Background & Objective. Osteoarthritis is progressive degenerative disease resulting in significant affection of joints. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) are widely used in this condition but are associated with significant side effects; hence the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of nutritional supplements such as Glucosamine, Chondroitin sulphate and...

OBJECTIVE It is well known that limited joint mobility of the ankle and foot level, impaired muscular performance and reduced gait speed are risk factors for ulceration in diabetic foot. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of an experimental protocol of exercise therapy on joint mobility, muscular strength and gait speed in a group of long-term diabetic subjects. METHODS The prot...

Fixed torque measuring devices were used to measure the range of movement at three sites in 364 normal adolescents and young adults. The results confirm the findings of less reproducible measurement techniques that joint mobility at a particular site follows a Gaussian distribution with a wide range in a normal population. In addition, apart from very few individuals, mobility at one site could...

in this note first we define the notions of fuzzy positive implicativehyper bck-ideals of types 1,2,3 and 4. then we prove some theorems whichcharacterize the above notions according to the level subsets. also we obtainthe relationships among these notions, fuzzy (strong, weak, reflexive) hyperbck-ideals and fuzzy positive implicative hyper bck-ideals of types 5,6,7and 8. then, we define the no...

There is a growing interest towards self configuring/tuning automated general-purpose reusable heuristic approaches for combinatorial optimisation, such as, hyper-heuristics. Hyper-heuristics are search methodologies which explore the space of heuristics rather than the solutions to solve a broad range of hard computational problems without requiring any expert intervention. There are two commo...

Novel copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) materials have potential applications in solar cells, fuel cells, optical-limiting materials, gas sensors and field-effect transistors. Most recently there have been interests in applications for high dielectric constant material for capacitors. For example, Zhang et al. have reported a dielectric constant of 48 at 1MHz in an electrostrictive polymeric CuPc/Po...

An ideal tentacle manipulator is a non-conventional robotic arm with an infinite mobility. It has the capability of taking sophisticated shapes and of achieving any position and orientation in a 3D space. A tentacle manipulator is a hyper redundant or hyper degree of freedom manipulator. Hyper redundant robots produce changes of configuration using a continuous backbone made of sections which b...