A 33-year-old male soccer player started to experience chest discomfort briefly after taking a blow from an opponent’s knee into his chest during a dribbling maneuver on the pitch. He completed the game but then consulted a referring hospital because of waxing and waning chest complaints irradiating to his left arm. The ECG demonstrated ST-T–segment changes compatible with inferoposterior ische...

Rare cases of tuberculous urinary tract or genital infection caused by intravesical Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) instillation therapy have been reported. We encountered a patient with tuberculous granuloma in the scrotal skin after intravesical BCG therapy for bladder cancer. There was evidence of infection in the scrotal skin, but not in the epididymis. To the best of our knowle...

Ball dribbling is a central element of basketball. One main challenge for realizing basketball robots is to stabilize periodic motion of the ball. The task is nontrivial due to the discrete-continuous nature of the corresponding dynamics. This paper proposes to add an elastic element to the manipulator so the ball can be controlled in a continuous-time phase instead of an intermittent contact. ...

History and Physical Findings The dog had acute pain in the hind quarters and a mild lameness in the right hind leg for 48 h. When examined, there was loss of conscious proprioception, paralysis, and hyperreflexia of both hind legs, with loss of superficial and retention of deep pain. The panniculus reflex was absent at approximately the tenth thoracic vertebra (T10). There was some ataxia pres...

RoboCup soccer is still host to frequent collisions between robots that lead to unsavory gameplan that is typically not allowed in human soccer. In the Standard Platform league where ultrasonic sensors are employed, these collisions are forbidden, but there is still leniency in the Humanoid League. Additionally, advanced behaviors, such as dribbling, require robust obstacle avoidance strategies...

This paper describes the University of Queensland’s robot soccer team, the RoboRoos, that placed second at RoboCup 2003. This paper describes the mechanical systems, including the omni-directional drive system, the crossbow kicker and the dribbling mechanism, and briefly describes the electrical and electronic systems. The paper explains the new software systems of the RoboRoos, which were the ...

Simulation system is charged with the strategy validation and dual team meets, and as the 2dimensional simulation platform for underwater robotic fish game, URWPGSim2D is the assigned platform for Chinese underwater robot contest and Robot cup underwater program. By now on URWPGSim2D, there is only static obstacles, thus short of changeableness. In order to improve the changeableness and innova...

This paper describes the design, realization and testing of an active ball handling mechanism which is designed for dribbling the ball in the RoboCup Middle Size League used by our team NuBot. First, a virtual model of the simplified ball handling mechanism is derived. Afterwards, a control system including a feedback controller and a feedforward controller is designed and developed step by ste...

A study was undertaken at Kurukshetra University (Haryana) with an aim to assess the influence of circuit training Basketball skills and physical fitness variables female players. The discovered that one month programme had a positive significant effect on ( accuracy level, dribbling ability, field goal speed) (speed, strength agility) Whereas no flexibility found.