Torque teno virus (TTV) is a single-stranded DNA virus highly prevalent in the world. It has been detected in eastern Taiwan indigenes with a low prevalence of 11% by using N22 region of which known to underestimate TTV prevalence excessively. In order to clarify their realistic epidemiology, we re-analyzed TTV prevalence with UTR region. One hundred and forty serum samples from eastern Taiwane...

We investigated lower-extremity isometric tremor Approximate Entropy (irregularity), torque steadiness and rate of force development (RFD) and their associations to muscle activation strategy during isometric knee extensions in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Thirteen male patients with idiopathic PD and 15 neurologically healthy matched controls performed isometric maximal contractions...

Field oriented control (FOC) and direct torque control (DTC), also called vector control, are most famous control methods in high-performance motor applications. If we want to specify the basic handicaps of both methods: the FOC has parameter dependence while the DTC has high torque ripples. This paper proposes a new adaptive bandwidth approach to reduce torque ripples in DTC controlled inducti...

A variety of techniques exist for reducing the cogging torque of conventional radial flux PM machines. This paper presents an application of two cogging torque minimization techniques in which the permanent magnets are skewed in a conventional manner and the stator slots are closed with soft magnetic composite material. The comparative analysis of the different motor designs regarding the coggi...

Torque teno virus (TTV) is a single-stranded DNA virus that has been detected in serum of primate and non-primate species including swine. Little information on swine TTV infection and transmission dynamics is nowadays available. The goal of this study was to gain insight into the potential role of the sow in transmitting TTV to piglets and the infection dynamics of both swine TTV genogroups (T...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the rate of infection caused by Torque teno virus (TTV) in United Arab Emirates (UAEs) healthy population as a pilot study in detecting TTV DNA in 100 healthy blood donors. METHODS We randomly choose a total of 100 healthy blood donors who attended Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE from January 20 to May 30, 2005. We carried out a real-time polymerase chain reac...