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There is disagreement in the literature on whether French has stress and on whether it has a foot projection. The disagreement stems from the observation that French is unusual in that the phrase rather than the word is the domain of stress assignment, there is optional initial stress in addition to obligatory final stress, and there are rampant violations of word minimality. In view of these o...

The Ostrich is a native bird of Africa, and is highly accomplished in terrestrial locomotion in desert and grassland environments. The foot is an important segment in the ostrich body, critical for damping vibration, absorbing energy, and maintaining balance; however, detailed information on the ostrich foot is sparse. In this study, the gross anatomy of locomotor system of the ostrich foot was...

We present a case of delayed diagnosis of a benign giant cell tumour (GCT) of the third metatarsal in a skeletally immature girl. The patient underwent en bloc excision of the tumour. The tumour had replaced the third metatarsal and had infiltrated the surrounding soft tissue and the second and fourth metatarsal bases. Deep, lateral and medial margins were all involved. A high index of suspicio...

Foot placement is a key determinant for the stabilization of walking speed and lateral motion of a biped. However, there is no closed form expression for the foot placement parameters in term of the walking speed or other gait parameters. A simple and intuitive control algorithm (called “Turkey Walking”) based on Virtual Model Control (VMC) was successfully applied to planar bipedal walking. Ho...

Persons with diabetes mellitus (DM) and peripheral neuropathy are at high risk for skin breakdown due to unnoticed excessive pressures to the plantar foot during walking. We developed methods that combined spiral x-ray computed tomography (SXCT) imaging and plantar pressure analysis to quantify internal foot structure and external pressure during plantar loading. Methods were tested using a sub...

This article argues that, contrary to some recent proposals, a given phonological form may be organised into at most one array of metrical structure at a time. The bulk of the paper is dedicated to a case study of Huariapano, a language that has been claimed to motivate multiple, coexisting but autonomous, layers of metrical parsing. I show that this conclusion is premature: both stress and seg...

This work presents a method to handle walking on rough terrain using inverse dynamics control and information from a stereo vision system. The ideal trajectories for the center of mass and the next position of the feet are given by a pattern generator. Then, an inverse dynamics control scheme relying on a quadratic programming optimization solver is used to let each foot go from its initial to ...

Abstract Passive ankle-foot prostheses are light-weighted and reliable, but they cannot generate net positive power, which is essential in restoring the natural gait pattern of amputees. Recent robotic addressed problem by actively controlling storage release energy generated during stance phase through mechanical deformation elastic elements housed device. This study proposes an innovative low...

case: isolated talus osteomyelitis caused by koch's bacillus (bk) is extremely rare. in this paper we report an isolated talus bone tuberculosis in a 52 year-old man who presented a 2-month history of swelling, pain and functional disability of his right ankle. surgical bone curetting and histological examination showed granuloma with central caseating necrosis. acid fast stain and pcr exa...