Incontinentia pigmenti (IP) is an uncommon X-linked dominant multisystem disorder, lethal in the majority of affected males in utero and variably expressed in females. The cutaneous manifestations are diagnostic and classically occur in four stages: vesicular, verrucous, hyperpigmented, and atrophic. The skin lesions are typically spread along the lines of Blaschko, and they are usually present...

the joints between segmental rings can withstand a certain amount of bending moment as well as axial and shear forces. generally, in the structural analysis of tunnel segmental lining, the joints can be modeled as elastic hinges or rotational springs, and their rigidity should be demonstrated in terms of the rigidity of the joints or their rotational stiffness. therefore, the bending moment act...

This paper illustrates the design and implementation of a robotic software system based on robot-human interactions, which increases the applications of low-cost, inaccurate robots such as Baxter. The first four parts of the paper discuss the motivation, market & industry, IP strategy and system workflow. Then the paper explains a specific technical contribution of the project in detail – estim...

We set limits on the configuration space of the pose parameters in order to automatically generate realistic hand poses using our 3D synthetic hand model. This ensures natural hand configurations mimicking real hand gestures. A comprehensive study on the functional ranges of joint movement is conducted in [3] and [2]. We employ the Type I and II constraints articulated in these papers on our ki...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Norfolk Arthritis Register Damaged Joint Count (NOAR-DJC) in patients with early inflammatory polyarthritis (IP). METHODS The NOAR-DJC examines deformity in 51 joints. Deformity is defined as inability to adopt the anatomical position, reduction in range of movement by at least one-third, and/or surgical alteration of the joint. Relia...

Understanding of biomechanics is important in performance development since each skill has a fundamental mechanical structure. The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in lower limb kinematics during table tennis forehand loop between superior players (SP) and intermediate players (IP). Thirteen male players as superior and thirteen as intermediate participated in this test. A V...