Rope skipping is an effective way of training. In this study, we concentrated on the rope skipping exercise of using the equipment without a rope which is called “air jump rope”. We have developed a system for recognizing the rotational motion of the rope skipping exercise. The system analyses a motion of jumping rope using the moving image processing using the IR camera of Microsoft Kinect. By...

Pleomorphic lipoma is a rare neoplasm that predominantly occurs in the dermis or subcutis of the posterior neck, upper back, and shoulders. Although pleomorphic lipoma is a benign tumor, it may contain atypical cells. As a variant of spindle cell lipoma, pleomorphic lipoma clinically presents as a slow-growing and well-circumscribed subcutaneous mass. Rarely, some patients have multiple lesions...

In the giant octopus of the North Pacific, Octopus dofleini martini, the male reproductive tract contains up to 10 spermatophores. Each is about a metre long. It has a tube-shaped body surrounded by a tough, thin membrane, the 'outer tunic'. The body consists of two parts. The thicker part, which during copulation emerges first from the 'penis', contains the sperm rope with IO-IO tightly packed...

The application of mussel spat rope for enabling the passage of redfin bully Gobiomorphus huttoni through culverts, which create velocity barriers, was trialled in the laboratory. No fish were able to access the un-roped control pipes whereas 52% successfully negotiated the pipes in the rope treatments. The success of fish ascending treatment pipes suggests mussel spat rope may be effective for...

We show that given an embedding of Enriques manifold index d in a large enough projective space, there will exist embedded multiple structures with conormal bundle isomorphic to the trace zero module universal covering map, cover being either hyperkähler or Calabi–Yau manifold. then these (also known as d-ropes) can be smoothed smooth manifolds respectively. Hence we obtain flat family (or Cala...

OBJECTIVE To examine predictors of stroke recurrence in patients with a high vs a low likelihood of having an incidental patent foramen ovale (PFO) as defined by the Risk of Paradoxical Embolism (RoPE) score. METHODS Patients in the RoPE database with cryptogenic stroke (CS) and PFO were classified as having a probable PFO-related stroke (RoPE score of >6, n = 647) and others (RoPE score of ≤...

We design and implement an Android application, “Activity Stalker”, that can recognize and record what activity a person is doing in real time. In particular, the application can automatically distinguish between five activities: standing, walking, running, jumping jacks, and jumping rope. We use various machine-learning models and show that the classification accuracy is quite reasonable, both...

The current specifications governing the construction of wire rope and the fabrication of the assemblies used in movable bridges are no longer the best or most reasonable choice for wire rope selection. The current AASHTO and AREMA specifications for wire rope list “6x19 class improved plow steel wire rope of 6x25 filler wire construction with hard fiber core” as the construction for both opera...

Magnetic clouds (MCs) are a subset of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) characterized primarily by a smooth rotation in the magnetic field direction indicative of the presence of a magnetic flux rope. Energetic particle signatures suggest MC flux ropes remain magnetically connected to the Sun at both ends, leading to widely used model of global MC structure as an extended flux rope,...