This study tested the hypothesis that age-related postural control deficits are more clearly detected from force plate recordings when using postural control tasks with an explicitly defined goal as opposed to the frequently used quiet stance task. Eighteen older adults (over 65) and seventeen younger adults (under 30) stood on a force plate with visual feedback (VFB) of the center of pressure ...

1. Introduction Hf-based materials are good candidates of high-k gate dielec-trics for low power consumption CMOS-LSIs. However, the asymmetric flatband voltage (Vfb) shift has been widely reported at poly-Si/Hf-based systems [1-5]. This phenomenon results in high Vth of FETs and makes the applicability of these gate insu-lators to commercial LSIs difficult. In our previous study, we demonstrat...

Transient capacitances were numerically investigated for Ge/Si heteronanocrystal memories. Flatband voltage shifts Vfb were obtained. The results suggest that the Ge/Si heteronanocrystal memories have significantly longer data retention compared with the memories embedding Si nanocrystals only. It is also found that larger heteronanocrystal leads to longer retention, larger device capacitance, ...

The degradation mechanism of hydrocarbon ion exchange membranes under vanadium flow battery (VFB) medium was investigated and clarified for the first time. This work will be highly beneficial for improving the chemical stability of hydrocarbon ion exchange membranes, which is one of the most challenging issues for VFB application.

The mechanism of flat band voltage (VFB) shift for alternate La2O3/Al2O3 multilayer stack structures in different annealing condition is investigated. The samples were prepared for alternate multilayer structures, which were annealed in different conditions. The capacitance-voltage (C-V) measuring results indicate that the VFB of samples shift negatively for thinner bottom Al2O3 layer, increasi...

A massive effort is underway to map the structure of the Drosophila nervous system and to genetically dissect its function. Virtual Fly Brain (VFB; http://www.virtualflybrain.org) is a popular, OWL-based resource providing neuroinformatics support for this work. It provides: curated descriptions of brain regions and neurons; queries for neurons based on their relationship to gross neuroanatomy;...

When subjects learn a novel motor task, several sources of feedback (proprioceptive, visual or auditory) contribute to the performance. Over the past few years, several studies have investigated the role of visual feedback in motor learning, yet evidence remains conflicting. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate the role of online visual feedback (VFb) on the acquisition and retent...

This paper presents a selected set of concepts of the AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture. Runtime Environment (RTE) and the Virtual Function Bus (VFB) are core parts of the AUTOSAR system design and facilitate relocatability of software components, one of the key features of AUTOSAR. The goal of this paper is to show how the RTE and the VFB work together in order to realizes relocatability and...