In this study, an optimization-based approach for simulating the lifting motion of a three dimensional digital human model is presented. Lifting motion is generated by minimizing a performance measure subjected to basic physical and kinematical constraints. Two performance measures are investigated: one is the dynamic effort; the other is the compression and shear forces on the lumbar joint. Th...

The recently proposed Chebyshev-like lifting map for the zeros of a uni-variate polynomial was motivated by its applications to splitting a univariate polynomial p(x) numerically into factors, which is a major step of some most eeective algorithms for approximating polynomial zeros. We complement the Chebyshev-like lifting process by a descending process, decrease the estimated computational co...

This article addresses the empirical and theoretical bases for recommendations regarding lifting technique. Current knowledge regarding the potential mechanisms of injury due during lifting is reviewed. Lifting from postures involving extreme lumbar vertebral flexion, (approximately 60 degrees of lumbar flexion, characterised by absence of electromyographical activity in erector spinae) has the...

Lifting operators play an important role in starting a lattice Boltzmann model from a given initial density. The density, a macroscopic variable, needs to be mapped to the distribution functions, mesoscopic variables, of the lattice Boltzmann model. Several methods proposed as lifting operators have been tested and discussed in the literature. The most famous methods are an analytically found l...

Ramesh Neelamani December 23, 1998 Project Advisor: Prof. C.S. Burrus ELEC 696 Project Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005. [email protected] Abstract Lifting has traditionally been described in the time/spatial domain and the intuition behind the entire scheme holds in this domain. It is known that the lifting scheme, as conventionally desc...

Introduction: In order to achieve a higher success rate for tympanoplasty, different techniques have been developed, and a wide variety of grafting materials have been developed. One of the techniques currently receiving considerable attention involves not lifting the remaining of eardrum from the malleus and embedding the graft underneath in order to repair the eardrum correctly in its origina...

Fast lifting wavelet transform is a technique which replaces standard discrete wavelet transform used in computation of wavelet coefficients. The idea of lifting comes from the lifting scheme, a method used in wavelet design. The standard method relies on convolution of the original signal with FIR filter structures. Fast lifting scheme basically breaks up the original filters into a series of ...

We introduce the notion of an equational lifting monad: a commutative strong monad satisfying one additional equation (valid for monads arising from partial map classifiers). We prove that any equational lifting monad has a representation by a partial map classifier such that the Kleisli category of the former fully embeds in the partial category of the latter. Thus equational lifting monads pr...

BACKGROUND In this study, kinematics and kinetics of the lower extremity joint and the lumbar lordosis during two different symmetrical lifting techniques(squat and stoop) were examined using the three-dimensional motion analysis. METHODS Twenty-six young male volunteers were selected for the subjects in this study. While they lifted boxes weighing 5, 10 and 15 kg by both squat and stoop lift...