The aim of this study was to establish the skin temperature (Tsk) thermal profile for the Brazilian population and to compare the differences between female and male Brazilian adults. A total of 117 female and 103 male were examined with a thermographic camera. The Tsk of 24 body regions of interest (ROI) were recorded and analyzed. Male Tsk results were compared to female and 10 ROI were evalu...

OBJECTIVE The tight skin (Tsk-1) mouse has been proposed as a model for systemic sclerosis on the basis of increased accumulation of collagen and glycosaminoglycans in the skin, and by the presence of serum autoantibodies. The genetic basis of the mutation has been identified as a genomic duplication within the fibrillin-1 (Fbn-1) gene that results in a larger than normal Fbn-1 transcript, but ...

The Takagi Sugeno Kang (TSK) fuzzy approach is popular since its output either a constant or function. Parameter identification and structure are the two key requirements for building TSK system. input utilized in can have an impact on number of rules produced such way that employing more data dimensions typically results rules, which causes rule complexity. This issue be solved by dimension re...

Background: We compared the amount of variation in Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information SystemPhysical Function (PROMIS PF) Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) accounted for by The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia(TSK) and its short form (TSK-4) independent of other factors. Questionnaire coverage, reliability, and validitywere compared for both TSK and TSK-4 using mean sca...

Seven male students were exposed to four varied air temperature environments: hot (37 degrees C) to neutral (27 degrees C) (HN), neutral to hot (NH), cool (17 degrees C) to neutral (CN), and neutral to cool (NC). The air temperature was maintained at the first condition for 20 min, then was changed to the second condition after 15 min and was held there for 20 min. Each subject wore a T-shirt, ...

in industrial robotic manipulator, due to the presence of quite nonlinear dynamic and structural and nonstructural uncertainties, a precise model is not easily obtained. as a result, designing a controller with a suitable function based on system model is a challenging issue. sliding mode control is a robust control with numerous applications which can overcome the aforementioned uncertainties....

BACKGROUND Cell-cell communication is essential in tissue patterning. In early amphibian development, mesoderm is formed in the blastula-stage embryo through inductive interactions in which vegetal cells act on overlying equatorial cells. Members of the TGF-beta family such as activin B, Vg1, derrière and Xenopus nodal-related proteins (Xnrs) are candidate mesoderm inducing factors, with furthe...

BACKGROUND The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK), an instrument for measuring fear of movement/(re)injury, has been confirmed as an important predictor for the persistence of pain-related disability. The aims of this study were to evaluate the psychometric properties of a German version of the TSK (TSK-GV), examining aspects of content validity with special focus on fear-avoidance and enduran...

Oscillators are an artefact of Electrical Technology. By and large oscillator designing can be viewed as a ‘Scientific Art’. Furthermore, the use of computer in the designing process of oscillator added the wings to it. FuzzyLogic-Computer-Aided-Design (FLCAD) using MATLAB FUZZY TOOLBOX amalgamates the ability of Fuzzy Logic to model colloquial propositions involved in the oscillator design. De...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to develop a cross-culturally adapted Thai version of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK) and investigate its reliability and validity among patients with knee osteoarthritis. METHODS The TSK was translated into Thai language and culturally adapted in line with the international standards. The Thai TSK questionnaire was then tested for internal consistenc...