Fast bowling in the game of cricket requires repetitive spinal extension, lateral deviation, lumbar flexion and thoracodorsal rotation. Back pain is common, and it has been shown that pars interarticularis defects had occurred in over 50% of a group of teenage fast bowlers. Many of these defects will heal, but some cause chronic pain which prevents bowling, although other activities may be pain...

Hypothermia and localized cold injuries are largely preventable with proper preparation for activities in cold environments. Proficient field management is crucial to the final outcome in terms of function and viability because proper care is vital to preventing exacerbation of the initial exposure and injury. Rapid rewarming is optimal when further cold exposure can be avoided reliably. Repeti...

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) associated with acute carpal tunnel syndrome (aCTS) developed in a 38-year-old right-handed man following radial artery cannulation (RAC) during the course of lumbar spine surgery. Inciting events and risk factors that might have led to these complications included: multiple arterial punctures and subsequent hematoma formation, radial artery spasm compounde...

In the recent nosology of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5), the Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are categorized under Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDs) that refer to a group of conditions that typically manifest early in development and are characterised by developmental deficits that produce impairments of personal, social, academic or occupational ...

Requirement Engineering (RE) activities are manual and critical by nature. Providing some automated support for the RE tasks helps analysts to reduce manual labor, and in consequence, reduce defects rates and increase reuse and motivation. In this paper, we introduce a UML framework and tool support which automates part of the RE process. Using UML stereotypes concepts as the core of this solut...

Manual annotation of ego-centric visual media for lifelogging, activity monitoring, object counting, etc. is challenging due to the repetitive nature of the images especially for events such as driving, eating, meeting, watching television, etc. where there is no change in scenery. This makes the annotation task boring and there is danger of missing things through loss of concentration. This is...

The performance of systems that exhibit repetitive disturbances can be significantly improved using repetitive control. If the repetitive disturbance is periodic with respect to time, perfect asymptotic disturbance rejection can be achieved by well known methods. However, many systems have a repetitive nature with respect to a variable other than time. For this type of systems, we propose a del...