are commonly found in enterobacterial species, usually coevolve via gene conversion and are very similar to one another. However, sequence analysis of tuf genes in our laboratory has revealed highly divergent copies in 72 strains spanning the genus Yersinia (representing 12 Yersinia species).

Severe hypertension caused by alleles from normotensive Lewis for a quantitative trait locus on chromosome 2.

Pursuing fully a suggestion from linkage analysis that there might be a quantitative trait locus (QTL) for blood pressure (BP) in a chromosome (Chr) 2 region of the Dahl salt-sensitive rat (DSS), four congenic strains were made by replacing various fragments of DSS Chr 2 with those of Lewis (LEW). Consequently, a BP QTL was localized to a segment of around 3 cM or near 3 Mb on Chr 2 by comparative congenics. The BP-augmenting alleles of this QTL originated from the LEW rat, a normotensive strain compared with DSS.

Complete and overlapping congenics proving the existence of a quantitative trait locus for blood pressure on Dahl rat chromosome 17.

Linkage studies suggested that a quantitative trait locus (QTL) for blood pressure (BP) was present in a region on chromosome 17 (Chr 17) of Dahl salt-sensitive (DSS) rats. A subsequent congenic strain targeting this QTL, however, could not confirm it. These conflicting results called into question the validity of localization of a QTL by linkage followed by the use of a congenic strain made with an incomplete chromosome coverage.