OBJECTIVE To determine whether some offspring of women with diabetes are intrinsically more active than others in utero and whether those who are active are able to normalize their birth weight despite maternal hyperglycemia. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a three-phase study to view the relationship between fetal movements and subsequent birth weight in women with diabetes. Phase I...

The relationship between the displacements, velocities, and accelerations of the articulators and speech rate is investigated experimentally. Especially, we address the question as to whether it is possible to predict the speech rate from articulatory kinematics by means of a linear regression model. Two different kinds of corpora have been recorded. The first consists of only two short sentenc...

Pnicogen bonding is a noncovalent interaction between the electrophilic region of a phosphorus atom and a Lewis base. Although this interaction can be comparable in strength to other noncovalent interactions, no systematic application in organic synthesis or catalysis is known so far. To identify the potential of this interaction for organocatalysis, we have now analysed different pnicogen-bond...

Due to methodological limitations neural function is mostly studied under open-loop conditions. Normally, however, nervous systems operate in closed-loop where sensory input is processed to generate behavioral outputs, which again change the sensory input. Here, we investigate the closed-loop responses of an identified visual interneuron, the blowfly H1-cell, that is part of a neural circuit in...

Solar mini-dimmings can be detect in the Extreme Ultra-Violet coronal eruptions. Here, sequences of 171_A images taken by Solar Dynamic Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembaly on 13 June 2010 are used. In this special day, both of coronal mass ejection and prominence were observed. The average velocities and accelerations of 500 mini-dimmings which were detected using on feature based classif...

The study of the acceleration properties at the end eeector is important in the analysis, design, and control of robot manipulators. In previous eeorts aimed at addressing this problem, the end-eeector acceleration has been treated as a vector combining both the linear and angular accelerations. The methodology presented in this article provides characterizations of these two diierent types of ...

This paper presents an accelerometer-based pen device for online handwriting recognition applications. The accelerometer-based pen device consists of a triaxial accelerometer, a microcontroller, and an RF wireless transmission module. Users can hold the pen device to write numerals in air without space limitations. The accelerations generated by hand motions are generated by the accelerometer e...

The study of the acceleration properties a t the end effector is important in the analysis, design, and control of robot manipulators. I n previous ejTorts aimed a t addressing this problem, the end-effector acceleration has been treated as a vector combining both the linear and ‘angular accelerations. The methodology presented in this article provides characterization:s of these two different ...

We investigated the influence of vestibular stimulation with different angular accelerations and velocities on the perception of visual motion direction. Constant accelerations resulting in different angular velocities and constant angular velocities obtained at different accelerations were combined in twenty healthy subjects. Random-dot kinematograms with coherently moving pixels and randomly ...

Vision can improve bipedal upright stability during standing and affect spatiotemporal parameters during walking. However, little is known about the effects of visual deprivation on gait dynamic stability. We have tested 28 subjects during walking under two different visual conditions, full vision (FV) and no vision (NV), measuring their upper body accelerations. Lower accelerations were found ...