scholarly journals The Role of Rehabilitation in Peripheral Paralysis of the Facial Nerve: A Case Report of a Patient Treated with a Neuro-Cognitive Approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mariaconsiglia Calabrese ◽  
M. Ciriello ◽  
Mariaconsiglia Calabrese
Keyword(s):  
Facial Nerve ◽  
Surgical Removal ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Recovery Times ◽  
The Face ◽  
Quality Of Movement ◽  
Functional Components

Peripheral paralysis of the facial nerve is a pathology that, although not involves any risks for the patient's life, significantly affects not only motor, but also communicative, psychological, and social aspects, having an important impact on the quality of life. The most widely used therapeutic proposals do not always respond to the need to intervene on all the functional components related to the facial nerve, but to prevent and treat complications. The neuro-cognitive proposal, although not found in the literature or in the biomedical databases, takes into account the motor, communicative, verbal and non-verbal functions related to facial mimic, as well as the cognitive-exploratory function of some districts of the face and intervenes following the phases of nervous recovery limiting an abnormal reinnervation. The case reported concerns a patient with a paralysis caused by surgical removal of acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma), with grade III on the House-Brackmann scale, seems to be an example of how an approach of this type is constructed in such a way as to follow the various phases of recovery of the peripheral nerve injury, promoting the recovery of the various functions related to the facial. The patient evaluated with the Sunnybrook Facial Grading System (SFGS) went from 21/100 to 92/100 and did not develop synkinesias after about 5 months of treatment. The neuro-cognitive approach would seem to progressively improve the quality of movement. Moreover, being selective with respect to muscle recruitment and inserted in a functional perspective that respects recovery times, it would seem to limit the appearance of pathological sequelae such as synkinesias and spasms.

scholarly journals Budowanie relacji interpersonalnych w klasach I–III w warunkach nauczania zdalnego

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kosek ◽  
Agata Wolska
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Contact Distance ◽  
Learning Conditions ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Face ◽  
Teachers And Parents

Building Interpersonal Relationships in Grades 1–3 in Distance Learning Conditions Interpersonal relations are an integral part of living in society. Interpersonal competences combine activities related to communication, making new friends, solving problems or cooperating with others. Therefore, they are extremely important at every educational stage. However, building proper relations among education participants becomes more difficult when schools around the world switch to distance learning due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Relations between teachers and students, as well as among classmates, often undergoes various modifications, frequently deteriorating the quality of mutual contact. Distance education has also changed the role of pupils’ parents. The new situation often required from them to adapt to their child’s schedule in order to support them and help them in learning. This particularly applies to the families with younger children. In order to explain these issues, this article will present the results of research conducted among teachers and parents of pupils from grades 1–3 on the relationship at a pupil–pupil and a student–teacher level. The didactic and educational activities of teachers that are undertaken by them in order to improve contact on both these levels in the face of the new reality will also be discussed. The article will also address the topic of transformations of the abovementioned relations, which took place during and after the transition to compulsory distance learning.

scholarly journals Social Exclusion and Austerity Policies in England: The Role of Sports in a New Area of Social Polarisation and Inequality?

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Collins ◽  
Rein Haudenhuyse
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Leisure Sports ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Socially Excluded

Poverty still counts as the core of social exclusion from sport and many other domains of people’s lives. In the first part of this paper, we shortly describe the recent poverty trends in England, and identify groups that are more at-risk of being poor and socially excluded. We then focus on the relationship between poverty, social exclusion and leisure/sports participation, and describe a case study that addresses young people’s social exclusion through the use of sports (i.e., <em>Positive Futures</em>). Although further analysis is warranted, it would seem that growing structural inequalities (including sport participation)—with their concomitant effects on health and quality of life—are further widened and deepened by the policy measures taken by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in the UK. In addition, within a climate of austerity, sport-based social inclusion schemes are likely to become wholly inadequate in the face of exclusionary forces such schemes envision to combat.

