This study quantified the systematic effects on wrist joint mechanics of changes in amplitude of displacement ranging from within the region of short-range stiffness (0.2% of resting muscle length) up to 3% of resting muscle length. The joint mechanics were modelled using a second-order system from which estimates of joint stiffness, viscosity, inertia, natural resonant frequency and damping ra...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to access Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in preschool cancer survivors during the first 3 years of continuous remission after the end of successful treatment, and to identify predictors of HRQoL. PROCEDURE Parent-reported HRQoL was assessed in 53 preschool children treated successfully for cancer, using the TAPQOL and compared with norm data. Longit...

Online discussions are growing as a popular, effective and reliable source of information for users because of their liveliness, flexibility and up-to-date information. Online discussions are usually developed and advanced by groups of users with various backgrounds and intents. However because of the diversities in topics and issues discussed by the users, supervised methods are not able to ac...

Wireless Sensor Networks consists of no. of micro sensor nodes to monitor a remote environment by using aggregated data from individual nodes and transfer this data to the base station for further purpose. Here the energy of operated nodes is susceptible store of the Wireless Sensor Network, which is useless at a rate when information is transmitted, because transmission energy is reliant on th...

We propose a novel three-layered neural network-based architecture for predicting the Sixteen Personality Factors from facial features analyzed using Facial Action Coding System. The proposed architecture is built on three layers: a base layer where the facial features are extracted from each video frame using a multi-state face model and the intensity levels of 27 Action Units (AUs) are comput...

Plants perform their own interests and purposes. in ways that afford invite specific human experiences. also complex biopolitical roles. With these multivalent understandings of plant performance mind, this introduction to the “Plant Performance” issue Performance Philosophy outlines editors’ broadly feminist approach challenges facing scholars artists field Critical Plant Studies. We present c...

Divina Commedia represents Dante’s most famous work: even if many centuries have passed, it still universal knowledge. Today comics are perceived as consumer literature, however over time there been works that reinterpreted in various ways Commedia. Various reinterpretations conducted using interwined and different languages. Reinterpretations accompany Dante's world today's world.
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Different community groups and members hold varying power positions in tourism development discussions decision-making. From the sustainable perspective, planning management should involve a diversity of voices, including also those with limited political or economic power. This article focuses on relatively little studied young people’s views development. The uses concept social innovation for...