For a typical biologically inspired multi-segmental mechanical system, the system’s locomotion behavior is rectified from the segments’ rhythmic oscillation. A central pattern generator (CPG) based controller has been developed to achieve the locomotion with a certain sense of natural oscillation. We designed and manufactured a prototype mechanical rectifier (PMR) system which captures the esse...

The structures of these metabolites were deduced from proton magnetic resonance (pmr) and mass spectral data and from the chemical correlation between these metabolities and appropriately selected reference compounds. In the pmr spectrum of I (Fig. 1) the signal at t 2.70 represents five aromatic protons. Singlet resonances at z 6.80 and 7.04 arise from the 4-N and 1-N-CH8 groups. Resonances ar...

Helliwell et al wrote an excellent article on the diagnosis and management of polymyalgia rheumatica, but I do question one of their statements that the average fulltime GP would see five new cases of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) per year.1 They quote an incidence in the UK of 8.42 per 10 000 person years. In an average size practice of less than 2000 patients per GP, surely this correlates to ...

TErrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) offers capabilities equivalent to the second generation of mobile phones with voice and limited data capabilities. TETRA needs to evolve to satisfy increasing user demand for new services and facilities as well as gleaning the benefits of new technology. An initial enhancement (TETRA Enhanced Data Service, TEDS) has been agreed. The enhanced TETRA services allo...

Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common inflammatory rheumatic disease of the elderly that is subject to wide variations in clinical practice and is managed both in the primary and secondary care settings by general practitioners, rheumatologists and non-rheumatologists. Considerable uncertainty exists relating to diagnosis, management and outcome in patients with PMR. The guidelines presented...

Stress fractures, a painful injury, are caused by excessive fatigue in bone. This study on damage accumulation in bone sought to determine if the Palmgren-Miner rule (PMR), a well-known linear damage accumulation hypothesis, is predictive of fatigue failure in bone. An electromagnetic shaker apparatus was constructed to conduct cyclic and variable amplitude tests on bovine bone specimens. Three...

The aim of the worksite study is to elucidate the strain reducing impact of different forms of spending lunch breaks. With the help of the so-called silent room cabin concept, it was possible to induce a lunch-break relaxation opportunity that provided visual and territorial privacy. To evaluate the proposed effects, 14 call center agents were assigned to either 20 min progressive muscle relaxa...

In storage system, the higher density perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) channel requires more advanced signal setection method to satisfy the bit error rate performance. Recently the iterative decoding is in the limelight part of the coding theory for the storage system. Famous iterative codes are the LDPC code and the Turbo code. In this paper, we consider the serial concatenated convolut...

Lysosome exocytosis plays a major role in resealing plasma membrane (PM) disruptions. This process involves two sequential steps. First, lysosomes are recruited to the periphery of the cell and then fuse with the damaged PM. However, the trafficking molecular machinery involved in lysosome exocytosis and PM repair (PMR) is poorly understood. We performed a systematic screen of the human Rab fam...

Background: Glucocorticoids (GC) are the cornerstone of treatment polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA), but they associated with several adverse events (AEs). Moreover, a considerable proportion patients relapse during GC tapering. Objectives: To describe efficacy safety JAK-inhibitor baricitinib (BARI) in group PMR and/or GCA. Methods: Case series GCA refractory disease ...