This study examines the motivation for tasting halal food amongst non-Muslim tourists during their recent trips away from home. It also integrates the positive psychology concept of savouring by examining the positive emotions savoured by non-Muslim tourists on the basis of the broaden-and-build theory, including the savouring processes used when recalling their recent halal food experiences after returning from holiday. Data were collected from 220 non-Muslim tourists using a self-administered open-ended web-based questionnaire in Amazon MTurk. More than half of the non-Muslim respondents considered themselves to be food neophiliacs, and the two main motivations for consuming halal food were to experience something new and taste. The most common positive emotions savoured by non-Muslim tourists when recalling their recent halal food experiences were joy and love. Taste, togetherness and novelty were identified as the dominant factors that intensified respondents’ savouring of their halal food experiences and can be linked to three out of four savouring processes – luxuriating, thanksgiving and marvelling.
ObjectiveTo develop a set of strategies to enhance adherence to home-based exercises after stroke, and an overarching framework to classify these strategies.MethodWe conducted a four-round Delphi consensus (two online surveys, followed by a focus group then a consensus round). The Delphi panel consisted of 13 experts from physiotherapy, occupational therapy, clinical psychology, behaviour science and community medicine. The experts were from India, Australia and UK.ResultsIn round 1, a 10-item survey using open-ended questions was emailed to panel members and 75 strategies were generated. Of these, 25 strategies were included in round 2 for further consideration. A total of 64 strategies were finally included in the subsequent rounds. In round 3, the strategies were categorised into nine domains—(1) patient education on stroke and recovery, (2) method of exercise prescription, (3) feedback and supervision, (4) cognitive remediation, (5) involvement of family members, (6) involvement of society, (7) promoting self-efficacy, (8) motivational strategies and (9) reminder strategies. The consensus from 12 experts (93%) led to the development of the framework in round 4.ConclusionWe developed a framework of comprehensive strategies to assist clinicians in supporting exercise adherence among stroke survivors. It provides practical methods that can be deployed in both research and clinical practices. Future studies should explore stakeholders’ experiences and the cost-effectiveness of implementing these strategies.
We identified that standing puts an additional energy demand in ambulant children with BSCP. Findings suggest that both dependant and independent ambulating children with BSCP might need to exert more effort to maintain a static standing position. Therefore, clinicians must evaluate standing position for balance control and energy expenditure to evaluate the efficiency of physical therapy and rehabilitation.
This experimental study establishes the first audiovisual speech recognition baseline for the TIMIT sentence portion of the AVICAR dataset, a dataset recorded in a real, noisy car environment. We use an automatic speech recognizer trained on a larger dataset to generate an audio-only recognition baseline for AVICAR. We utilize the forced alignment of the audio modality of AVICAR to get training targets for the convolutional neural network based visual front end. Based on our observation that there is a great amount of variation between visual features of different speakers, we apply feature space maximum likelihood linear regression (fMMLR) based speaker adaptation to the visual features. We find that the quality of fMLLR is sensitive to the quality of the alignment probabilities used to compute it; experimental tests compare the quality of fMLLR trained using audiovisual versus audio-only alignment probabilities. We report the first audiovisual results for TIMIT subset of AVICAR and show that the word error rate of the proposed audiovisual system is significantly better than that of the audio-only system.
Stroke neuro rehabilitation rely on human and animal studies about learning and adaptation. The physiological principles underlying them are based on experience dependent neuronal plasticity. The paper will revisit different motor learning strategies which can be administered in stroke (acute & chronic). This summary also encompasses various neurorestorative interventions like CIMT, mirror therapy, VR, haptics, brain stimulation, task-oriented training, massed and repetitive practice experimented for stroke with most robust reviews and recent trials. We also expand this review with our experience on both acute and chronic stroke recovery patterns amalgamated with functional imaging.
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