The aim of this study was to determine the effects that soft tissue motion has on ground reaction forces, joint torques and joint reaction forces in drop landings. To this end a four body-segment wobbling mass model was developed to reproduce the vertical ground reaction force curve for the first 100 ms of landing. Particular attention was paid to the passive impact phase, while selecting most ...

Context dependencies are one of the major problems in future ubiquitous computing environments. In this paper we introduce Genetic Relation of Contexts (GRC), a lightweight distributed algorithm to analyze interdependencies of context data in an efficient decentralized manner. We present first results of the evaluation of the system, proposing a relevant increase in context quality by the use o...

The aim of this study was to determine the effects that soft tissue motion has on ground reaction forces, joint torques and joint reaction forces in drop landings. To this end a four body-segment wobbling mass model was developed to reproduce the vertical ground reaction force curve for the first 100 ms of landing. Particular attention was paid to the passive impact phase, while selecting most ...

Well established governance, risk and compliance functions have for many years formed a key part of management practice in both the private and public sectors in Australia. A relatively new concept, " GRC " , has emerged, which emphasises on building a closer interrelationship between governance, risk and compliance, and how these functions can be further integrated to increase their effectiven...

The effects of 3-methylcholanthrene and phenobarbital treatment on the adult rat hepatic cytosolic glucocorticoid (GRc) receptor were investigated. Analyses of sucrose gradient profiles and equilibrium binding data of [3H]dexamethasone bound to the GRc revealed that administration of 3-methylcholanthrene (20-40 mg/kg daily i.p. for 2 days) to adult female Fischer F344 rats led to a significant ...

Intestinal development is modified by age and nutrition, mediated in part by insulin-like growth factors (IGF-I, IGF-II) and insulin. We have investigated whether expression of IGF-I, IGF-II and insulin receptors (IGF-IR, IGF-IIR and IR; measured by real-time RT-PCR) and binding capacity (Bmax) of IGF-IR, IGF-IIR and IR in the mucosa of the small and large intestine of neonatal calves are modif...

Rat liver glucocorticoid-receptor complex (GRc) was purified 2000-fold by a combination of methods including (NH4)2SO4-fractionation and phosphocellulose and DNA-cellulose chromatography. The purified glucocorticoid receptor preparation contained a major peptide of Mr = 90,000 and the GRc sedimented as 4 S in 5-20% sucrose gradients. An additional peptide of Mr = 45,000 (45K) was also observed....

Schistosomiasis, a neglected global pandemic, may be curtailed by blocking transmission of the parasite via its intermediate hosts, aquatic snails. Elucidating the genetic basis of snail-schistosome interaction is a key to this strategy. Here we map a natural parasite-resistance polymorphism from a Caribbean population of the snail Biomphalaria glabrata. In independent experimental evolution li...

Granular computing (GrC) has emerged as one of the fastest growing information processing paradigm in computational intelligence and human-centric systems. It has been gaining popularity in the past ten years. GrC is often loosely defined as an umbrella term to cover any theories, methodologies, techniques, and tools that make use of granules in complex problem solving. As a new paradigm for th...

Granular computing(GrC) is a recent label, roughly speaking, jointly coined by Lin and Zadeh in 1996 to denote an emgering technolgy that is based on the computing/mathematical theory of an ancient concept of granulation. In this paper, we present the ”final” GrC model that simplify the earlier version.