Background & Aims: The purpose of this study was to determine the immediate effect of patella support brace on co-contraction and electromyographic activity of selected lower limb muscles in females with patellofemoral pain syndrome during stance phase of gait. Methods: EMG activity of vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, rectus femoris, gastrocnemius, biceps femoris, semitendinosus, gluteus medi...

Existing literature suggests that substituting mineral aggregates with tire-derived aggregate (TDA) in concrete increases the ductility and toughness of at cost lowering its strength stiffness. Hence, TDA has applications dynamic systems, such as lateral resisting frames sustaining seismic loads. This study investigated application buckling-restrained braced (BRBFs). Buckling-restrained brace (...

OBJECTIVE The soft cervical collar has been prescribed for whiplash injury but has been shown to be clinically ineffective. As some authors report superior results for managing whiplash injury with a cervical brace, we were interested in comparing the mechanical effectiveness of the soft collar with a rigid cervical brace. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to measure ranges of motion in ...

OBJECTIVE To provide the off-loading knee brace was designed relief for the pain associated with osteoarthritis by reduce loads on the degenerative compartment of the knee. This study examined the effects of the off-loading knee brace on activation of femoral muscles during squatting, slow and fast walking exercise in healthy young individuals. METHOD Ten healthy male subjects without a histo...

This study presents the status and results from an effort to design, fabricate, and test an adaptive jet engine chevron concept based upon embedding shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators in a composite laminate, termed a SMA hybrid composite (SMAHC). The approach for fabricating the adaptive SMAHC chevrons involves embedding prestrained Nitinol actuators on one side of the mid-plane of the composi...

Chevron mixing devices are used to reduce noise from commercial separate-flow turbofan engines. Mechanical chevron serrations at the nozzle trailing edge generate axial vorticity that enhances jet plume mixing and consequently reduces far-field noise. “Fluidic chevrons” generated with air injected near the nozzle trailing edge create a vorticity field similar to that of the mechanical chevrons ...

Finite element analysis was used to investigate the effects of the misalignment of the brace flange-to-beam connection point with the link-end stiffener (referred to as the offset in the paper) on the ductility of eccentrically braced frames (EBF). The offset was speculated to be a possible reason for the unexpected EBF failures observed in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake series of...

OBJECTIVE The main objective is to determine the influence of treatment by Chêneau brace on the quality of life (QoL) of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. MATERIAL AND METHOD We used the QoL scale of Climent et al. "the Quality of Life Profile for Spine Deformities" (QLPSD, in which a higher score means a worse QoL) and visual analogue scales (VAS) for pain and for QoL ranging from 0 to ...

To characterize the microRNAs that contribute to the development of brace root, Solexa high-throughput sequencing of three libraries derived from tissues of node (N), nodes with just-emerged brace roots (NR), and nodes with just-emerged brace roots after IAA treatment (NRI) was performed. Total 650,793, 957,303 and 1,082,948 genome-matched unique reads were obtained in N, NR and NRI libraries, ...