Holistic processing is often characterized as a process by which objects are perceived as a whole rather than a compilation of individual features. This mechanism may play an important role in the development of perceptual expertise because it allows for rapid integration across image regions. The present work explores whether holistic processing is present in latent fingerprint examiners, who ...

A recently developed parametric model by P. C. Chu et al. is used in this paper for determining subsurface thermal structure from satellite sea surface temperature observations. Based on a layered structure of temperature fields (mixed layer, thermocline, and lower layers), the parametric model transforms a vertical profile into several parameters: sea surface temperature (SST), mixed layer dep...

BACKGROUND Chronic ankle instability has been associated with altered joint kinematics at the ankle, knee and hip. However, no studies have investigated possible kinematic deviations at more distal segments of the foot. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if subjects with ankle instability and copers show altered foot and ankle kinematics and altered kinetics during a landing task when co...

As the extension of traditional linear (or X) inverted pendulum (IP), X-Z IP is a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), underactuated, open-loop unstable, and nonlinear system. In tracking control IP, equilibrium point changes with pivot position pendulum. This makes theories have difficulties in realization for The underactuated feature feedback linearization unsuitable to simplify design. Wi...

This study conducts experimental research on the liquid sloshing performance of a vane-type tank used in high orbit satellites. The tests without propellant management device (PMD) were developed under different liquid-filling ratios. Liquid with PMD performed directions and test results agree considerably theoretical results, indicating system’s reliability. A linear relationship was observed ...

Mechanically, the most economical gait for slow bipedal locomotion requires walking as an 'inverted pendulum', with: I, an impulsive, energy-dissipating leg compression at the beginning of stance; II, a stiff-limbed vault; and III, an impulsive, powering push-off at the end of stance. The characteristic 'M'-shaped vertical ground reaction forces of walking in humans reflect this impulse-vault-i...

OBJECTIVES Correction of craniofacial microsomia (CFM) presents several challenges concerning the modality of surgical intervention. The aim of this study was to assess early and late surgical outcome, by undertaking Euclidean distance matrix analysis (EDMA) of CFM patients exhibiting an unilateral mandibular deformity that was surgically corrected by an inverted L osteotomy and autogenous bone...

INTRODUCTION In general, two different models are employed when addressing animal and human locomotion on a simple mechanical level: the inverted pendulum model for walking, where the body is reduced to a point mass m at the center of mass (COM) vaulting over a rigid stance leg of length l0, and the spring-mass model for running or hopping, where the rigid stance leg is substituted by a compres...

Bipedal locomotion is a phenomenon that still eludes a fundamental and concise mathematical understanding. Conceptual models that capture some relevant aspects of the process exist but their full explanatory power is not yet exhausted. In the current study, we introduce the robustness criterion which defines the conditions for stable 1 ar X iv :1 40 3. 08 79 v1 [ cs .R O ] 4 M ar 2 01 4 locomot...

to assess seismic hazard, it is essential to estimate the potential seismicity, particularly estimation of size of the largest earthquake that can be identified by a distinct fault or earthquake source. one of the methods applied to estimate magnitude of earthquake is use of empirical relationships between magnitude and fault parameters. fault parameters for the earthquakes from early instrumen...