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The electrical stimulation (ES) according to Jantsch was created with a primary aim to reduce spasticity, however its impact has been neither proved nor disproved by any study. Therefore, the aim of the thesis is to find out if this type of the ES can reduce spasticity of m. triceps surae within the patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Apart from the spasticity, there was as well observed the influence of the ES on an active movement performed by the antagonists of spastic muscle and the walking speed. Fifteen probands participated in our pilot controlled non- randomized study, probands were divided into two groups - first with the application of the ES (STIM) and second without the application of the ES (NOSTIM) during the hospitalization. We used the concept of Jean-Michel Graciese - Five-step clinical assessment in spastic paresis during the examination process. From this protocol, we choose Tardieu scale to measure spasticity, examination to measure active range of motion and 10MWT. Furthermore, TUG was added. The measurements took place on the 1st, 4th and 8th day of the hospitalization. The intragroup difference was evaluated by the ANOVA for repetitive measures with Fisher's post- hoc test and the level of importance p=0.05. From acquired data it follows that the ES according to Jantsch...

The relationship between religion and reproductive behavior in demographic perspective Abstract The aim of this thesis is to provide a deeper discussion of the relationship of religion to reproductive behavior at the theoretical, methodological and practical level. The secondary objective is to introduce a recently formed branch called religious demography. The main part of the thesis is of a theoretical and methodological character, and is built on the comprehensive elaboration of the foreign literature, which is dealing with the theme of religion and reproductive behavior. In the first chapter, the latest processes and changes that occur on the religious scene and difficulties associated just with the research in this area are described. The second chapter is dealing with general methodological problems, which are mainly related to the operationalization of religion and the availability of data needed to examine the relationship of religion to reproductive behavior. The third chapter then presents two demographic prospects, which reveal two different ways of relationships, showing how to deal with the religion and the demographic reproduction. In the final part a model example is introduced, based on principles of religious demography. The example is built on data of the individual categories of...

Content: This article wants to combine two perspectives: First, Leather production, focused on the splitting process, with its diverse quality requirements and second, the new evolutions in the field of bandknife properties. In a short introduction the splitting process as such will be described, its different use in several stages and leather types, also in the field of leather conversion (in shoe, leathergoods and automotive parts production). Influencing factors of the possible goals like quality and cost efficiency will be discussed. In the second part some main requirements and problem fields of leather splitting are analyzed in more detail. Requirements such as thickness tolerance, tensile strength, flexibility, fibre-free smooth cutting surface. Difficulties in practice like chrome nests, hard water, poor raw material, feeding speed, influence of abrasivity of leather. In a third part the physics of the cutting process as such will be described. Explanation of basic terms as “cutting ability”, “edge retention”, “pull vs. press cut”. Resulting from this we get important parameters that refer to the bandknife blade: e.g. steel characteristics (hardness, flexibility, grindeability, microstructure at cutting point, geometry of knife bevels, weldability etc.). The possibilities in modern bandknife production will be shown as for example: CNC-sensor-based tolerance measurements, presharpening, surface roughness variations. This is completed with a short view on the other components of the process like splitting machine (points like sharpness measuring), grinding stones (roughness-exactness controversy diagram). The fourth and last part puts the two perspectives together: Optimized bandknife characteristics for specific leather material. Alternative steel types that due to new properties allow to meet also new requirements. Take-Away: Optimization of the splitting process Better understanding of the bandknife properties

The thesis deals with the Jesus' logia about vocation contained in Matthew 8, taking into account the synoptic parallel of the text in Luke. The original Greek text is, first, translated into Czech and then linguistically analyzed. The thesis further examines the original setting of the logia and their foundation in the hypothetical Q source. With the help of selected commentators (France, Hagner, Osborne, Fausti) are the logia and their meaning interpreted within the wider context of contemporary research. These modern interpretations are supplemented by views of the early Church Fathers. The method used in the present thesis is the analysis of the original text and a comparison of relevant commentaries.

