... kind donation of knee braces. This research was supported by an MSFHR Postdoctoral Trainee award to QL, an NSERC USRA to VN, and an MSFHR Scholar Award, a CIHR New Investigator Award, and CIHR ... constant is specific to each generator anddepends on generator topology and materials. All elsebeing equal, a generator will have a larger Kg if it has a greater number of turns or parallel paths ... physiology of walking and a novel design to best take advantage of theunderlying physiological principles. As muscle is ulti-mately the origin of all energy available for biomechanical energy harvesting,...
... thatenables energy harvesting emulation. 10 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking3B453B41 3A1 3A3 1 3A4 3A7 3A1 1 3A1 4 3A1 8 3A2 2 3A2 6 3A2 8 3A1 0 3A2 0 3A2 1 3A1 9 3A1 5 3A8 3A2 3A1 6 3A9 ... implement an API, so any existing application can beevaluated. We have evaluated a retail application but it ispossible and desirable to evaluate other application domainslike agricultural machinery, ... in terms of the amount of charge (Q)stored at a given voltage drop (across the capacitor)) of a capacitor is given by (1). (Note that: the SI unit of capacitanceis the farad; 1 farad= 1 coulomb...
... mechanochemicalnature of a- CT catalysis A more detailed analysis of the influence of chemicalglycosylation on the dynamics of a- CT from the theor-etical simulations was additionally performed to gain a deeper ... modeled.Table S4. Average rmsd (A ˚) for the conserved catalyticresidues calculated from MD simulations of a- CT andthe various Lac -a- CT conjugates modeled.This material is available as part of ... quantitative analysis of the HX decay datawas done by a two-exponential model:X ẳ A 1expkHX;1ịtỵ A 2expkHX;2ịtỵ A 3where A 1, A 2, and A 3are the fractions of the fast, slow andstable...
... structures ofa bacterial 6-phosphogluconatedehydrogenase reveal aspects of specificity, mechanismand mode of inhibition by analogues of high -energy reaction intermediatesRamasubramanian Sundaramoorthy1, ... suite: programs for protein crystallo-graphy.Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 50, 760–763.28 Navaza J (1994) Amore – an automated package formolecular replacement. Acta Crystallogr A 50, 157–163.29 ... be an associated water molecule. Ourinterpretation was that the smaller compound PEA(Fig. 1B) and a water molecule are present and PEXand PEA refined satisfactorily with occupancies of 0.7Table...
... larger capacity andlabor saving requirement ofa paper making machine follows a continuous beating machine, that is a rifiner. The types ofa refiner are a conical type, a drum type and a disc ... when a great amount of this high-temperature exhaustgas is cooled by the heat exchanger. At the same time, the heat contained in the gas can berecovered as hot water. Scales and pulps are attached ... is decreased by increasing the differential pressure of theexhaust gas.Pulps are attached to the jet condenser which absorbs a great amount of gasand the thermal accumulator. Pulps also enter...
... paths” E A AA AA−WAES Study C B C C C BCIA assessment of int’l energy C B B B B A CONAES B C C C D DStobaugh and Yergin D AAAA A RFF-Mellon Study A B− DD DEFord-RFF Study AA D D D C a Participants ... groupopposed primary reliance on nuclear power and favored greater emphasis on re-newables such as solar and biomass.Each participant was asked to rate each study from the perspective of analyticalstrength, ... supply/demand imbalances that could be managedby gradual market adaptation and short-term overnight shortages that would causelong lines at gas pumps. It was a major disappointment to WAES members,...
... (5Â-CCTGTCAGATCTCCGCCATGGCTAACAATGCATCTCT-3Â), and a BamHI site(bold) was introduced into the reverse primer (5Â-TCTCCCGGATCCAAAGAGAAATACCCATA-TA-3Â) to facili-tate vector–insert ligation. Amplification ... showedthat FRET was enhanced by the addition ofa GnRHagonist but not by an antagonist (Fig. 7), suggesting thatthe GnRH agonist facilitates receptor association. Althoughthe molecular basis of ... proteins [26–32]. Many of the post-transla-tional modification pathways, such as phosphorylation,glycosylation, myristoylation and palmitoylation present inmammalian systems are also utilized in...
