VIRTUAL REALITY-BASED TREATMENT FOR REGAINING UPPER EXTREMITY FUNCTION INDUCES CORTEX GREY MATTER CHANGES IN PERSONS WITH ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY

Virtual reality-based treatment for regaining upper extremity function induces cortex grey matter changes in persons with acquired brain injury

Abstract Background Individuals with acquired brain injuries (ABI) are in need of neurorehabilitation and neurorepair.Virtual anatomical interactivity (VAI) presents a digital game-like format in which ABI survivors with upper limb paresis use an unaffected limb to control a standard input device and a commonplace computer mouse to control virtual

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Life cycle cost analysis for managing rail infrastructure

In the last decade managing railway infrastructure in Europe has changed compared to the century preceding it.Due to the restructuring of railways, which has resulted in separate Infrastructure Management and increasing performance demands from governments and Transport Cutting Board Operating Companies, infrastructure performance has become an imp

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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on commuting

We carried out an international online survey about changes in everyday mobility during the COVID-19 outbreak in 21 languages, collecting more than 11,000 responses from more than 100 countries.In this paper, we present our analysis about commuting travels of the responses between 23 March and 12 May 2020 from the fourteen countries with 100 or mor

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