Risk factors for activity-related tendon disorders of the hand include applied force, duration, and rate of loading. Understanding the relationship between external loading conditions and internal tendon forces can elucidate their role in injury and rehabilitation. The goal of this investigation is to determine whether the rate of force applied at the fingertip affects in vivo forces in the fle...

An interesting feature of the muscular organization of the human hand is that the main flexors and extensors of the fingers are compartmentalized and give rise to multiple parallel tendons that insert onto all the fingers. Previous studies of motor unit synchrony in extensor digitorum (Keen and Fuglevand 2004b) and flexor digitorum profundus (Reilly et al. 2004; Winges and Santello 2004) have i...

molecular taxonomy based on the primary structures of common plant proteins, instead of so-called secondary metabolites. To evaluate the effectiveness of this concept, we carried out a series of studies on the family Solanaceae, using ferredoxin (Fd), an iron-sulfur electron-transfer protein. This protein was chosen for this study because it is easy to isolate and has an appropriate molecular w...

Cosmic ray (CR) diurnal anisotropy and Forbush decreases (FDs), as well the relationship between them, have received considerable study. Several astrophysicists focused on speculated impact of FDs amplitude CR variations different timescales. In an attempt to disentangle contribution FDs, days events are traditionally excluded while calculating in individual neutron monitor (NM) data. But impli...

Modern applications increasingly require the storage of data beyond relational structure. The challenge of providing well-founded data models that can handle complex objects such as lists, sets, multisets, unions and references has not been met yet in a completely satisfactory way. The success of such data models will greatly depend on the existence of automated database design techniques that ...

The decay constants for the D and DS mesons, denoted fD and fDS respectively, are equal in the SU(3)V limit, as are the hadronic amplitudes for BS−BS and B0−B 0 mixing. The leading SU(3)V violating contribution to (fDS/fD) and to the ratio of hadronic matrix elements relevant for BS − BS and B − B 0 mixing amplitudes are calculated in chiral perturbation theory. We discuss the formalism needed ...

Title of Document: Flame Extinction and Air Vitiation Effects In FDS In Poorly Ventilated Compartment Fires Zhixin Hu, Master Thesis, 2005 Directed by: Arnaud Trouvé, Associate Professor Department of Fire Protection Abstract: Compartment fires with different ventilation conditions exhibit different dynamical behaviors, ranging from steady fuel-limited fires to unsteady airlimited fires. Numeri...

Objective: The feeling of disgust for food plays an important role in many situations, especially choice and consumption. Since the is effective events that affect individuals' daily-life, it to understand this emotion food-related behaviours. Recently, a 32-item instrument Food Disgust Scale (FDS) developed validated. This study aims validate FDS first time Turkish population.
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Frequency domain dielectric spectroscopy (FDS) is an effective method reflecting the changes of ageing status silicone oil-immersed insulation paper. For better evaluating paper, evaluation was studied by analysing kinetic model and results FDS. First, to separate different polarization losses conductivity loss from FDS studied. Then, based on idea correction translation coefficient time-varyin...