Running performance, energy requirements and musculoskeletal stresses are directly related to the action-reaction forces between the limb and the ground. For human runners, the force-time patterns from individual footfalls can vary considerably across speed, foot-strike and footwear conditions. Here, we used four human footfalls with distinctly different vertical force-time waveform patterns to...

We simulated dynamic rupture propagation along a branched fault, which is partially segmented by a slit. This is an analogy of a strike slip fault, which displays a jog structure on the ground surface but forms a continuous system at depth. We observed that rupture directivity can significantly change due to the existence of the fault slit and that the relative location of the slit to the hypoc...

Parkinsono liga (PL) yra kompleksinis neuropsichiatrinis sutrikimas, pasireiškiantis motoriniais ir nemotoriniais simptomais. Ši vienas dažniausių neurodege­neracinių sutrikimų – antra po Alzheimerio ligos, o jos paplitimas didėja su amžiumi. Liga dažnesnė vyrams, baltaodžių populiacijoje kaimo gyventojams. PL priežastys nėra tiksliai nustatytos, tačiau manoma, kad ją lemia modifikuojamų nemodi...

Animal societies are aggregations of cooperating individuals that are isolated from other societies by limitations of dispersal and/or hostile exclusion mechanisms. The individuals within them are more related to the members of their own society than to random individuals in the population at large and quite often this relatedness is high because societies are families or groups of families. Fo...

Convex Geometric Tools in Information Theory by Varun Suhas Jog Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering — Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Professor Venkat Anantharam, Chair The areas of information theory and geometry mirror each other in remarkable ways, with several concepts in geometry having analogues in information theory. These observations prov...

A high-level motion control system for the animation of human-like gures is introduced which generates a wide variety of individual running styles in real time. Sequences such as a leisurely jog, a fast sprint or a bouncy run are conveniently obtained by interactively setting the values of \running" parameters such as desired velocity, step length, \ ight" height or \heel/toe" strike while obse...

We attach an inexpensive pressure sensor to the side of a PDA and use it as three input devices at once. Users can squeeze the device to provide near-continuous input to applications. At the same time the drivers interpret a sudden full squeeze as the push of a virtual button. A user's sudden pressure release while squeezing is detected as the push of a second virtual button. We briefly describ...

Opioidai – vieni dažniausiai stipraus skausmo malšinimui vartojamų medikamentų. Nepaisant analgezinio poveikio, ši medikamentų grupė sukelia ir šalutinių reiškinių, tokių kaip silpnumas, pykinimas ar vėmimas, haliucinacijos, priklausomybė hiperalgezija. Pastaro­sios būklės veikimo mechanizmas dar nėra iki galo su­prantamas, tačiau manoma, jog jis susijęs su glutamato receptorių aktyvavimu nešik...