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    Nick Johnson Mrs. Susan Stackhouse English 8 3 December 2014 Sandra Slutz, a staff scientist at Ohio University, found out that if a person is crossed hand eye dominant then they will shoot better because their dominant eye is not blocked by the basketball she also writes, “coaches need to coach from the eyes down”, since the eyes play a very important part in basketball shooting. Although, crossed hand eye dominance provides the best basketball shooting percentages, dominance-altering activities will improve same-side dominance by seven percent. There are two-types of motor skill gross motor skills and fine motor skills both of them work together to provide coordination and they are typically developed and mastered between the ages of six and twelve. A fine motor skill is the coordination of small muscle movements and it usually involves synchronization of hands and fingers. Fine motor skills involve helping you write, grasp things, and fasten clothing. Gross motor skill is the movement and coordination of the arms and legs it helps you stand up, walk, and run. Gross motor skill involves the arms and legs and fine motor skill involves the hands and fingers.(4) Cross hand eye dominance is a fine motor skill where a person favors one hand for some tasks and the other hand for others.(3) Crossed hand eye dominance or ocular dominance was first noticed and studied in the 1940’s. (10)It was discovered by people shooting bows but could not see because they were right eye dominant…

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    Child Laterality Essay

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    psychomotor that allows them to perform better some learning tasks, how to coordinate the movement of the hand with the gaze to write, among others. It also facilitates the understanding of spatial concepts. By doing so, it is important to good development lateralization for learning children. The development of laterality homogeneous and well defined: that our eye, ear, hand and foot that we use preferably are of the same side of the body, ensures that the brain build neuronal circuits as…

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    Icd Research Paper

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    used is ‘U’. These alpha characters are not case sensitive, so they can be used in the upper or lower case without affecting the code’s meaning. The second digit is always a number. The first three characters are the main code or category. The fourth character comes after a decimal point and it defines the site, etiology or cause, and manifestation. The fifth and sixth characters offer further specificity if needed, such as laterality and location. The seventh character is required if it is…

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    Therefore when looking at laterality in humans when looking at emotionally arousing stimuli and long-term memory, a relationship can be established but not a relationship to emotional reactions per second. The machinery can also be expensive and very noisy so may cause stress to participants. Although the benefits of using fMRI include them being non invasive as they require no foreign substance to be introduced into the bloodstream, and also they have good spatial resolution, so where brain…

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    spoke to and the details of the discussion that took place. As part of multifactorial triggers on radiology error, fatigue plays an important role due to the increased workload of the radiologist, followed by frequent interruptions, varying views from colleagues and finally visual strain from reading the clinical images (Sokolovskaya et al., 2015, p. 688). By the same token, Minn, Zandieh, & Filipe (2015, p. 496) conducted a study concerning the effectivity of a speech dictation recognition…

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    Medical terminology is for ALL of healthcare, not just doctors and nurses but billers, coders, medical assistants, front and back office staff. Basically, anyone you see working in a doctors office, clinic, hospital or nursing home have medical terminology as their "language". In coding, to quote Professor Ray, " Medical Terminology is PRICELESS in coding". The understanding of medical terminology helps in coding and billing to know the highest certainty and specificity of the disease/injury…

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    ICD-9-CM. although the NCHS is involved in the development of the ICD-10-CM the copyright belongs to the World Health Organization (WHO), who owns and publishes the calcification. In order for the WHO to authorize the development of an adoption of the ICD-10, all the modifications must be in accordance with their conventions. Additionally, an evaluation by a Technical Advisory Panel and extensive additional consultation with physician groups, clinical coders, and others to assure clinical…

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    Femur Research Paper

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    The lack of precise anatomical definitions of the femoral angles often poses a problem in the literatures. Limited data are available regarding the normal bilateral difference of the angles in a normal population. Anatomical and anthropological studies on the dimensions of the head of the femur have failed to establish a universal norm for all human races. The purpose of procuring this normal data is to provide a basis for the evaluation of patients with known or assumed pathological…

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    Scissor Cutting Exercise

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    Scissor cutting involves open and close hand action using a pointer, index and thumb of one hand, whilst using the other to holding cutting material (Kearns, 2011). Scissor cutting help develops fine motor and hand and eye coordination and development of strength and joint stability in wrist, elbow and shoulder (Kearns, 2011). To manage to do up buttons the action requires the development of the pincher grasp, the control of thumb and pointer coming together (Kearns, 2010). Being able to let…

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    These studies showed researchers that there were differences between the normal readers and dyslexics. Marked differences in the symmetry, laterality, gray matter volume, and stability of white matter were seen in the two groups (Stoodley and Stein, 2012). The cerebellum is a major part of our thought process. As such, of all our neurons in the brain half are found in the cerebellum and a key part of the central nervous system. Continual repeating of the circuitry of the cerebellar cortex,…

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