BACKGROUND Accurately measuring of intrinsic foot kinematics using skin mounted markers is difficult, limited in part by the physical dimensions of the foot. Existing kinematic foot models solve this problem by combining multiple bones into idealized rigid segments. This study presents a novel foot model that allows the motion of the 26 bones to be individually estimated via a combination of pa...

Purpose This study aimed at finding out the effect of exit height, trajectory and number pins on stability cross divergent-lateral used in fixation extension-type, transverse supracondylar humerus fracture (SHF) children, based finite element analysis. Methods Distal model consisting ossific nucleus capitellum (ONC) distal cartilage a 6-year-old boy was developed via three-dimensional modeling....

We used ferromagnetic artificial pinning centers in superconducting NbTi wires to achieve a large critical current density (Jc) in a magnetic field. Four wires were fabricated that contained nanometer-sized arrays of Ni or Fe pins inside micron-sized filaments of Nb0.36Ti0.64 alloy. A ferromagnetic pin volume of only 2% Ni produced Jc’s ~e.g., 2500 A/mm 2 at 5 T, 4.2 K! that were comparable to ...

This paper explores the impulsion and vibration properties of different tactile patterns. These properties describe the unique states of the pins for example raised or lowered. The tactile feedback is provided by Braille pins on a finger and is in the form of different patterns chosen for the experiments. We tested these features on the Braille display of dimension 4x2 (8 pins). The experiments...

This paper reports the design and fabrication of a micromachined silicon pin that serves as a novel contact-printing tool. More specific application is in the DNA and protein microarray field for small and precise droplet printing onto a solid support. Our goal is to develop low cost, high performance silicon pins as simple replacement of the stainless-steel pins used in typical microarray robo...

A popular design style involves tiling a two-dimensional area withcompacted basic cells such that all needed inter cell connections are between pairs of adjacent cells [l,lO]. Furthermore, adjacent cells have the same number of pins on their common boundary and the ith pins of the two cells are to be connected for all i. In the example of Fig. 1 the adjacent cells A and B each have four pins on...