... was identifi ed as a physics topical area for assessment in the INTOR Workshop.The startup, operation, and shutdown ofa large EPR plasma with an internal fusion heating source was an area ... an experi-mental reactor based on a very cautious extrapolation of these parameters.The USA and USSR orientations were intermediate, and similar. The experimental reactor performance parameters ... programs in Europe and was initially opposed.Fortunately for the future of ITER, the chairman of the IFRC was Rathbone Sebastian (Bas) Pease, an accomplished scientist and a talented galvanizer...
... give an idea of the wide range of projects and the different aspects of sustainability which are addressed. Additionally a first product for the planned quality assurance of the results via a ... be evaluated according to the climate protection effects achieved. For example, these evaluations are undertaken on the basis of the biomass potential, the energy and material balance of conversion ... technical and economic aspects. Work tasks are, among others, the determination of the potential by means of humus balancing, the analysis of climate impacts and the techno-economic analysis of the...
... length. A was found to varyin a parabolic manner and was modeled as A( θ) = a( 40 - θ)2 + b(40 - θ) + A 40,(11)where A 40 is the value ofA at 40° of knee flexion, and a and b are constants ... University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA and 2Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, ... the val-ues ofA at the above four angles to the parabolic equationgiven by a( 40 - θ)2 + b(40 - θ) + A 40. Fitting of measuredand modeled data was carried out using a derivate basedoptimization...
... employs a simulated piano that presents visual, auditory and tactile feedback comparable to an actual piano.Arm tracking allows patients to train both the arm and hand as a coordinated unit, emphasizing ... theintegration of both transport and manipulation phases. The piano trainer includes songs and scalesthat can be performed with one or both hands. Adaptable haptic assistance is available for ... a full keyboard with a complete range of single notes. A list of .wav files, eachhaving the sound ofa single note of the piano, are pre-loaded into a sound file array. The keyboard array of...
... elevation into abduction and flexionand recalculated the values for elbow angle into an ana-tomical angle rather the technical/mathematical anglevalues. One limitation of this study, for example, ... left the measurement area and markerswere removed. After a 5–10 minutes break the markerswere replaced and subject was tested a second time.Data analysis and raw data handlingAfter the recording ... http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/3/1/18Page 10 of 11(page number not for citation purposes)and analyze a goal-oriented daily task has a great clinicalpotential. However a certain degree of standardization isindispensable in...
... broker transported cli-ents by car to view residential property.Data AnalysisData were processed and analyzed after testing each sub-ject. The same time interval of BML and IDEEA data wasanalyzed ... in analyzing the data and revis-ing the manuscript. All authors read and approved thefinal manuscript.AcknowledgementsThe authors thank Patrick Duplessis for his assistance with data analysis. ... for citation purposes)Journal of NeuroEngineering and RehabilitationOpen AccessResearchAmbulatory measurement of knee motion and physical activity: preliminary evaluation ofa smart activity...
... disparate sampling rateand sample data size. For example, the pressure andtemperature sampled data may be smaller in size andlower in sampling rate than the real time image data.Finally, ... the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Cur-rently, the commercial WCE is mainly composed of a camera, a transceiver, and two button batteries [1]. Thecamera captures image s of the GI tr act and sends ... RESEARCH Open AccessEvaluation ofa TDMA-based energy efficient MACprotocol for multiple capsule networksLin Lin1,2, Kai-Juan Wong2*, Arun Kumar2, Zongqing Lu2, Su-Lim Tan2and Soo Jay...
... 4(b). All other appearances canbe obtained by rotation and mirroring of the appear ances inthis tetrahedron. Appearances 1–4 are the most symmetricappearances obtainable. Other appearances ... motion tracking using a marker tracking algorithmwhich itself is validated against simulated MR image data.Simulated data was generated for the noise-free case as well EURASIP Journal on Advances ... 2006.[19]J.C.Walker,M.B.Ratcliffe, P. Zhang, et al., “Magneticresonance imaging-based finite element stress analysis afterlinear repair of left ventricular aneurysm,” Journal of Thoracicand Cardiovascular...