Fatigue After Stroke Educational Recovery Program: A Prospective, Phase III, Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Poststroke fatigue affects ≈50% of patients with stroke, causing significant personal, societal, and economic burden. In the FASTER (Fatigue After Stroke Educational Recovery) study, we assessed a group-based educational intervention for poststroke fatigue.

Methods And Results: Two hundred patients with clinically significant fatigue were included and randomized to either a general stroke education control or fatigue management group (FMG) intervention and assessed at baseline, 6 weeks, and 3 months.

Stroke Is Not an Accident: An Integrative Review on the Use of the Term Cerebrovascular Accident.

Background: Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is an outdated term for describing stroke as it implies stroke is an accident. We conducted an integrative review to examine the use of CVA in terms of (1) frequency in major medical journals over time; (2) associated publication characteristics (e.g.

Insights from ARCOS-V's Transition to Remote Data Collection during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Study.

Introduction: The ARCOS-V study, an epidemiological study on stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA), faced the challenge of continuing data collection amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to describe the methodological changes and challenges encountered during the transition from paper-based methods to digital data collection for the ARCOS-V study and to provide insights into the potential of using digital tools to transform epidemiological research.

Methods: The study adapted to remote data collection using REDCap and Zoom, involving daily health record reviews, direct data entry by trained researchers, and remote follow-up assessments.

Normative Data for the NeuroCom Sensory Organization Test in United States Military Academy Boxers.

Background: Balance function is a key indicator in the identification of and recovery from concussion. The NeuroCom Sensory Organization Test (SOT) is used to objectively quantify balance using input from the visual, vestibular, and somatosensory systems. Baseline tests are necessary for comparison post-concussion.

Mitigating offset frequency drift in frequency combs using a customized power law dispersion.

We introduce a new, to the best of our knowledge, passive technique of mitigating the phase noise in optical frequency combs (FC) by reducing the drift of offset frequency. This can be achieved by customizing the dispersion to attain a power law dependence of the wave vector on frequency, ()∼, ensuring a constant ratio between group and phase velocities. When this condition is maintained, the drift offset frequency is passively mitigated, and phase noise is reduced.

Electrical dry needling as an adjunct to exercise, manual therapy and ultrasound for plantar fasciitis: A multi-center randomized clinical trial.

Study Design: Randomized, single-blinded, multi-center, parallel-group trial.

Objectives: To compare the effects of adding electrical dry needling into a program of manual therapy, exercise and ultrasound on pain, function and related-disability in individuals with plantar fasciitis (PF).

Background: The isolated application of electrical dry needling, manual therapy, exercise, and ultrasound has been found to be effective for PF.

Temporal characteristics of quantum cascade laser frequency modulated combs in long wave infrared and THz regions.

We consider here a time domain model representing the dynamics of quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) generating frequency combs (FCs) in both THz and long wave infrared (LWIR λ = 8-12µm) spectral ranges. Using common specifications for these QCLs we confirm that the free running laser enters a regime of operation yielding a pseudo-randomly frequency modulated (FM) radiation in the time domain corresponding to FCs with stable phase relations in the frequency domain. We provide an explanation for this unusual behavior as a consequence of competition for the most efficient regime of operation.

New extension software modules to enhance searching and display of transcriptome data in Tripal databases.

Database Url Tripal Elasticsearch Module: https://github.com/tripal/tripal_elasticsearch.

Tripal Analysis Expression Module: https://github.

The green ash transcriptome and identification of genes responding to abiotic and biotic stresses.

Background: To develop a set of transcriptome sequences to support research on environmental stress responses in green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica), we undertook deep RNA sequencing of green ash tissues under various stress treatments. The treatments, including emerald ash borer (EAB) feeding, heat, drought, cold and ozone, were selected to mimic the increasing threats of climate change and invasive pests faced by green ash across its native habitat.

Results: We report the generation and assembly of RNA sequences from 55 green ash samples into 107,611 putative unique transcripts (PUTs).

Osteochondroma fracture at the distal medial femur.

The patient was a 27-year-old man currently serving in the military who was evaluated by a physical therapist in a direct-access mode of care for a chief complaint of worsening left distal medial thigh pain. Given the traumatic mechanism of injury, worsening symptoms, and the presence of a painful, firm mass in the left distal medial thigh region, the physical therapist ordered radiographs of the left femur, which demonstrated a fracture at the base of an 8.5-cm osteochondroma located at the distal medial femur.

Clinical and electrodiagnostic abnormalities of the median nerve in US Army Dental Assistants at the onset of training.

Purpose/hypothesis: Dental personnel including dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants have been reported as having a high prevalence of upper-extremity musculoskeletal disorders, including carpal tunnel syndrome. Previous research has not involved dental assistant students at the onset of dental training. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the presence of median and ulnar neuropathies in US Army dental assistants at the onset of their training.

Acetylation of cellulose nanowhiskers with vinyl acetate under moderate conditions.

A novel and straightforward method for the surface acetylation of cellulose nanowhiskers by transesterification of vinyl acetate is proposed. The reaction of vinyl acetate with the hydroxyl groups of cellulose nanowhiskers obtained from cotton linters was examined with potassium carbonate as catalyst. Results indicate that during the first stage of the reaction, only the surface of the nanowhiskers was modified, while their dimensions and crystallinity remained unchanged.

Recognition of escape variants in ELISPOT does not always predict CD8+ T-cell recognition of simian immunodeficiency virus-infected cells expressing the same variant sequences.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)'s tremendous sequence variability is a major obstacle for the development of cytotoxic-T-lymphocyte-based vaccines, especially since much of this variability is selected for by CD8(+) T cells. We investigated to what extent reactivity to escape variant peptides in standard enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) assays predicts the recognition of cells infected with corresponding escape variant viruses. Most of the variant peptides tested were recognized in standard ELISPOT and intracellular cytokine stain (ICS) assays.