Role of anthropological opinion in verification of eyewitness identification result

2017 ◽  
Vol 297 ◽  
pp. 50-58
Author(s):  
Piotr Herbowski ◽  
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Dorota Lorkiewicz-Muszyńska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eyewitness Identification ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Criminal Trial ◽  
Front Part ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Probative Value ◽  
The Face

Probative value of results obtained in the course of legal proceedings with the participants of the criminal act may vary. This also concerns results of identification by an eyewitness. The exceptional role of its result in the criminal trial derives from the fact that categorical identification of a suspect by the witness becomes directly incriminating evidence. Problems connected with verification of identification parade result, which often occur both in Poland and in other countries, have been presented on the basis of a real criminal case. The main evidence submitted by the prosecutor was identification of several people who had been suspected of theft by an eye witness. Some important doubts relating to their guilt, however, arose in the criminal trial in court several years after the crime. The court decided to use the help of an expert in the field of anthropological identification. Comprehensive analysis of the CCTV recordings from the crime scene and additional examinations carried out by an expert made it possible to verify the results of the identification parade objectively and precisely. For the defendants the anthropological opinion was just exculpatory evidence. However, it opened up new possibilities to obtain information, especially when low quality of CCTV recordings does not allow for a detailed analysis of the characteristics of morphological elements of the head including its front part which is the face.

scholarly journals The Role of Fiscal Expenditure Rules in Maintaining the Financial Stability of the State

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Ewa Lotko
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The State ◽  
Fiscal Rules ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Eu

Abstract One of the main challenges which legal science faces nowadays is the creation of legal mechanisms guaranteeing sound public finance. The aim of this article is to assess the role of national fiscal rules in maintaining financial stability. Firstly, to fulfil this aim, the role of fiscal rules and their efficiency was analysed. Next, based on the commonly used tool assessing the quality of national fiscal rules – the Fiscal Rule Index – the quality of expenditure rules in the EU countries was analysed in order to evaluate the Polish stabilising expenditure rule and the escape clause of its application. Therefore, the following research question is to be answered: whether in the face of an unstable financial situation of the state connected with an increasing deficit, deviation from the stabilising expenditure rule should be considered as being right. Research methods based on non-reactive research, i.e., analysis of professional literature, legal acts, and statistical data published by the European Commission, were used in this article. Due to this analysis, it was indicated that expenditure rules are regarded as one of the most effective tools to manage public funds, and therefore any derogations from the application of these rules should be evaluated negatively.

Proteins—Their Chemistry and Politics

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-304
Author(s):  
THOMAS E. CONE
Keyword(s):  
Political Stability ◽  
World Population ◽  
Human Diet ◽  
The Face ◽  
World Protein ◽  
Protein Supply ◽  
Major Emphasis ◽  
Vexing Problem

This book wrtten in a reasonably non-technical style deals with diverse subjects which have in common the word "protein." The major emphasis is on two important and related topics—the role of proteins in the human diet and the terribly vexing problem of how to go about improving the quantity and quality of world protein supply. Protein and politics are linked together because, unless we learn how to provide an adequate amount of this foodstuff to meet at least the minimum needs of our expanding world population, we shall continue to see little political stability in the face of mass hunger.

The Role of Aperture in the Extraction of Functional Components From Plant Materials

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianqian Di ◽  
Junhong Yang ◽  
Jun Zhao ◽  
Liqiu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Extraction Yield ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Extraction Technology ◽  
Plant Materials ◽  
Assisted Extraction ◽  
Important Processing ◽  
Functional Components

The extraction of functional components from natural plant is one of important processing in the development and further practical application of plant product. Microwave assisted extraction (MAE) has been widely used in the extraction of many samples for its unique heating mechanism, short extraction time and high yield of extract. Astragalus slice is a special and typical plant porous media. We describe an approach by scanning electronic microscope (SEM) to characterize the trachea and aperture of Astragalus slices irradiated 20 min by microwave at 600 W and 900 W, with the aim to analyze the effect of the microwave power on the extraction yield by SEM and discuss further the relationship between the microstructure characteristics of sample and mechanism on mass transfer in micro-scale. It is found that extract with the 20 min irradiation of microwave at 600 W is higher than that at 900 W because the apertures on the trachea wall remain open at 600 W, but shrink at 900 W. Moreover, we confirm the important role of the aperture in the extraction of plant materials. Therefore, this study has significant meanings to develop the optimized extraction technology of plant porous media and maintain or improve the quality of extract.

scholarly journals Transformative Investments in Sustainable Economic Development: Infrastructure Aspect

