INTRODUCTION OpenSim is an open-source musculoskeletal modeling program that uses computed muscle control (CMC) to estimate muscle excitation patterns during a particular task [1,2]. CMC determines the excitations by minimizing the weighted sum of muscle forces while reproducing the desired kinematics. With this approach, estimates of muscle excitations in populations with known muscle activati...

Abstract. Let Mn be the set of equivariant unoriented cobordism classes of all ndimensional 2-torus manifolds, where an n-dimensional 2-torus manifold M is a smooth closed manifold of dimension n with effective smooth action of a rank n 2-torus group (Z2) . Then Mn forms an abelian group with respect to disjoint union. This paper determines the group structure of Mn and shows that each class of...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Until recently, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) adults were excluded from full participation in civil marriage. The purpose of this study is to examine how legal marriage and relationship status are associated with health-promoting and at-risk factors, health, and quality of life of LGBT adults aged 50 and older. DESIGN AND METHODS We utilized weighted surv...

Article history: Received 26 January 2014 Received in revised form 17 March 2015 Accepted 3 May 2015 Available online 9 June 2015 The increasing competition in knowledge-intensive economy has made it even more important for technological companies to understand what determines employee creativity since it is a major source for corporate innovation. Research has indicated that individual attribu...

Mesh-based Peer-to-Peer streaming (MPS) mechanisms incorporate swarming content delivery and thus are able to support scalable streaming of live content. Their key component is a packet scheduling scheme at each peer that determines pulled packet from neighbors while accommodating in-time arrival and diversity of delivered packets. Besides packet scheduling scheme, the overall performance of a ...

Abstract. This paper is concerned with the summarization of a set of categorical sequences. More specifically, the problem studied is the determination of the smallest possible number of representative sequences that ensure a given coverage of the whole set, i.e. that have together a given percentage of sequences in their neighbourhood. The proposed heuristic for extracting the representative s...

We present a fast and flexible program for clustering large protein databases at different sequence identity levels. It takes less than 2 h for the all-against-all sequence comparison and clustering of the non-redundant protein database of over 560,000 sequences on a high-end PC. The output database, including only the representative sequences, can be used for more efficient and sensitive datab...

Aim: To assess the bacteriological quality of ice creams marketed in Thrissur town, Kerala. Materials and Methods: Twenty seven ice cream samples randomly collected from selected retail outlets and street vendors in the town over a period of two months were analyzed for total viable count and for the presence of coliforms, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella spp. and Listeria mo...