While self-controlled practice has been shown to enhance motor learning with various populations and novel tasks, it remains unclear if such effects would be found with athletes completing familiar tasks. Study 1 used a single case-study design with a world-champion kickboxer. We investigated whether giving the athlete a choice over the order of punches would affect punching velocity and impact...

The punching and post-punching shear behaviours of reinforced concrete (RC) flat plate structures are often studied by using a representative slab–column connection isolated from the parent structure. In this study, set numerical modelling techniques is established to create competent three-dimensional non-linear model simulate RC connections without reinforcement, through use which failure fea...

Hot punching with two different strategies has been demonstrated as a new method of fabricating high aspect ratio 3D microstructures for drug delivery. It has been shown that this process is highly versatile with good replication fidelity and yield.

This paper presents a novel approach for acquiring dynamic whole-body movements on humanoid robots focused on learning a control policy for the center of mass (CoM). In our approach, we combine both a model-based CoM controller and a model-free reinforcement learning (RL) method to acquire dynamic whole-body movements in humanoid robots. (i) To cope with high dimensionality, we use a model-base...

Lightning and other atmospheric noise interferes with Loran signal reception. This paper develops techniques to improve signal availability under these conditions. While the rootmean square (rms) electric field strengths may be quite large for a given lightning discharge, there is significant time between strikes where the background noise is only modest and signal reception is possible. By imp...

There exist some restrictions and difficulties in performing follicular unit extraction (FUE) in white-haired patients, for several reasons. In this paper, we introduce a novel technique for visualizing white hair during the punching procedure and graft preparation in FUE for white-haired patients. In white-haired older male patients, we dyed the surrounding scalp skin purple with a gentian vio...