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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-58). Also available in electronic version.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-112). Also available in electronic version.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-93). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / This is a study of the social content of 50 Readers used in the education of young American students during the Reconstruction Era, 1863-1877. Analyses of social content from every tenth page of text reveal themes that emerge from a framework of nine categories-character, religion, nature, nation, other cultures, family, education, gender/class, adventure/fantasy-that define the nation. In addition to these analyses, the study presents one Reader in its entirety and two Readers written especially for the freedmen. Plentiful selections from the Readers allow users of the study to arrive at their own conclusions about how well or how poorly the Reconstruction-era Readers were guiding future directions. The fundamental finding is that nineteenth-century Americans believed that moral character was the bedrock of the nation and that it needed to be fostered in the young. / 2031-01-02

Background: Knee injuries have a considerable impact on both the person’s psychological and physical health. We currently have tools to address each of these aspects but they are often considered independent of each other. Little work has been done to consolidate the subjective and objective functional ability of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injured individuals, which can be detrimental when implementing a return-to-play decision-making scheme. The lack of understanding concerning the relationship of these two measures may account for the high incidence of re-injury rates and lower quality of life exhibited by so many of these patients. Purpose: The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to investigate the relationship between subjective and objective measures of functional ability in ACL deficient and ACL reconstructed conditions through biomechanical and neuromusculoskeletal modelling approaches. Methods: This thesis is comprised of five studies based on a single in vivo data collection protocol, medical imaging and in silico data analyses. The in vivo data collection was of test-retest design where ACL deficient patients participated prior to their operation and approximately ten months post-reconstruction. This experimental group was matched to a healthy, uninjured control group, which was tested a single time. The first study of this thesis involved a descriptive analysis of spatiotemporal, neuromuscular, and biomechanical patterns during hopping and side cut tasks in addition to subjective functional ability questionnaires. Then, two novel measures of dynamic knee joint control were developed and applied along with a third measure to determine if changes in joint control exist between the three groups (Study 2). The relationships of these objective measures of functional ability to subjective measures were then examined through correlation and regression models (Study 3). Following this, a method of including magnetic resonance imaging to construct patient-specific models was developed and implemented to determine realistic kinematic and ligament lengthening profiles (Study 4). These patient-specific models were then applied to quantify knee joint loading in the form of contact and ligament forces, which were correlated to subjective measures of functional ability (Study 5). Results: Even though no major differences in neuromuscular patterns were observed between all three groups, it was found that subjective patient-reported outcome measures scores and biomechanical measures in the form of knee flexion angles and extensor moments were lower in the ACL deficient group compared to healthy controls. These differences continued to exist 10 months post-operation as the ACL reconstructed group had not fully recovered to patterns observed in the healthy controls. The current findings also suggest a possible hierarchy in the relationships between objective and subjective measures of functional ability. Basic kinematic objective measures such as knee flexion angle show small to moderate correlations, while more comprehensive measures such as stiffness and joint compressive force show moderate to strong correlations to subjective questionnaires. Finally, this thesis developed patient-specific OpenSim models that were used to produce appropriate kinematics and ligament lengthening with the reduction in soft tissue artefact. Conclusion: This thesis demonstrated that patients who are high-functioning in the ACL deficient state show greater improvements in subjective outcome scores after ACL reconstruction compared to objective measures. Biomechanical and neuromusculoskeletal modelling approaches identified important differences between the healthy and ACL deficient groups that were not resolved post-operatively. Our results also demonstrate that certain subjective and objective measures of functional ability are strongly correlated. The knowledge gained from this test-retest design and novel patient-specific in silico models aids clinicians in managing their expectations regarding the effectiveness of reconstruction and the respective long-term sequelae.