introduction: transtibial amputation is the most common amputation in lower limbs. volume loss of residual limb occurs during daily use of prostheses, which results in pistoning between residual limb and prosthetic socket. the goal of this study was to design and fabricate a pneumatic suspension system in transtibial supracondylar prostheses and to evaluate its effect on residual limb pistoning...

This paper considers the robust servomechanism design for a polytopic uncertain system subject to a previewable reference signal. Based on the robust mixed LQ/H= criterion, we develop a design method of a state feedback controller with integral and preview actions achieving the robust tracking performance in terms of linear matrix inequalities. A numerical example is also included to show the a...

BACKGROUND Tympanometry and pneumatic otoscopy are recommended for diagnosis of otitis media, but are not frequently used by general practitioners (GPs). We examined how, after targeted short training, GP diagnosis and management of childhood ear disease was changed by the addition of these techniques to non-pneumatic otoscopy. We further explored factors influencing the uptake of these techniq...

background achalasia is the most recognized motor disorder of the esophagus.because it is an uncommon disease, most studies have reviewed small numbers of patients. here, we report demographic, clinical features and treatment outcomes in 700 achalasia patients. methods in all patients, diagnosis was established based on clinical, radiological, endoscopic and manometric criteria. a questionnaire...

The paper provides general insight into the analog systems diagnostics architecture. Automation of the wavelet transform de-noising procedure is presented. Decision trees based fuzzy logic decision making module for single and multiple fault detection of the 4th order servomechanism is described. The factor for assessment of the diagnostic quality considering limited size of the learning data s...

In this paper, we derive a “hamiltonian formalism” for a wide class of mechanical systems, including classical hamiltonian systems, nonholonomic systems, some classes of servomechanism... This construction strongly relies in the geometry characterizing the different systems. In particular, we obtain that the class of the so-called algebroids covers a great variety of mechanical systems. Finally...