Humeral Cross-Sectional Shape in Suspensory Primates and Sloths

Taxonomic identification of Lower Pleistocene fossil hominins based on distal humeral diaphyseal cross-sectional shape

The coexistence of multiple hominin species during the Lower Pleistocene has long presented a challenge for taxonomic attribution of isolated postcrania. Although fossil humeri are well-suited for studies of hominin postcranial variation due to their relative abundance, humeral articular morphology has thus far been of limited value for differentiating Paranthropus from Homo. On the other hand,...

Effects of Cross Sectional Shape and Confining Material

Humeral retractor EMG during quadrupedal walking in primates.

The mammalian humeral retractors latissimus dorsi, teres major and caudal parts of the pectoral muscles are commonly thought to contribute to forward impulse during quadrupedal locomotion by pulling the body over the supporting forelimb. While most electromyographic studies on recruitment patterns for these muscles tend to support this functional interpretation, data on muscle use in chimpanzee...

Numerical Optimization of the Cross-sectional Shape of Turbine Blades

Industrial turbomachinery design requires fast and reliable algorithms for the numerical optimization of design parameters that innuence the ow in the turbomachine. The problem considered in this paper is to determine the cross-sectional shape of a blade in a turbomachine in order to reproduce as well as possible a given velocity proole of the ow around the blade. It is formulated as a least sq...

3d Cross-sectional Shape Measurement of the Foot While Walking

PRINCIPLE Most of the existing 3D shape measurement systems use laser scanning[2], and requires a time (several seconds, typically) for measurement. The principle of laser scanning measurement is triangulation between camera and laser projector. In the field of computer vision, 3D shape of the target object is reconstructed from multiple images using triangulation between multiple cameras (ster...