Whereas the tall forb life-form group showed high performance in temperature reduction, water capture, evapotranspiration and albedo functions (Table 2), the grasses had high biomass production, and the succulents had high temporal constancy of biomass.
Both groups showed high rate of susceptibility to SXT.
Although the NI group showed higher performance in all tasks in all time windows compared with I subjects, both groups improved their performance after stimulation.
There was no difference between groups in accuracy on the gender discrimination task with both groups showing high levels of performance (mean ± standard deviation: Controls 98±3%3% and ASC 97 ± 4%).
We were also impressed by the study of Urlings-Strop and colleagues cited above [ 2], who used extracurricular activities at admission to select a group of students who subsequently showed high performance in clinical clerkships, around 4 5 years later.
Previous work from our group has shown high performance two-dimensional paper-based assays, but the work presented here is particularly significant because all of the necessary reagents were patterned, dried, and stored on a single porous membrane and rehydrated with the addition of sample and buffer upon the initiation of the assay.
In addition to mobility enhancement, the intervention group showed higher functional performance on discharge (Functional Independence Measure™, 88 versus 79; p < 0.001).
In the three experiments the intervention group showed higher increases performances in phonological skills and phonological recoding than the control group did.
However, both groups showed significantly higher levels of performance in the automated maze than in the standard T-maze (maze: F 1,14) = 62.18, p < 0.0001).
