Introduction: Sensory-motor control and in general gaining balance will be impaired after an ankle injury and in fatigue situations. The aim of this research was to study the effect of exercise-based fatigue on static and dynamic balance in mountaineering athletes who were successful in returning to a suitable level of physical activity after an ankle sprain injury. Materials and methods: ...

This study investigated the independent effect of added mass on the stability of the leg kinematics during human walking. We reasoned that adding mass would influence the body's inertial state and thus challenge the ability of the leg to redirect and accelerate the total mass of the body while walking. We hypothesized that walking with added mass would reduce the stability of the leg kinematics...

The structure of the flexible IGZO TFTs was deposited on PET substrates using a magnetron radio frequency co-sputtering system at a low temperature. The resulting flexible IGZO TFTs exhibited the lower subthreshold swing value of 0.25 V/decade and the higher field-effect mobility of 24.4 cm/V-s. The field-effect mobility stability was measured by a bending radius of 1.17 cm under stress time fo...

AIM Diabetes Mellitus progressively leads to impairments in stability and joint motion and might affect coordination patterns, mainly due to neuropathy. This study aims to describe changes in intralimb joint coordination in healthy individuals and patients with absent, mild and, severe stages of neuropathy. METHODS Forty-seven diabetic patients were classified into three groups of neuropathic...

This paper investigates the design of composite nonlinear feedback (CNF) control law for an underactuated gantry crane system to achieve positioning and anti-swing control. First, the dynamic model of a nonlinear underactuated gantry crane system is established by using the Euler-Lagrange modeling method. Then, the CNF control law is designed for the system to improve the anti-swing performance...

Low-doped silicon multi-nanowire field effect transistors with high ON/OFF ratio over 10 and a low subthreshold swing of 60–120 mV dec 1 are fabricated using lithographic semiconductor processes. The use of multi-nanowires instead of a single nanowire as sensing elements has shown improved device uniformity and stability in buffer solutions. The device stability is further improved with surface...

introduction: the aim of this study was to determine which technique of uncinectomy, classical or swing door technique.  materials and methods: four hundred eighty cases of sinusitis were selected and operated for functional endoscopic sinus surgery (fess). out of these, in 240 uncinectomies classical uncinectomy was done whereas in another 240 uncinectomies swing door technique was used. initi...

The sensitivity of the pendulum test to variation in spasticity in persons with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) was tested in 30 participants with CP and 10 participants without CP (controls) (mean age 13.8 years). The participants with CP were classified into three groups, with normal (mean age 15.9 years), mild/moderate (13.0 years), or severe (23.0 years) muscle tone, as assessed clinically usin...

The challenge in the swing-up problem of double inverted pendulum on a cart (DIPC) is to design a controller that bring all DIPC's states, especially the joint angles of the two links, into the region of attraction of the desired equilibrium. This paper proposes a new method to swing-up DIPC based on a series of restto-rest maneuvers of the first link about its vertically upright configuration ...

Low-doped silicon multi-nanowire field effect transistors with high ON/OFF ratio over 10(7) and a low subthreshold swing of 60-120 mV dec(-1) are fabricated using lithographic semiconductor processes. The use of multi-nanowires instead of a single nanowire as sensing elements has shown improved device uniformity and stability in buffer solutions. The device stability is further improved with su...