Olympic archers use different hook techniques like upper and lower two-finger hook. So, the purpose of this study is to compare three different hook techniques in archery by using kinetic and kinematic methods. A high level archer (FITA scores > 1300) volunteered to participate in this study. The subject engaged in a single test session consisting of 6 shots. Nine forearm and shoulder girdle mu...

BACKGROUND Post-copulatory sexual selection has been shown to shape morphology of male gametes. Both directional and stabilizing selection on sperm phenotype have been documented in vertebrates in response to sexual promiscuity. METHODOLOGY Here we investigated the degree of variance in apical hook length and tail length in six taxa of murine rodents. CONCLUSIONS Tail sperm length and apica...

During the operation of a crawler crane driven by double winches, it is important to make the two winches actuate synchronously so that the hook is in a horizontal state to prevent accidents. In this paper, a novel synchronization control strategy for crawler crane driven by double winches using hook angle feedback information is proposed. The hook angle proportional to the length error of rope...

Recently, the first author has studied hook length formulas for partitions in a systematic manner. In the present paper we show that most of those hook length formulas can be generalized and include more variables via the Littlewood decomposition, which maps each partition to its t-core and t-quotient. In the case t = 2 we obtain new formulas by combining the hook lengths and BG-ranks introduce...

BACKGROUND Carinal hooks increases difficulty at endotracheal intubation. Amputation of the carinal hook during passage and malpositioning of the tube to the hook are some of the potential problems related with left-sided Carlens double lumen tube (DLT). This article reports an amputation of the hook during a difficult selective intubation and aimed at calling the attention to complications ass...

To solve the problem of information acquisition of an industrial overhead crane, this paper uses an industrial camera to get the information. The information includes the height and the swing angle of the hook and the distance between the hook and the cargo. To obtain the real-time data of the hook’s height and swing angle, firstly the whole image captured by the industrial camera is processed ...

Across bacteria, the protein that makes the flagellar hook, FlgE, has a high variability in amino acid residue composition and sequence length. We hereby present the structure of two fragments of FlgE protein from Campylobacter jejuni and from Caulobacter crescentus, which were obtained by X-ray crystallography, and a high-resolution model of the hook from Caulobacter. By comparing these new st...

Importance. Ocular penetrating fish-hook injuries represent an unusual and very dangerous ocular trauma. We report the management of an unusual case of a simple-single barbed fish-hook accident globe injury successfully treated with surgery. Observations. We described a case report of a caucasian 32-year-old man presented with a scleral perforation of the left eye caused by a fish-hook injury w...

Phototropic and gravitropic curvature by hypocotyls of Arabidopsis thaliana is minimal when the side of the hook with the cotyledons attached is positioned toward the direction of tropistic curvature, and maximal when that side of the hook is positioned away from the direction of tropistic curvature. Based on these data, it is proposed that the position of the hook with attached cotyledons aff...

Automatic detection of severe weather events is of great interest to meteorologists. In this paper, we describe and evaluate a method to identify hook echoes automatically in radar reflectivity data. The method is based on the skeletonization of 2D shapes which are used to describe the shape of storms. We use 4 skeleton shape features: curvature, curve orientation, thickness variation and bound...