Background. Performing skilful movement patterns during sport practice sessions and real competition can cause negative adaptations in the musculoskeletal system. Objectives. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of postural abnormalities of the spine and shoulder girdle among professionals practising Sanda in Mazandaran province. Methods. Forty professional Sanda athletes pa...

We study the design of monetary policy in a continuous time framework with delays. More explicitly, we consider a linear, flexible price model where inflation and nominal interest rates chage continously, but where nominal rates are set by the Central bank in response to a lagged inflation measure, and where the measure of inflation can be constructed as a flexible distributed delay. Therefore ...

This paper introduces a general and flexible framework for F0 and aperiodicity (additive non periodic component) analysis, specifically intended for high-quality speech synthesis and modification applications. The proposed framework consists of three subsystems: instantaneous frequency estimator and initial aperiodicity detector, F0 trajectory tracker, and F0 refinement and aperiodicity extract...

This paper introduces the design and fabrication process of a flexible pressure sensor for post-EVAR surveillance. Biocompatible flexible PDMS membranes with embedded CNTs with a conductivity of 11.43 S.m and elastic modulus of 2.42MPa are used to build a LC network for passive telemetry readout-out. The pressure sensor has a modelled sensitivity around 14fF/mmHg for a pressure range between 6-...

Flexible parts comparing with rigid parts can be deformed by contact force during assembly. For successfil assembly, information about their deformation as well as possible wisalignment between matingparts is essential. However, because of the nonlinear and complex relationship between parts deformation and reaction forces, it is dificult to acquire all required information from the reaction fo...

We propose a method to search for illustrative sentences for English multiword expressions (MWEs) from a research paper database. We focus on syntactically flexible expressions such as “regard – as.” Traditionally, illustrative sentences that contain such expressions have been searched for by limiting the maximum number of words between the component words of the MWE. However, this method could...

We demonstrate a process to fabricate silicon photonic devices directly on a plastic film which is both flexible and transparent. This process allows the integration of complex structures on plastic films without the need of transferring from another substrate. Waveguides, grating couplers, and microring resonators are fabricated and optically characterized. An optical strain sensor is shown as...

The use of transactions in flexible manufacturing systems is expected to result in a number of advantages like increased software reliability and minimized restart times in the case of system or machine failures. Here, an architecture of a system for handling processes on machine tools under transactional protection is briefly presented. Special attention must be drawn to the component which de...

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between flexible categorization and cognitive inhibition in preschool children. Subjects (N=14) were aged between 3 and 4 1⁄2 years. They were tested with two tasks: a Stroop-like day-night task for inhibition (Gerstadt, Hong & Diamond, 1994) and an object-sorting task for flexible categorization. As 6 children did not perform the inhibiti...

At the University of Karlsruhe, a flexible micromanipulation station based on high-precise piezo-driven microrobots has been developed. Providing a flexible tool in several application fields in the micro world the robots operate either on the stage of an automated light optical microscope or inside the vacuum chamber of a scanning electron microscope (SEM). In order to automate manipulating ta...