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 03031
Author(s):  
Elena Dvoryadkina ◽  
Gulnara Kvon ◽  
Olga Pozdeeva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Face ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The article is devoted to the study of the role of infrastructure in the sustainable development of the economy, the investment of which makes it possible to ensure the achievement of social and environmental results along with economic ones. This type of investment has great potential in solving global problems of mankind, providing a positive impact on the economies of various countries. Mobilizing investment in infrastructure that catalyzes the improvement of environmental, social and political processes in economic systems stimulates the development of industries and often must precede this. The relevance of transformative investments is growing in the face of a lack of resources of governments of various states to address the priority problems of overcoming poverty, social inequality and reducing social tensions in this regard. Despite the fact that transformative investment is a relatively new topic, which is reflected in various discussions at the global level, the implementation of this form of investment to achieve the UN sustainable development goals in order to ensure a decent standard and quality of life for the population contributes to the creation of favorable conditions for interaction between countries.

International agreement design and the moderating role of domestic bureaucratic quality

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Karreth ◽  
Jaroslav Tir
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Water Conflict ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Interstate Cooperation ◽  
The Face ◽  
Using Data

Much of international cooperation research has long assumed that building and deepening (i.e. institutionalizing) international agreements can substitute for weak domestic bureaucratic capacity when it comes to promoting cooperative policies between countries. Qualifying this assumption, we argue that domestic bureaucracies are a key piece of international cooperation: the cooperation-inducing effect of international institutions is conditional on the quality of domestic bureaucracies. We examine this relationship in the context of the politics of interstate cooperation over transboundary rivers, an important test case given concerns about looming water conflict in the face of increasing water scarcity. Using data on freshwater-related events, 1984–2006, on the level of institutionalization of river treaties, and on the quality of domestic bureaucracy, we find that domestic bureaucracies moderate the ability of international institutions to elicit cooperative interstate behavior. The finding is robust to a multitude of specifications and provides important implications for institutional research and policy approaches to cooperation problems beyond freshwater.

scholarly journals Assessing Competency of Community Healthcare Workers

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 377-380
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Core Competency ◽  
Community Healthcare ◽  
Accredited Social Health Activist ◽  
The Face ◽  
Community Healthcare Workers

Background: Community healthcare workers (CHW) play an important role in preventive healthcare system in India. CHW link the community to the health system of the country. As the population in India covers majorly in village, community healthcare workers are the face of the healthcare. These CHW competencies are yet to be ascertained. Objectives: To determine standardized framework for competency of the Community healthcare workers in India. Methods: By using structured questionnaire with 5 point Likert scale is implemented to evaluate the competency of CHW. Respondents are 35 participants including Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), Medical social worker and diabetes educator in and around Chennai. Findings: Suggested that community health workers are highly competent. More clarity in role of community healthcare workers is required. Government should initiate program to nurture the service quality of primary centers, equipment, manpower facility in health centers, etc Training regarding the maternity care and communication skills are core competency required for a CHW to perform his/her role properly. Conclusions: The results of the study show that CHW of India is also competent. Community healthcare workers are contributing more in maternal care and preventive care. They put more effort in health education and sanitation in rural areas.

scholarly journals AVALIAÇÃO PSICOLÓGICA NA RECUPERAÇÃO FUNCIONAL ATRAVÉS DA REALIDADE VIRTUAL: uma nova perspectiva

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Charles Henrique Andrade de Oliveira ◽  
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João Ricard Pereira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Multiprofessional Team ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Traditional Procedure ◽  
The Face ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Symbolic Processes

This article proposes a discussion, through the research carried out, on the use of virtual reality as a tool for obtaining data that covers psychological assessment in functional recovery, reaffirming the importance of Psychology as a science in a performance in a multiprofessional team whose main objective it is the improvement in the quality of life for people inserted in the rehabilitation process, working their subjectivity processes within an interprofessional intervention. A way of approaching the area of Psychology in technological areas with more specific scientific studies and reflecting the role of the professional in evaluating unobservable characteristics directly in a virtual environment, considering their uniqueness, their symbolic processes, their emotions, in the face of a non-traditional procedure and more motivating and interactive, placing the user as active in this process. The psychology professional must expand the use of tools, such as virtual reality, in order to seek new psychological assessment techniques.

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