Discussing dying in the diaspora: attitudes towards advance care planning among first generation Dutch and Italian migrants in rural Australia.

Western cultural practices and values have largely shaped advance care planning (ACP) policies across the world. Low uptake of ACP among ethnic minority groups in Western countries has been interpreted with reference to cultural differences. This paper adopts a life-history approach to explore attitudes towards ACP among older, first-generation Dutch-Australian and Italian-Australian migrants.

Influence of vision and motor imagery styles on equilibrium control during whole-body rotations.

To investigate the influence of vision and motor imagery styles on equilibrium control, displacements of the supporting foot during spontaneous whole-body rotations ("pirouette") by expert female ballet dancers were analyzed using three-dimensional kinematics. Four turn types were defined according to direction (clockwise, CW vs. counterclockwise, CCW) and supporting foot (SF, left vs.

Right hemisphere in visual regulation of complex equilibrium: the female ballet dancers' experience.

Objective: To analyse the interaction between visual restrictions and somatosensory disturbances on unipedal control equilibrium with or without classical dance training.

Methods: The support (computerized force platform) was disturbed during roll and pitch sways in association with restriction of the left and right visual hemifields (selective nasal and temporal hemiretina goggles). The effect of training by comparing spontaneous dynamic equilibrium (spectral analysis of body sways) between 14 healthy female right-sided untrained and expert dancers was assessed.

A counterclockwise bias in running.

A bias in spontaneous turning has been observed in several animal species, at the individual or group level. There has been no consensus so far on the existence of such a bias in humans, probably due to lack of control of the factors likely to modulate this bias. We tested the spontaneous behavior of thirteen human adults required to run around a circle in an empty, symmetrical space, as a function of starting position (from the left, the center, or the right), and gaze direction (to one of five targets going from left to right).

What are the factors responsible for the deviation in stepping on the spot?

Without vision, keeping a straight-ahead direction while stepping on the spot is almost impossible, everybody deviates more or less. Several explanations for this, such as laterality, vestibulo-spinal influence, dopamine system, have been proposed. The aims of the experiment presented here were (1) to quantify the lateral deviation when stepping using a modified Fukuda test apparatus, and (2) to determine the factors potentially underlying such deviation.

Spontaneous whole body rotations and classical dance expertise: how shoulder-hip coordination influences supporting leg displacements.

The link between supporting leg stability and individual trunk strategies used during spontaneous whole-body rotations was studied according to visual and kinesthetic imagery styles for classical dancers and untrained female participants. Shoulders-hip angles in the horizontal plane and supporting leg (SL) displacements were analyzed with three-dimensional kinematic at the beginning and end of the four turns, identified according to their SL (left vs. right) and turn direction (clockwise, CW vs.

Skin-infiltrating CD8+ T cells initiate atopic dermatitis lesions.

Skin lesions in the allergic form of atopic dermatitis (AD) are induced by allergen-specific T cells that infiltrate the skin at the site of allergen exposure. Although Th2-type CD4+ T cells appear to be crucial in AD pathophysiology, little is known about the contribution of CD8+ T cells in the development of the allergic skin inflammation. In the present study, we have analyzed the respective role of CD8+ and CD4+ T cells in the development of AD skin lesions in a mouse model of allergen-induced AD.