Locomotive drivers in the steam engine era were exposed to asbestos during their vocational training for two years while training in workshops. Later in their career they had exposure to coal and diesel combustion products. To assess the level of earlier exposure historical working conditions were reconstructed and hygienic conditions were measured. The average exposure to asbestos (mainly anth...

This project aims to evaluate the deep neural network architecture DeepConvLSTM to classify locomotive human activities using data from a single accelerometer. The evaluation involves comparisons to a simpler convolutional neural network and a hyperparameter evaluation in regards to the networks number of convolutional layers. The benchmark OPPORTUNITY dataset is used for training and evaluatio...

Background. The purpose of this article is to present the problems encountered in treatment and rehabilitation, including prosthesis fitting, in the case of a 17-year-old female patient who underwent a bilateral leg amputation using Syme's method. Case history. The patient incurred crushing injuries of both feet and the knee joints, resulting from a severe multi-organ injury. As a result of pos...

We examined the effects of ceiling height and perceived enclosureddefined as perceived visual and locomotive permeabilitydon aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions in architectural design. Furthermore, to gain traction on the mechanisms driving the observed effects, we employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore their neural correlates. Rooms with higher ceili...

A project of an expedition towards planet Venus, which is carried out in two stages, is considered. At the first stage, a space train, consisting of a locomotive and a tank with working substance, delivers onto Venus orbit the landing capsule with the Venus plane and the Venus rover, as well as the tank-container with liquid hydrogen, which is used subsequently for return of the expedition onto...

Accumulating data have indicated that citrus polymethoxyflavones (PMFs) have the ability to affect brain function. In the present study, we showed that 3,5,6,7,8,3',4'-heptamethoxy- flavone (HMF) given intraperitoneally to mice was immediately detected in the brain and that the permeability of the brain tissues to it was significantly higher than that of other citrus PMFs (nobiletin, tangeretin...

[Purpose] Locomotive syndrome (LS) is a condition by which older people may require care service because of problems with locomotive organs. This study examined whether the loco-check, a 7-item questionnaire, is useful for quantitatively assessing the severity of LS. [Subjects and Methods] Seventy-one community dwelling Japanese females aged 64-96 years (81.7 ± 8.0 years) participated in this s...

People recalibrate, or adjust, their actions as environmental conditions change. For example, people can easily recalibrate to walking outside on a windy day. Locomotive recalibration, such as walking or turning, has already been investigated in several real world experiments. However, there has been little research of locomotive recalibration in immersive virtual environments (IVEs). This work...