PROFILE OF STROKE PATIENTS TREATED AT A COMMUNITY - BASED REHABILITATION CENTRE IN A CAPE TOWN HEALTH DISTRICT

Profile of stroke patients treated at a community - based rehabilitation centre in a Cape Town health district

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in both developed and developing countries.Limited information is available, in South Africa, on the epidemiological profile of stroke survivors requiring rehabilitation.A descriptive study was therefore undertaken to compile, amongst others the demographic and medical profile of stroke patients att

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Ionospheric control of space weather

As proposed by Saka (2019), plasma injections arising out of the auroral ionosphere (ionospheric injection) are a characteristic process of the polar ionosphere at substorm onset.The ionospheric injection is triggered by westward electric fields transmitted from the convection surge in the magnetosphere at field line dipolarization.Localized westwa

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Confound modelling in UK Biobank brain imaging

Dealing with confounds is an essential step in large cohort studies to address problems such as unexplained Defrost Element Kit variance and spurious correlations.UK Biobank is a powerful resource for studying associations between imaging and non-imaging measures such as lifestyle factors and health outcomes, in part because of the large subject nu

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