To determine how arm movements influence postural sway in the upright position after stroke, interactions between arm, trunk, and center of pressure (CoP) displacements in the sagittal direction were investigated in participants with hemiparesis and healthy subjects. Participants swung both arms sagittally in either of 2 directions (in-phase, anti-phase) and at 2 speeds (preferred, fast) while ...

It has previously been shown that the Copenhagen (COP) rat contains several genetic loci that contribute to its mammary tumor-resistant phenotype after 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) administration. One of these loci, mammary carcinoma susceptibility 1 (Mcs1), is located on the centromeric end of chromosome 2 and appears to act in a semidominant fashion. To confirm the existence and inde...

Leprosy is a granulomatous disease that affects the peripheral nervous system, leading to loss of thermal, tactile and pain sensibility. Changes in plantar sensibility and proprioception caused by leprosy might affect postural balance control. The Body Center of Pressure (COP) constitutes the neuromuscular response to changes or accelerations of the body’s Center of Gravity and can be affected ...

We describe and justify thirteen technical properties that a component system must possess to work with object-oriented programming languages (such as Java, C++, or C#). Our components are designed for large-scale, modular construction of programs with static checking of program compositions. Jiazzi, our enhancement of Java, implements the technical properties that we describe. We use Jiazzi co...

A terrified woman called police because her ex-boyfriend was breaking into her home. Upon arrival, police heard screams coming from the basement. They stopped halfway down the stairs and found the ex-boyfriend pointing a rifle at the floor. Officers observed a strange look on the subject’s face as he slowly raised the rifle in their direction. Both officers fired their weapons, killing the susp...

We consider a search game on a graph in which one cop in a helicopter ying from vertex to vertex tries to catch the invisible robber. The existence of the winning program for the cop in this problem depends only on the robber's speed. We investigate the problem of nding the minimal robber's speed which prevents the cop from winning. For this parameter we give tight bounds in terms of the linkag...

We theoretically analyze the Cops and Robber Game for the first time in a multidimensional grid. It is shown that for an ndimensional grid, at least n cops are necessary to ensure capture of the robber. We also present a set of cop strategies for which n cops are provably sufficient to catch the robber. Further, for two-dimensional grid, we provide an efficient cop strategy for which the robber...

BACKGROUND At the maximal Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET), several ventilatory variables are analyzed, including the ventilatory equivalent for oxygen (VE/VO2). The minimum VE/VO2 value reflects the best integration between the respiratory and cardiovascular systems and may be called "Cardiorespiratory Optimal Point (COP)". OBJECTIVE To determine the behavior of the COP according to g...

Cognitive impairment is a dysfunction observed as a sequel of various neurodegenerative diseases, as well as a concomitant element in the elderly stages of life. In clinical settings, this malfunction is identified as mild cognitive impairment. Previous studies have suggested that cognitive impairment could be the result of a reduction in the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDN...