OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships among passive measures of weight-bearing dorsiflexion range of motion, non-weight-bearing dorsiflexion range of motion and dorsiflexion stiffness, thereby establishing whether they assess similar mechanical characteristics, as each measure has been implicated in injury risk during landings. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. ...

This paper addresses the problem of time-varying bearing formation control in d ( ? 2 ) -dimensional Euclidean space by exploring Persistence Excitation (PE) desired reference. A general concept Bearing Persistently Exciting (BPE) defined is here fully developed. By providing a that BPE, distributed laws for multi-agent systems under both single- and double-integrator dynamics are proposed usin...

Weight loss associated with tumor burden has been postulated to be due to an energy imbalance resulting from increased hepatic gluconeogenesis secondary to Cori cycle activity. The mechanisms which control pyruvate metabolism are inherent to the control of gluconeogenesis in the liver. Therefore, the metabolism of pyruvate was evaluated in a transplanted tumor model in rodents which has previou...

The effect of the rotational speed and axial torque on the diagnostics of tapered rolling element bearing defects was investigated. The accelerometer was mounted on the bearing housing and connected to Sound and Vibration Analyzer (SVAN 958) and was used to measure the accelerations from the bearing housing. The data obtained from the bearing was processed to detect damage of the bearing using ...