Humans and cats respond to balance challenges, delivered via horizontal support surface perturbations, with directionally selective muscle recruitment and constrained ground reaction forces. It has been suggested that this postural strategy arises from an interaction of limb biomechanics and proprioceptive networks in the spinal cord. A critical experimental validation of this hypothesis is to ...

Long-span bridges, as vital structures, play a very important role in economic development. Furthermore, the results of several earthquake-damaged bridges showed that their seismic behavior was different from that predicted under uniform excitation and in some cases the responses were more than predicted results. Therefore, the damaged bridges under non-uniform excitations were re-analyzed and ...

A novel approach to reconstructing the principal directions of a diffusion tensor field directly from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data using a tensor tomography data acquisition approach was developed. If tensor eigenvalues are assumed to be known, the reconstruction of principal directions requires fewer measurements than the reconstruction of the full tensor field. The tensor tomography ...

background: this study is the first research investigating the possible effect of pulsed power signals on the characteristics of cortical bone by comparing the mechanical properties of this type of bone pre and post expose to pulsed power. methods: a positive buck-boost converter was applied to generate adjustable high voltage, high frequency pulses (up to 500 v and 10 khz). the functional beha...

We describe methods for taking into account unlabeled data in the training of a kernel-based classifier, such as a Support Vector Machines (SVM). We propose two approaches utilizing unlabeled points in the vicinity of labeled ones. Both of the approaches effectively modify the metric of the pattern space, either by using nonspherical Gaussian density estimates which are determined using EM, or ...

In this paper, we studied numerically both kinematic and dynamic models of a biologically inspired mammal-like octopod robot walking with a tetrapod gait. Three different nonlinear oscillators were used to drive the robot’s legs working as central pattern generators. In addition, also a new, relatively simple and efficient model was proposed and investigated. The introduced model of the gait ge...

A common derivation of principal component analysis (PCA) is based on the minimization of the squared-error between centered data and linear model, corresponding to the reconstruction error. In fact, minimizing the squared-error leads to principal subspace analysis where scaled and rotated principal axes of a set of observed data, are estimated. In this paper, we introduce and investigate an al...

Both periodic barriers and foundations can be used as passive isolation measures to reduce the unfavorable vibrations affecting protected superstructure. Under a certain direction of excitation, frequency band gaps provided by are usually distinguishable due different orientations these subsurface structures. In this study, series field tests conducted assess combined usage barrier foundation i...