The purpose of this study was to identify the kinematic and kinetic strategies used by patients with unilateral triple arthrodesis or subtalar fusion during level walking, stair ascent, stair descent and to determine the influence of these different conditions on kinematics and kinetics. Nine subjects with unilateral triple or subtalar fusion and five normal control subjects were recruited for ...

Studies of phase correction in sensorimotor synchronization often introduce timing perturbations that are unpredictable with regard to direction, magnitude, and position in the stimulus sequence. If participants knew any or all of these parameters in advance, would they be able to anticipate perturbations and thus regain synchrony more quickly? In Experiment 1, we asked musically trained partic...

In a general two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM), without the ad hoc discrete symmetries to prevent tree-level flavor-changing-neutral currents, an extra phase angle in the charged-Higgs-fermion coupling is allowed. We show that the charged-Higgs amplitude interferes destructively or constructively with the standard model amplitude depending crucially on this phase angle. The popular model I and II ...

In this paper the Phase-Matching bandwidth, effective nonlinear coefficient and the walk-off angle within the effective bandwidth of the LiGa(SexS1-x)2 biaxial nonlinear crystals are calculated using the Genetic algorithm (GA). This calculation is held for all tree principle XY, YZ and XZ planes individually. The results are shown the accuracy of the applied algorithm is quite qualified.

Melatonin is known to shift the phase of the locomotor activity rhythm in the field mouse Mus booduga in accordance with a type-I phase response curve (PRC), with phase delays during the subjective day and phase advances during late subjective night and the early subjective day. At CT4 (circadian time 4; i.e. 16 hr. after activity onset) and CT22 of the circadian cycle, a single dose of melaton...

Decades of prior study has yet to fully disentangle the complex transport mechanisms that are attributed highly effective heat transfer during boiling. Rational design enhanced surfaces maintain lower surface temperatures boiling requires improved insight into individual processes and their dependence on characteristics. This seeks advance understanding fundamental role wettability plays in det...

OBJECTIVE An open cell stent system may offer better apposition of cell struts to vessel wall than a closed cell stent system in acute vasculature. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of coiling using the jailing technique with the Neuroform EZ stent system. METHODS The jailing technique using the open-cell stent system of the Neuroform EZ stent was planned in 22 consecu...

We report the first detailed optical and electrical characterizations of the nematic (N) phase of a banana liquid crystal, i.e., pretilt angle, and optical and dielectric anisotropies, and point out the difference from those of rodlike molecules. The pretilt angle measurements using a conventional crystal rotation method show that the pretilt angle is very small (less than 1 ) even in cells wit...

The b1icrowave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) launched successfully on June 30, 2001 and is presently in a Lissajous orbit about the Sun-Earth libration point L2. To avoid Earth shadows at L2, the Sun-EarthVehicle (SEV) angle of MAP has to be-greater than 0.5 deg for an extended mission of four years. An equation is derived for the SEV angle in terms of the phase angle, frequencies and amplitudes of th...