Background & Aims: This study was performed to compare the effects of open and closed chain terminal knee extension exercises on onset latency of vastus medialis obliques (VMO) and vastus lateralis (VL), pain and function in subjects diagnosed with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS). Methods: In a pretest and posttest 5-week intervention study, 26 subjects diagnosed with PFPS and 13 healthy su...

The problem to be addressed in this thesis is expressed in the following question:can a specification be translated into a computer program, in such a way that it executesin a group of processors with all specified constraints satisfied?This work considers embedded hard real-time systems development methodologies,more specifically, the software generation phase. Regarding real-t...

We have designed and implemented a new programming language for hard real-time systems. Critical timing constraints are specified within the language, and ensured by the compiler. The main novel feature of the language is that programs are extensible in two dimensions without changing their timing behavior: new program modules can be added, and individual program task can be refined. The mechan...

In this study we evaluated human-robot collaboration models in an integrated human-robot operational system. An integrated work cell which includes a robotic arm working collaboratively with a human worker was specially designed for executing a real-time assembly task. Eighty industrial engineering students aged 22-27 participated in experiments in which timing and sensor based models were comp...

Side-channel attacks recover secret information by analyzing the physical implementation of cryptosystems based on non-functional computational characteristics, e.g. time, power, and memory usage. Among all wellknown side channels, cache-based timing channels are notoriously severe, leading to practical attacks against certain implementations of theoretically secure crypto algorithms, such as R...

This paper reports the results of two English experiments on timing and perception. The finding is that temporal patterns in production correspond to asymmetries in perception. We argue that these phenomena are best described in terms of auditory rather than articulatory representations. The production data concern compression effects, whereby, in syllables with a greater number of segments, ea...

We propose a new, media-independent protocol for including program timing, structure and identity information in Internet media streams. The protocol uses signaling messages called cues to indicate events whose timing is significant to receivers, such as the start or stop time of a media program. We describe the implementation and operation of a prototype Internet radio station which transmits ...