نتایج جستجو برای: stiffness control

تعداد نتایج: 1366694  

2014
YONGPING LU JIA WEI YUEYUE TANG YUAN YUAN YANLING HUANG YONG ZHANG YUNYAN LI

The aim of the present study was to detect the elastic modulus (stiffness) of the livers of rabbits with non-alcoholic and alcoholic fatty liver disease using real-time shear wave elastography (SWE), and to investigate the fibrosis development process in the formation of fatty liver. The stiffness of the fatty livers in rabbit models prepared via feeding with alcohol or a high-fat diet were mea...

Journal: :Journal of neurophysiology 2007
Mohammad Darainy Farzad Towhidkhah David J Ostry

It is known that humans can modify the impedance of the musculoskeletal periphery, but the extent of this modification is uncertain. Previous studies on impedance control under static conditions indicate a limited ability to modify impedance, whereas studies of impedance control during reaching in unstable environments suggest a greater range of impedance modification. As a first step in accoun...

2016
Thales R. Souza Vanessa L. Araújo Paula L. Silva Viviane O. C. Carvalhais Renan A. Resende Sérgio T. Fonseca

Background Reducing rearfoot eversion is a commonly desired effect in clinical practice to prevent or treat musculoskeletal dysfunction. Interventions that pull the lower limb into external rotation may reduce rearfoot eversion. Objective This study investigated whether the use of external rotation elastic bands, of different levels of stiffness, will decrease rearfoot eversion during walking...

2016
Nan Jiang Shuaishuai Sun Yiming Ouyang Yang Yu Yancheng Li Jianchun Li Jie Fu Guanyao Liao Miao Yu Lujie Zhao Kyu-Jin Cho M D Christie S S Sun D H Ning H Du S W Zhang W H Li

Serving to improve stability and energy efficiency during locomotion, in nature, animals modulate their leg stiffness to adapt to their terrain. Now incorporated into many locomotive robot designs, such compliance control can enable disturbance rejection and improved transition between changing ground conditions. This paper presents a novel design of a variable stiffness leg utilizing a magneto...

2017
Wanda R. P. Lopes-Vicente Sara Rodrigues Felipe X. Cepeda Camila Paixão Jordão Valéria Costa-Hong Akothirene C. B. Dutra-Marques Jefferson C. Carvalho Maria Janieire N. N. Alves Luiz A. Bortolotto Ivani C. Trombetta

BACKGROUND Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with structural and functional vascular abnormalities, which may lead to increased arterial stiffness, more frequent cardiovascular events and higher mortality. However, the role played by clustering of risk factors and the combining pattern of MetS risk factors and their association with the arterial stiffness have yet to be fully understood. ...

Journal: :Journal of athletic training 2008
J Troy Blackburn Darin A Padua Kevin M Guskiewicz

CONTEXT Greater musculotendinous stiffness may enhance spinal stretch reflex sensitivity by improving mechanical coupling of the muscle spindle and the stretch stimulus. This heightened sensitivity would correspond with a shorter latency and higher-amplitude reflex response, potentially enhancing joint stability. OBJECTIVE To compare spinal stretch reflex latency and amplitude across groups t...

2010
Hamdy Sliem Gamela Nasr

INTRODUCTION Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic, inflammatory disease, which is associated with an excess of cardiovascular events. A decrease in the compliance of the arterial system, termed arterial stiffness, results in increased cardiac workload. Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a priority for modern medicine. Therefore, further studies are required to exp...

Journal: :Progress in biophysics and molecular biology 2010
Yongdong Feng Gidon Ofek Dong Soon Choi Jianguo Wen Jerry Hu Hong Zhao Youli Zu Kyriacos A Athanasiou Chung-Che Chang

We observed that BMSCs (bone marrow stromal cells) from myeloma patients (myeloma BMSCs) were significantly stiffer than control BMSCs using a cytocompression device. The stiffness of myeloma BMSCs and control BMSCs was further increased upon priming by myeloma cells. Additionally, myeloma cells became stiffer when primed by myeloma BMSCs. The focal adhesion kinase activity of myeloma cells was...

2014
Victoria A. Webster Ronald Leibach Alexander Jacob Hunt Richard J. Bachmann Roger D. Quinn

TCERA (Tunable Compliance Energy Return Actuator) is a robotic actuator inspired by properties and behavior of the human knee joint, in that it utilizes antagonistic contraction to vary torsional stiffness and joint angle. The actuator is an electrically activated artificial muscle which uses two constant air-mass pneumatic springs configured antagonistically about the knee joint. The positions...

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