Multifunctional materials and devices found in nature serve as inspiration for advanced synthetic materials, structures, and robotics. Here, we elucidate the structural mechanics and unusual deformation mechanisms discovered in seahorses that provide them prehension and protection against predators. The seahorse tail is composed of subdermal bony plates arranged in articulating ring-like segmen...

Median nerve (MN) compression is a recognized component of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). In order to document compressive changes in the MN during hand activity, the carpal tunnel was imaged with neuromuscular ultrasound (NMUS). Ten patients with CTS and five normal controls underwent NMUS of the MN at rest and during dynamic stress testing (DST). DST maneuvers involve sustained isometric flexi...

In recent years, the spread of data-driven approaches for robotic grasp synthesis has come with increasing need reliable datasets, which can be built e.g. through video labelling. To this goal, it is important to define suitable rules characterize main human types, easily identifying them in streams. work, we present a novel taxonomy that builds upon related state art, but specifically thought ...

Data presented in this study were gathered in 1998 through a national mail survey of 3000 randomly selected osteopathic physicians. Of 979 (33.4%) questionnaires returned, 955 (97.5%) were usable for analysis. The use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) was determined for primary care physicians and specialists. Osteopathic manipulative treatment specialists and family physicians provid...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the manipulation of senses and speed on the performance of bimanual dynamic coordination. thus, 15 physical education students of shahid beheshti university with age range of 18-25 years performed in-phase and anti-phase patterns from slow to fast speed in five different sensory conditions. to investigate two motor patterns anova with repeated mea...

While osteopathic and allopathic medicine share many commonalities, there are key practice-based differences that uniquely characterize the two professions. For osteopathic medicine, one such defining feature is the use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT). Unfortunately, while various treatment modalities are taught in osteopathic medical schools, there has been relatively little work d...

" Scire est nescire, nisi id me Scire alius sciret AUTUMN, 1928.

The link between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) over long temporal scales is poorly understood. Here, we investigate biological monitoring and palaeoecological records on decadal, centennial and millennial time scales from a BEF framework by using deep sea, soft-sediment environments as a test bed. Results generally show positive BEF relationships, in agreement with BEF studies ba...