ENERGETICS OF STAIR WAY AND RAMP WAY WALKING

On Parmenides' Poem: "The Way of Truth" and "The Way of Opinion"

Walking and talking our way to healthier living.

It’s not easy getting up 30 minutes earlier to exercise first thing in the morning, but if I don’t do it then, I usually won’t get to it. Like most new habits, it took me awhile to get into the routine of walking, but now I do it almost daily and feel good about it for the rest of the day. More and more research is pointing to the longterm benefits of physical activity on wellbeing. Walking is ...

Wiener Way to Dimensionality

This note introduces a new general conjecture correlating the dimensionality dT of an infinite lattice with N nodes to the asymptotic value of its Wiener Index W(N). In the limit of large N the general asymptotic behavior W(N)≈Ns is proposed, where the exponent s and dT are related by the conjectured formula s=2+1/dT allowing a new definition of dimensionality dW=(s-2)-1. Being related to the t...

Walk This Way: A Lightweight, Data-Driven Walking Synthesis Algorithm

We present a novel, biomechanically-inspired, kinematic-based, example-driven walking synthesis model. Our model is ideally suited towards interactive applications such as games. It synthesizes motion interactively without a priori knowledge of the trajectory. The model is very efficient, producing foot-skate free, smooth motion over a large, continuous range of speeds and while turning, in as ...

Walking in a city neighbourhood, paving the way.

BACKGROUND There is an increasing interest in the use of walking routes to promote physical activity. We explored the stated attitudes of selected residents from two adjacent low-income city neighbourhoods towards walking. This was in response to negative results obtained in a quantitative study assessing the impact of the Slí-na-Sláinte (path to health), a signed heart health walking route. ...