1 Abstract Electrical stimulation by coupled impulses according to Hufschmidt was created with the primary goal of reducing spasticity. However, there are currently few studies that confirm or refute the effect of this type of electrical stimulation in reducing spasticity. The aim of this diploma thesis was to determine the effect of electrostimulation according to Hufschmidt on the reduction of biceps brachii spasticity in patients after stroke. In addition, the effect of electrical stimulation on increasing the active range of movement of the antagonist of the examined muscle and on the active function of the spastic limb was investigated. For these purposes, a non-randomized controlled pilot study was created, which involved a total of 16 probands, 8 - in the therapeutic group, 8 - in the control group. Five-step clinical assessment in spastic paresis according to Gracies were used for the examination. In the therapeutic group, electrostimulation took place 3 times a week, a total of 8 times. The intragroup difference was evaluated using the Friedman and Wilcoxon paired tests, the intergroup difference was subsequently evaluated using the Mann-Whitney U test. The significance level p = 0.05 applies to all tests. The measured values show that Hufschmidt's electrical stimulation has a positive effect on...

Extremamente conhecida, a obra de José Saramago é comumente lida por certos vieses: às vezes em seu caráter social (quando não sociológico) que aproxima seus textos de uma perspectiva marxista, utópica ou empenhada, relegando suas qualidades literárias em segundo plano; outras em seu caráter imanentista, que avalia os processos de composição interna e/ou artifícios de que se vale o escritor, quando não seu caráter intertextual, intratextual ou em comparação a outros textos e escritores; por fim, há a tentativa de pensar sua obra como um conjunto gradual em construção, um sistema processual que apresenta a cada novo texto um elemento em crescimento, como se sua escrita fosse evolutiva. Filiados a uma corrente teórica literária que busca pensar a produção escrita, nosso intuito é a de pensar a obra de Saramago dando valor a seus elementos intrínsecos, sem nos esquecermos de suas relações sociais, engajadas e (inter)textuais. A partir dessa problematização inicial, nos propomos a apresentar uma ideia do que seja literário em seu imbricamento social, mimético e ficcional para, a partir desse viés, avaliar a ligação da obra em análise com o social através do conceito de épistémè. A isso acresceremos uma leitura de como esses dois elementos se juntam ao mito para formar um todo coeso e significativo. A fim de delimitar o objeto da pesquisa, a parte central de nossas análises se divide em três seções: a primeira analisa Levantado do chão, em cujas linhas temos a mescla de uma configuração míticoliterária ao engajamento social marxista, a segunda aprecia O evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo, que pensa a releitura mítica da figura de Cristo em forma trágica e, por fim, a terceira seção analisa Caim, romance de linhas abertas a tal ponto que possibilita uma flutuação de leituras. Por meio das reflexões alcançadas, intentamos fornecer um solo concreto para a exploração de uma hipótese: que a literatura saramaguiana privilegia a produção de uma épistémè ficcional, elemento básico para compreensão de seu projeto enquanto fenômeno literário, social e, ainda, (inter)textual. / Extremely well-known, José Saramago\'s work is still read only by certain slants: sometimes in its social (if not sociological) character that approaches its texts from a Marxist, utopian or committed perspective, relegating its literary qualities to the background; others in its immanentist character, that assesses the processes of internal composition and/or artifices of which the writer is worth, if not its intertextual, intratextual character or in comparison to other texts and writers; Finally, there is the attempt to think his work as a gradual set in construction, a processual system that presents in each new text a growing element, as if its writing were evolutionary. Affiliated to a literary theoretical chain that seeks to think about written production, our intention is to think of Saramago\'s work giving value to its intrinsic elements, without forgetting its social relations, engaged and (inter) textual. From this initial discuss, we propose to present an idea of what is literary in its social, mimetic and fictional imbrication to, from this bias, to evaluate the connection of the work in analysis with the social through the concept of épistémè. It is added on this, a reading that seeks how these two elements join the myth to form a cohesive and meaningful whole. In order to delimit the object of the research, the central part of our analysis is divided into three sections: the first analyzes \"Raised from the ground\", in whose lines we have the merge of a mythical-literary configuration to Marxist social engagement, the second refer to \"The gospel according to Jesus Christ\", that carries througth a mythical re-reading of the Christ´s figure in a tragic way, and finally the third section analyzes Cain, a novel with open lines to such an extent that it allows a fluctuation of readings. Through the reflections achieved, we try to provide a concrete ground for the exploration of a hypothesis: that the Saramaguian literature favors the production of a fictional epistemic, a basic element for understanding its project as a literary, social, and (inter)textual phenomenon.