Speech conveys many things beyond content, including aspects of appraisal, feeling, and attitude that have not been much studied. In this work we identify 14 aspects of stance that occur frequently in radio news stories and that could be useful for information retrieval, including indications of subjectivity, immediacy, local relevance, and newness. We observe that newsreaders often mark their ...

Patients with Parkinson's disease display impairments of postural control most particularly in active, challenging conditions. The objective of the present study was to analyze early signs of disease-related and also age-related impairments in mediolateral body extension and postural control. Fifty-five participants (18 Hoehn and Yahr stage 2 patients in the off-drug condition, 18 healthy elder...

Frailty is a disorder of multiple inter-related physiological systems. It is unclear whether the level of physical performance factors can serve as markers of frailty and a sign. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between frailty and physical performance in elderly women. One hundred fourteen elderly women participated in this study, their aged was from 65 to 80. We were ...

In this chapter, a series of biomechanics simulations were conducted to reconstruct a specific movement – spine flexion/extension in sagittal plane of a subject. The motion capture was used to collect the kinematics information of the subject. These motions were used to drive a customized musculoskeletal model in OpenSim. Additionally, the muscle actuation forces and joint reactions were comput...

The incidence of foot and ankle disease increases as the age increases [1,2]. However, there was no report about differences of foot motion between senile person and young adults. The purpose of this study is to analyze distinctions according to age in segmental foot motion using 3D multifoot model from healthy senior and young adults. One hundred senile (50 males, 50 females) and young adults ...

Gait initiation (GI) involves passing from bipedal to unipedal stance. It requires a rapid movement of the center of foot pressure (CoP) towards the future swing foot and of the center of mass (CoM) in the direction of the stance foot prior to the incoming step. This anticipatory postural adjustment (APA) allows disengaging the swing leg from the ground and establishing favorable conditions for...

Expressions of epistemic stance in academic discourse reflect not only the authors’ commitment to truth what is being said, but also their awareness other members community, current thinking within discipline, and established patterns interaction. Stance-taking strongly embedded culture language, as demonstrated numerous studies that focus on L2 English (e.g. Hinkel 2002; Dontcheva-Navratilova ...

  Background : Biomechanical factors are known to be important in knee osteoarthritis (OA) development and progression. This study was designed to determine changes of hamstrings muscle activation, knee adduction moment and ankle rotation angle in two knee osteoarthritis (mild and moderate) and a healthy control group.   Methods: 16 females (10 with mild and 6 with moderate medial knee osteoart...

Recent research has shown that academic writing is not ‘author-evacuated’ but, rather, carries a representation of the writers’ identity. One way through which writers project their identity in academic writing is stance-taking toward propositions advanced in the text. Appropriate stance-taking has proved to be challenging for novice writers of Research Articles (RAs), especially those writing ...

For years linguists have noted that intonation patterns and sentence-final discourse particles encode similar meanings across languages (e.g., [23], [21]). Yet the division of labor between the two kinds of systems—and in particular whether there exists a compensatory distribution between them— remains to be clarified. In this article, we focus on two languages within the Romance group (Catalan...