background: heat therapy is one of the natural treatments that can affect the information transferred by the proprioceptive receptors. heat has an effect on the conduction velocity of peripheral nerves, but the exact effect of two kinds of deep and superficial heat on the joint position sense is not known clearly. the present study aimed to compare the effect of deep and superficial heat on ank...

This paper demonstrates that a reliable and efficient object recognition system based only on binary joint occurrences of quantized descriptors can be built. Specifically, we show that a high recognition performance can be obtained even with very weak (non discriminative) descriptors. The binary joint occurrence representation despite being high dimensional is very sparse and therefore efficien...

background: temporomandibular joint is one of the most complicated joints of the body and plays an important role in the head and neck system. one of the factors affecting the temporomandibular joint and lead to temporomandibular disorder is anxiety with all the events causing it. the aim of this study was to determine a relationship between anxiety and temporomandibular disorders. materials an...

Good robot performance often relies upon the selection of design parameters that lead to a well conditioned Jacobian or impedance " design " matrix. In this paper, a new design matrix normalization technique is presented to handle the problem of non-homogeneous physical units and to provide a means of specifying a performance based design goal. The technique pre-and post-multiplies a design mat...

Aiming at the fact that psychological state can be reflected by eye movement and pupil size, an affective assessment method based on the joint model of eye movement trajectory and pupil scaling was proposed in this paper. Firstly, the experimental apparatus was developed to capture and transmit the eye images. Secondly, multiple advanced image processing algorithms were synthetically adopted to...

Monte Carlo simulations within the grand canonical ensemble are used to obtain the joint distribution of density and energy fluctuations pL(ρ, u) for two model fluids: a decorated lattice gas and a polymer system. In the near critical region the form of pL(ρ, u) is analysed using a mixed field finite-size-scaling theory that takes account of liquidvapour asymmetry. Field mixing transformations ...

STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of different normalization methods on unilateral seated shot put test results. BACKGROUND The unilateral seated shot put test could assist clinical decision making in upper extremity rehabilitation, but test results must be normalized to compare across patients. The effect of normalization methods based on body size and up...

Purpose: Most studies have examined the effect of stretching and strength exercises on the glenohumeral joint (shoulder joint), on the other hand, due to the importance of the relationship between core stability and pectoral girdle, especially in archery athletes, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of six weeks of core stability exercises on the glenohumeral joint internal rota...