This study investigated the effect of both walking speed and external ankle load on the kinetic patterns of treadmill walking in preadolescents with and without Down syndrome (DS). Ten preadolescents with DS and ten age- and gender-matched children with typical development (TD) participated in this study. We manipulated two treadmill speeds and two external ankle loads. Treadmill speeds were eq...

The basic competence a translation education program aims at providing the students with is that of competence. Most studies scholars working in field have declared four competences to be among indispensable sub “translation competence”; namely, cultural competence, critical reading linguistic and thinking One most effective ways getting acquire these including literature courses curricula. Whe...

CONTEXT Injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) occur because of excessive loading on the knee. ACL injury prevention programs can influence sagittal plane ACL loading factors and vertical ground reaction force (VGRF). OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of ACL injury prevention programs on sagittal plane knee biomechanics (anterior tibial shear force, knee flexion angle/moments) an...

The symmetry of floating drops is considered. Under conditions that the free boundary is flat it is shown that all three component interfaces are symmetric about a vertical line.

We have developed a suite of real-time precise point positioning programs to process GPS pseudorange observables, and validated their performance through static and kinematic positioning tests. To correct inaccurate broadcast orbits and clocks, and account for signal delays occurring from the ionosphere and troposphere, we applied State Space Representation (SSR) error corrections provided by t...

Integrated care is provided by professionals with different disciplines, competencies and degree of specialization with the first objective to promote cooperation and with a final objective to promote quality and efficiency of care. Following the degree of integration four models can be distinguished: no integration, linkage, coordination and full integration. An optimal degree exists for integ...

BACKGROUND Increasingly, multiple intervention programming is being understood and implemented as a key approach to developing public health initiatives and strategies. Using socio-ecological and population health perspectives, multiple intervention programming approaches are aimed at providing coordinated and strategic comprehensive programs operating over system levels and across sectors, all...

We consider a generalization of the SPMD programming model to orthogonal processor groups. In this model different partitions of the processors into disjoint processor groups can be exploited in a single parallel implementation. The parallel programming model is appropriate for grid based applications with computations and dependence pattern mainly aligned in horizontal or vertical directions. ...

This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchannan's "Liviathan" hypothesis, here the emphasis is placed on a different channel: the potential for decentralization to aggravate the common pool problem. In addition to the degree of expenditure decentralization, we consider the importanc...