BACKGROUND A study was conducted to determine the reliability and validity of a new foot mobility assessment method that utilizes digital images to measure the change in dorsal arch height measured at 50% of the length of the foot during the Sit-to-Stand test. METHODS Two hundred - seventy five healthy participants participated in the study. The medial aspect of each foot was photographed wit...

BACKGROUND Attrition is a problem among patients who participate in commercial weight loss programs. One possible explanation is that if patients are unable to reach a weight that they expect to achieve, they may be more likely to drop out of treatment. This study investigated variables associated with attrition among 30 obese patients who completed a liquid meal replacement program (LMR) and e...

A three-dimensional (3D) finite element model (FEM) that simulates the Impactor weight-drop experimental model of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) was developed. The model consists of the rat spinal cord, with distinct element sets for the gray and white matter, the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the dura mater, a rigid rat spinal column, and a rigid impactor. Loading conditions were taken from t...

this study was designed to develop a modified tbi weight drop model for induction of focal mild cerebral injury. a stereotaxic coupled weight drop device was designed. principle arm of device carries up to 500g weights which their force was conveyed to animal skull through a thin nail like metal tip. to determine the optimal configuration of the device to induce mild tbi, six different trials w...

This paper aims to contribute to the study of algebras with triangular decomposition over a Hopf algebra, as well as the BGG Category O. We study functorial properties of O across various setups. The first setup is over a skew group ring, involving a finite group Γ acting on a regular triangular algebra A. We develop Clifford theory for A⋊Γ, and obtain results on block decomposition, complete r...

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Advanced ceramic materials are gradually becoming very important for their superior properties such as high hardness, wear resistance, chemical resistance, and high strength to weight ratio. But machining of advanced ceramic like Al2O3-ceramics is very difficult by any well known and common machining processes. Normally, cleavages and triangular fractures generate when machining of these materi...

This graph shows two important results. First, as a group, patients lose a great deal of weight over time, and tend to keep much of it off. For these patients, average excess weight loss at 2 years is 80%, at 4 years is 64%, and 5 years 65%. We do not have enough data to calculate a meaningful average beyond 5 years. Second, there is a great deal of variation among patients. Some drop to a norm...

This paper presents the idea of creating cells while reducing part-level sequence-dependent setup time in general cellular manufacturing systems (CMS). Setup time reduction in CMS has gained modest attention in the literature. This could be attributed to the fact that the fundamental problem in cell formation in CMS has been mainly related to material handling and machine utilization while setu...