[Purpose] To investigate the effects of erect sitting, slouched posture with cross-legged sitting, and erect posture with cross-legged sitting on the lumbar and pelvic angles, and gluteal pressure. [Subjects] For the experiments, 17 healthy women were recruited. [Methods] All subjects were asked to perform three sitting postures: erect sitting, slouched posture with cross-legged sitting, and er...

The study applied the Theory of Planned Behavior - TPB (Ajzen, 1991) and Norm Activation Model NAM (Schwartz, 1977) to demonstrate affecting factors on behavioral intention in energy saving farmers Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Research data were collected from 204 farmer households using electricity four provinces: Tien Giang, Dong Thap, An Kien Giang. Applying structural equation modeling (SEM), has...

The main aims of this research are the design and implementation of a multilayered and interactive geomatic map of the cultural heritage of Tuscia, one of the richest and most complex cultural areas of Italy, thanks to the presence of different civilizations, from Etruscans and Romans to the Middle Age. Its cultural heritage is very rich, valuable and above all diversified because including tan...

background: considering the school nursing standards, which is the most important and vital element of the school health team, can be a fundamental step toward solving the current and future problems of the school and society health. the present research was done with the goal of determining the current situation of the standard of the school health nursing process in elementary schools of kerm...

A software radio is a radio whose channel modulation waveforms are defined in software. A software radio receiver is an embedded platform that can support different communication standards. All the base-band processing is performed on a DSP. On the receiver side, the base-band processing encompasses matched filtering of the incoming data, frame synchronization, frequency offset and phase offset...

in this study, levels of cadmium, lead, arsenic and mercury heavy metals, which are required by the who and the unfao to be determined in sea food, were evaluated using flame atomic absorption spectroscopy technique, in tissues of two commonly consumed fish in iran namely rutilus frisii kutum and cyprinus carpio collected from the south coastline of the caspian sea. the average concentration of...

[Purpose] This study investigated the changes in the muscle activities of the trunk and lower limbs of healthy adults during a one-legged bridge exercise using a sling, and with the addition of hip abduction. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-seven healthy individuals participated in this study (14 males and 13 females). The participants were instructed to perform the bridge exercises under five di...

In this chapter, we introduce legged robots. After introducing the history of legged robot research in Sect. 16.1, we start to discuss hopping robots and analyze a simple passive walker as a typical cycling walking robot in Sect. 16.2; the Poincaré map is one of the most important tools to analyze its dynamics and stability. In Sect. 16.3, the dynamics and control of general biped robots are di...

Various strategic plans compiled by the local levels of government seek to advance need integrate planning frameworks and improve service delivery related content through application performance management tools. From perspective municipalities, all policies at be articulated with empirical based plan-level formulation in compliance set assessment criteria. Using South Africa as a case study, m...

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of active muscle mass on cardiovascular drift (CVdrift) during prolonged exercise. Twelve subjects with peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak) of 3.52 ± 0.52 L·min(-1) (mean ± SD) cycled for 55 min with 80 revolutions per minute with either two legs (2-legged) or one leg (1-legged). Oxygen uptake was at 60% of VO2peak throughout the 2-legged trial and at ...