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The patient with a transfemoral amputation and prosthesis with a friction knee is walking with a circumducted gait because he doesn’t trust the prosthetic knee; provide 3 intervention ideas for a treatment session

A person with a lower extremity amputation who has continual difficulty with fluctuating body weight would have the most difficult time with what type of suspension?

Patient is a 70 year old female who underwent a left transtibial amputation 2 days ago due to an infection over her medial malleolus that would not heal. She has diabetes type 2, hypertension, and high cholesterol. She is obese. She is retired and lives independently with her husband in a 2 story home. Prior to her amputation she was independent in all ADL’s and IADL’s. Which of the following exercises should the physical therapist select for intervention during the patient’s post-surgical rehab?

Which of the following exercises should the physical therapist select to BEST address the gait deviation for the patient in question 29 (question directly preceding this one)?

Patient is an otherwise healthy 20-year old male who suffered a right traumatic transfemoral amputation with no comorbidities. Surgery was 2 days ago and there are no signs of infection. Prior to the amputation, patient was a college student majoring in accounting. He lives with 3 roommates in a 2 bedroom apartment and played a variety of intramural athletics. Which of the following types of socket suspension would you expect this patient is going to be fit with in his long term prosthesis?

Given logistic regression as our mapper for binary classification, what is the cost function (select all that apply)?:

Modern communication methods make people’s lives easier. Discuss.                                                          OR It is more important to have a good salary than to enjoy your work. Discuss.                                                 OR   Honesty is the most important quality for success in business. Discuss.

Which multiclass extension approach to support vector machines can be more computationally expensive in terms of the number of classifiers generated?

For an MLP with one hidden layer, dropout is used to create a m-dimensional multivariate _____ vector (also called a masking vector) to drop a fraction of the hidden neurons with probability r of keeping a neuron.

For the following support vector regressor which points are included as support vectors?