There are many tactile devices for indentation examinations to measure mechanical properties of tissue. The purpose of this paper is to develop a portable indentation robotic device to show its usability for measuring the mechanical properties of a healthy abdominal tissue. These measurements will help to develop suitable mathematical models representing abdominal tissue. A 1-DOF portable robot...

background: in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia (noa), vital spermatozoa from the tissue is obtained from testes by enzymatic treatment besides the mechanical treatment. objective: to increase the sperm recovery success of testicular sperm extraction (tese), with enzymatic digestion if no sperm is obtained from testis tissue by mechanical method. materials and methods: tissue samples w...

American National Standards (ANSI Standards) developed by Accredited Standards Committees S1, S2, S3, S3/SC 1, and S12 in the areas of acoustics, mechanical vibration and shock, bioacoustics, animal bioacoustics, and noise, respectively, are published by the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). In addition to these standards, ASA publishes a catalog of Acoustical American National Standards. To...

2 Walking experiment 4 2.1 Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.1 Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.2 Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.3 Acoustical analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.3.1 Extraction of walking excerpts . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.3.2 Acoustical...

An advanced configuration 1-3 piezocomposite, designated by its manufacturer as SonoPanel(TM), has been investigated for potential underwater acoustical applications. In-air electromechanical characteristics and in-water acoustical properties of the SonoPanel(TM) were experimentally examined. The in-air impedance measurement results showed the existence of parasitic modes in the composite panel...