Most Popular Books by Anne Miller

A storybook for children where they join Ben and Bella the Burnsafe Superheroes on their adventures as they learn more about burn prevention and burn first aid.

Task specific training has been shown to be an effective neuromotor rehabilitation intervention. However, these tasks are often repetitive and encompass a combination of activities of daily living. Virtual reality (VR) systems are becoming increasingly popular as a therapeutic tool due to their ability to create a fully customizable dynamic simulation model. This study's primary aim is to characterize how biomechanical joint angles are impacted by direction and location of the movement tasks. The secondary aim of this study is to determine if joint angle biomechanics for a specific task are significantly impacted by a parallel task condition: unilateral (one arm at a time), mirrored (both arms moving in the same direction), or opposing (both arms moving in opposite directions) motion. Healthy participants (n=16), without any upper limb injuries, were asked to play a commercially available VR game known as Beat Saber, using customized levels. The levels were separated into unilateral, mirrored, or opposing tasks. Within each level the movements were organized by hand, height, vertical position, and direction of the cut. Results allowed the kinematics characterization for each movement task factor. Horizontal tasks included inward and outward motions as well as decrease wrist extension. Vertical tasks included upward and downward tasks, as well as providing higher targets. Such tasks were found to increase shoulder flexion, wrist radial deviation, wrist ulnar deviation, and elbow flexion. The further the target was from the shoulder joint center, the more shoulder flexion and abduction occurred, for all directions. Mirrored and unilateral motions often exaggerated joint angles, while opposing motions muted the metrics.

Assists teachers to plan and implement resilience, drug and road safety education programs in the context of health and physical education.

All of these examples of Odysseus in Latin literature demonstrate how Roman authors use this particular Homeric epic hero to articulate issues that are temporally and culturally specific to Rome. Roman authors furthermore reimagine Odysseus in Roman terms and contexts in an effort to construct and tear down bridges between their own Roman culture and that of their Greek predecessors, which in turn renders Odysseus as a stand-in for the Latin literary tradition vis-à-vis the Greek literary tradition.

Activities and resources for six sessions suitable for children, youth or intergenerational study.

D-Limonene is a lipid-soluble bioactive food component found in citrus peel. It has demonstrated strong chemopreventive effects in rodent mammary, gastric, skin, liver, and lung cancers and is correlated with a significantly reduced risk for human squamous cell skin carcinoma. Because d-limonene is fat-soluble, it may have enhanced chemopreventive activity in fatty tissues such as breast. No previous methodology to quantify d-limonene in the adipose had been developed which significantly limited d-limonene tissue distribution research. For this research, an assay to extract d-limonene from adipose tissue and quantify with GC/MS was developed and validated. Linear calibration curves were established over the range of 0.0-2,526 ng d-limonene. Extraction recovery was 80%. Satisfactory within day precision (RSD 6.75 to 9.56%) and accuracy (% difference of 2-4%) were achieved. This sensitive, accurate, and precise assay to quantify d-limonene in adipose can be used for future human or animal fatty tissue deposition studies.

Describes the many uses of sand, what it looks like, where it is found, and how it is formed.