Exploring the phenomenon of surface cracks and abnormal ground behavior during coal mining under gully landforms, laboratory physical similarity simulation models were established to study movement characteristics laws working faces different methods landforms. The results indicate that in cases when a roadway is situated below top slope, corresponding deformation surrounding rock aggravated by...

From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement, social media has been instrumental in driving and supporting socio-political movements throughout the world. In this paper, we present one of the first social media investigations of an activist movement around racial discrimination and police violence, known as "Black Lives Matter". Considering Twitter as a sensor for the broader community's percept...

OBJECTIVE To compare the kinematics of lower limb joints between individuals with and without chronic ankle instability (CAI) during cross-turn and -cutting movements. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Motion analysis laboratory. PARTICIPANTS Twelve subjects with CAI and twelve healthy controls. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Hip flexion, adduction, and internal rotation, knee flexion, and a...

Manure application increases pasture crop production and minimizes manure storage costs. Excess N not absorbed by pasture vegetation can leach past the root zone and into ground water. A yearlong study was conducted on grazing pastures at 2 dairy farms to monitor potential nitrate (NO3) movement from the surface through the soil profile toward ground water. Precipitation, irrigation, manure app...

An inertial sensor mounted on the foot of the affected body side represents an alternative to traditional foot switches in Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)assisted gait rehabilitation systems. The inertial sensor consisting of 3 gyroscopes and 3 accelerometers can be utilised to detect gait phases which can be applied to synchronise the electrical stimulation with the gait. Additionally,...

Normal subjects performed bilaterally symmetric rapid elbow flexions or extensions ("focal movements") while standing. Specific patterns of electromyographic activity in leg and trunk muscles ("associated postural adjustments") were seen for each type of movement. The biomechanical significance of these postural adjustments was analysed by means of the ground reaction forces and motion of the v...

With a predicted year on year increase in the number of flights [5], increasing attention will need to be paid to the environmental effects of air transportation, in addition to an increasing focus upon maintaining and improving on-time performance at airports [3]. These challenges will face both airlines and airports in the near future and improved taxi time predictions (which is the aim of th...

Plant cells cannot rearrange their positions; therefore, sharp tissue boundaries must be accurately programmed. Movement of the cell fate regulator SHORT-ROOT from the stele to the ground tissue has been associated with transferring positional information across tissue boundaries. The zinc finger BIRD protein JACKDAW has been shown to constrain SHORT-ROOT movement to a single layer, and other B...

This paper presents a system for modeling autumn leaves covering vegetation and monuments. We simulate the coloring and aging process by a stochastic model that represents the probability of evolution of a leaf according to the characteristics of the environment. We distribute leaves over the ground by approximating their complex movement by trajectory templates such as fluttering, rolling and ...