Background Plantar pressure is highly influenced by many factors such as walking velocity, body weight, and age. The impact of these subject characteristics on plantar pressure is usually studied separately. However, many of these factors are interact with each other; for example walking velocity is negatively correlated with body weight and age. The purpose of this study is to investigate the ...

Light use efficiency (LUE) models are widely used to estimate gross primary productivity (GPP), a dominant component of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Their outputs are very sensitive to LUE. Proper determination of this parameter is a prerequisite for LUE models to simulate GPP at regional and global scales. This study was devoted to investigating the ability of the photochemical reflectance in...

Blood Pressure (BP) dipping is defined as the difference in BP from average waking to sleeping measurement. BP follows normal circadian rhythm of dipping at night at about 10-15% as compared to the day. Night time dipping is further divided into 4 types, reverse dipper (<0%), non-dipper (0-10%), dipper (10-20%) and extreme dipper (>20%). The dip is thought to be affected by an inability to excr...

Technology has had a tremendous impact on our daily lives. Recently, technology and its impact on aging has become an expanding field of inquiry. A major reason for this interest is that the use of technology can help older people who experience deteriorating health to live independently. In this paper we give a brief review of the in-home monitoring technologies for the elderly. In the pilot s...

Instrumentation to collect ISO2631 ride data was installed on a CaseIH 8950 tractor equipped with a central tire inflation system (CTIS). Data were collected at two speeds on three courses representing degraded secondary roads, moderately rough fields, and the toughest of farming conditions. Reductions in tire pressures available with central tire inflation resulted in greater tire deflections ...

High Intraocular Pressure (IOP) for longer period of time may guide the eye to different deceases and Glaucoma is one of them. Continuous, non-invasive and comfortable way of measuring IOP is necessary to detect the high IOP at the very early stage. Few methods are involved widely to measure the IOP in the doctor’s chamber. Some other methods can be used by the person himself but those are stil...

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The influence of climate on arterial blood pressure (BP) has been demonstrated in several studies on hypertensive and normotensive patients of all ages [1-5]. There is a tendency for both systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) to rise in the winter [1-6]. Atmospheric pressure (AP) is the most objective weather factor because, regardless of being indoors or outdoors, it affects all ob...

Editor’s key points † Continuous measurement of beat-to-beat arterial pressure (AP) during the dynamic phases of anaesthesia facilitates recognition and treatment of acute variations. † The non-invasive AP monitor NexfinTM was compared with invasive AP (IAP) measurements during induction of anaesthesia. † NexfinTM reliably and quickly detected acute changes in AP, but its accuracy was insuffici...