objectives: although for those spinal cord injury (sci) patients with paralysis of the legs but not at arms, the primary means of mobility post injury is the manual wheelchair, there are many physiological and psychological advantages to standing and walking, such as improvement in respiratory function, lower limb weight bearing and preventing osteoporosis, pressure sores prevention etc. high m...

Research indicates that users of thermally modified wood lack information regarding the improved performance and any variations may exist for “same” product when manufactured by different companies. The goal this study was to evaluate variability in mechanical properties three hardwoods determine between manufacturers. To hardness, bending (modulus elasticity module rupture) shrinkage values, t...

We demostrate that the recently proposed interacting growth walk (IGW) model, modified for generating self-avoiding heteropolymers, proves to be a simpler alternative to the other Monte Carlo methods available in the literature for obtaining minimum energy conformations of lattice proteins. In fact, this simple growth algorithm seems to be capable of quickly leading to low energy states for all...