Individuals with tetraplegia have loss of motor function in both their upper and lower extremities. Research is being conducted into the development of an exoskeleton to cater for the tetraplegic user. An exoskeleton system has the advantage of assisting disabled or rehabilitating patients without the need of surgery. This paper includes the conceptual design of an upper and lower limb exoskele...

This study evaluated the generalization, maintenance, and negative side-effects of Habit Reversal (HR) and Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviour (DRO) in the elimination of thumb-sucking. Thirty children who sucked their thumbs or fingers excessively were randomly assigned to a HR, DRO or wait-list control group. Observation data were collected in three observation settings. Both proced...

Study Design Systematic review. Clinical Questions (1) When used as an assistive device, do wearable exoskeletons improve lower extremity function or gait compared with knee-ankle-foot orthoses (KAFOs) in patients with complete or incomplete spinal cord injury? (2) When used as a rehabilitation device, do wearable exoskeletons improve lower extremity function or gait compared with other rehabil...

abstract a solitary plasmacytoma of bone occurs in approximately 2-5% of patients with myeloma. the lesion mostly found in the axial skeleton and have infrequently been reported to arise in the hand, and usually occur in the distal phalanges. we report the interesting case of a 75-year-old man who developed a solitary lytic lesion of the thumb proximal phalanx. this lesion was explored through ...

The control objective of exoskeleton for human performance augmentation is to minimize the human machine interaction force while carrying external loads and following human motion. This paper addresses the dynamics and the interaction force control of a 1-DOF hydraulically actuated joint exoskeleton. A spring with unknown stiffness is used to model the humanmachine interface. A cascade force co...

A total of 394 (255 males,139 females) live freshwater crayfish Astacus leptodactylus from four stations of Aras reservoir in West Azarbaijan Province (North-Western Iran) were studied during the winter until early autumn of 2009 for the presence of parasites, Epibionts and Fungal agents. Parasitological surveys were carried out on gills exoskeleton and internal organs, mycological examinations...

To maximize performance and power efficiency, future multi-core architectures may be heterogeneous, incorporating some accelerator cores alongside the IA cores. Accelerator Exoskeletons provide a shared virtual memory heterogeneous multi-threaded programming paradigm for these accelerators using novel CPU instruction set extensions and software tool chains with an Intel Architecture (IA) look-n...

mercury levels in hepatopancreas, muscle and exoskeleton tissues of male and female green tiger prawn, p.semisulcatus, from the persian gulf were compared. significantly higher levels (p

Exoskeleton has been applied in the field of medical rehabilitation and assistance. However, there are still some problems interaction between human exoskeleton, such as time delay, existence certain constraints on body, movement is hard to follow. A motion pattern recognition model based long short-term memory (LSTM) proposed, which can recognise state body. Meanwhile, orthogonalisation method...