THE EFFECT OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FOCUS OF ATTENTION ON ACQUISITION, RETENTION AND TRANSFER OF DART THROWING IN MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN

The Effect of Internal and External Focus of Attention on Acquisition, Retention and Transfer of Dart Throwing in Mentally Retarded Children

The aim Safety Boots of this study was to investigate the effect of focus of attention on learning dart throwing in mentally retarded children.In this quasi-experimental study, 22 mentally retarded boys (age 10-12 years old) were randomly selected according to IQ (50-70) and were assigned to two homogenous attention (internal, external) groups afte

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An innovative nonpharmacological intervention combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia increased patient global improvement in pain and satisfaction after major surgery

Chia-Chun Chuang,1 Chien-Ching Lee,1,2 Li-Kai Wang,1 Bor-Shyh Lin,2 Wen-Ju Wu,1 Chung-Han Ho,3 Jen-Yin Chen1,4 1Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, 2Department of Imaging and Biomedical Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, 3Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, 4Department of the Senior Citizen Service

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Evaluation of Calf Muscular Function During the Recovery Phase After the Repair of an Achilles Tendon Rupture

Background: During the recovery phase after the repair of an Achilles tendon rupture, measuring calf muscular function is important for predicting prognosis.Tensiomyography (TMG) is a selective and non-invasive diagnostic method for skeletal muscular contractile properties based on the displacement of the muscle belly.Case Presentation: Tensiomyogr

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Separation of Zirconium and Hafnium by Extraction with 2-octanol.

Zirconium and hafnium are shown to be separable using 2-octanol (C8H18O) as an extractant.Zirconium basic carbonate was dissolved using hydrochloric acids at concentrations ranging from 5 % to 20 %.Potassium fluoride was found to be crucial to the process.Its effect was investigated in the concentration range of 1 M to 3 M.The optimum conditions ob

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