Instrumented treadmills provide a convenient means for applying horizontal perturbations during gait or standing. However, varying the treadmill belt speed introduces inertial artifacts in the sagittal plane moment component of the ground reaction force. Here we present a compensation method based on a second-order dynamic model that predicts inertial pitch moment from belt acceleration. The me...

nowadays, consumers demand safe and minimally processed foodstuffs without additives and with extended shelf life. as high-pressure processing is used increasingly for the treatment of packed products, different packagings has been investigated with respect to their structural behaviour and stability under high-pressure processing. various defects may ocuure due to high pressure processing such...

We apply the previously suggested accretion model for the behavior of the super-massive binary system η Carinae close to periastron passages. In that model it is assumed that for ∼ 10 week near periastron passages one star is accreting mass from the slow dense wind blown by the other star. We find that the secondary, the less massive star, accretes ∼ 2 × 10M⊙. This mass posses enough angular mo...

OBJECTIVE To determine which factors contribute to the development of pressure ulcers and to evaluate the role of topical agents in preventing their occurrence. METHOD An observational, prospective survey covered 36 care of the elderly wards and involved 1121 patients at high or very high risk of pressure ulceration. The patients, of whom 667 (59.6%) received a gentle application of a topical...

purpose : fluoroquinolones are widely used antibiotic for prophylaxis of intra and postoperative infections in individuals undergoing cataract surgery. this study was designed to assess the penetration of ciprofloxacin into the ocular aqueous humor (topical only versus topical and oral administration). methods : studied population (n=47) consisted of two groups: group one (n=26) and group two (...

A motorized treadmill often elicits locomotor-like alternate stepping in 7-month-old infants who normally perform few, if any, stepping movements. The step cycle duration is a function of the speed of the treadmill. When infants were held so that each leg was on a separate treadmill belt, each of which was driven at a different speed, the overall cycle duration was intermediate between the cycl...

abstract glaucoma management in pregnant patients is a real challenge, especially when the glaucoma is not controlled with medications. we report the results of 6 incisional glaucoma surgeries for the management of medically uncontrolled glaucoma patients during pregnancy. this retrospective, case series was conducted on the 6 eyes of 3pregnant patients with uncontrolled glaucoma using maximum ...

From the variation of near-Earth interplanetary conditions, reconstructed for the mid-19 century to the present day using historic geomagnetic activity observations, Lockwood and Owens (2014) have suggested that Earth remains within a broadened streamer belt during solar cycles when the Open Solar Flux (OSF) is low. From this they propose that the Earth was immersed in almost constant slow sola...