in this study, the formation of different parts of a cup during deep drawing process has been investigated analytically using the geometrical relationships. for a given punch travel, the effects of the bending angle, and those of the die and shoulder radii on the flange and die shoulder strains were examined. in addition, different components of the deformation force were calculated and the pun...

STUDY DESIGN A biomechanical study using human volunteers. OBJECTIVE Motorized shoulder belt tensioning is a new seatbelt technology that is likely to be incorporated into future vehicles. The objective of this study was to characterize the upper torso biomechanics of 3 sizes of adult volunteers (5th percentile female, 50th percentile male, and 95th percentile male) subjected to motorized sho...

OBJECTIVE Physical and sonographic evaluation of hemiplegic shoulder in patients after acute stroke and correlation between the physical/sonographic findings and early-onset hemiplegic shoulder pain. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS Fifty-seven patients after stroke with hemiplegic shoulder. METHODS Subjects were assigned to poor motor function and good motor function groups accordi...

This review article presents an in-depth examination of research and development in the fields rehabilitation, assistive technologies, humanoid robots. It focuses on parallel robots designed for human body joints with three degrees freedom, specifically neck, shoulder, wrist, hip, ankle. A systematic search was conducted across multiple databases, including Scopus, Web Science, PubMed, IEEE Xpl...

An important topic in face recognition as well as in video coding or multi-modal human machine interfaces is the automatic localization of faces or headand-shoulder regions in visual scenes. The algorithms therefore should be computationally eficient and robust against distortions like varying lighting conditions. This paper describes a novel method for segmenting frontal head and shoulder view...

A new planar antenna, suitable for use on a shoulder, has been studied for police and fire service portable radios in the 350-MHz band. This shoulder-mounted antenna, which is a type of planar inverted F antenna (PIFA), features extreme compactness while maintaining a higher gain than that of a conventional whip antenna and small impedance changes in the presence of a human body. The low-profil...

OBJECTIVE Few studies have concomitantly examined shoulder subluxation and other potential causes of shoulder pain in persons who have had a stroke. This study explores whether shoulder pain after stroke is related to shoulder subluxation, age, limitations in shoulder range of motion, and upper extremity motor impairment. METHOD Shoulder pain was measured with a visual analog scale in 20 subj...