Purpose: Proprioception is a part of the somatosensory system responsible for sending information to the central nervous system to monitor the status of various body parts relative to each another. One of the main causes of impaired proprioception is fatigue. In the following study, the effects of fatigue on quadriceps muscle and hence on knee proprioception in healthy subjects was studied.&nbs...

objective: cone beam computed tomography (cbct) is applied for the imaging of the maxillofacial and dental structures, particularly for surgical treatments and dental implants. the aim of this study was to assess the effect of slice thickness on the accuracy of cbct linear measurements. methods: in this diagnostic accuracy study, forty-two titanium pins with the same dimensions were inserted in...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the existence of proprioceptive deficits between the injured limb and the uninjured (i.e. contralateral normal) limb, in individuals who suffered complete tearing of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), using a strength reproduction test. METHODS Sixteen patients with complete tearing of the ACL participated in the study. A voluntary maximum isometric strength test w...

ECG (Electrocardiogram) signals originating from heart muscles, generate massive volume of digital data. They need to be compressed or approximated for efficient transmission and storage. ECG signal compression is traditionally performed in three ways: direct, transform and parameter extraction. Polynomial approximation which is a form of parameter extraction method, is employed here. This pape...

This paper presents three forms of linear transform based speaker adaptation that can give better performance than standard maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) adaptation. For unsupervised adaptation, a lattice-based technique is introduced which is compared to MLLR using confidence scores. For supervised adaptation, estimation of the adaptation matrices using the maximum mutual informa...

Triangular patterns phase shifting profilometry is a method of structured light whose three-dimensional reconstructions are susceptible to error from gamma distortion. In practice, the luminance nonlinearity caused by the gamma distortion effect of a digital projector and a digital camera yields undesired fringe intensity changes, which substantially reduce the measurement accuracy, and while t...

A simple approach was developed to predict corn yields using the MoDerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data product from two geographically separate major corn crop production regions: Illinois, USA and Heilongjiang, China. The MOD09A1 data, which are eight-day interval surface reflectance data, were obtained from day of the year (DOY) 89 to 337 to calculate the leaf area index ...

In this paper we present a new type of binary classifier defined on the unit cube. This classifier combines some of the aspects of the standard methods that have been used in the logical analysis of data (LAD) and geometric classifiers, with a nearest-neighbor paradigm. We assess the predictive performance of the new classifier in learning from a sample, obtaining generalization error bounds th...