This study investigates the relation between walking speed and the distribution of peak plantar pressure and compares a traditional ten-region subsampling (10RS) technique with a new technique: pedobarographic statistical parametric mapping (pSPM). Adapted from cerebral fMRI methodology, pSPM is a digital image processing technique that registers foot pressure images such that homologous struct...

In the selective withdrawal experiment fluid is withdrawn through a tube with its tip suspended a distance S above an unperturbed two-fluid interface. At low withdrawal rates, Q, the interface forms a steady state hump and only the upper fluid is withdrawn. When Q is increased (or S decreased), the interface undergoes a transition so that the lower fluid is entrained with the upper one, forming...

Diierent instances of a handwritten word consist of the same basic features (humps, cusps, crossings, etc.) arranged in a deformable spatial pattern. Thus, keywords in cursive text can be detected by looking for the appropriate features in the \correct" spatial conng-uration. A keyword can be modeled hierarchically as a set of word fragments, each of which consists of lower-level features. To a...

A scintillation countci' permits the use of very low doses of I-albumin in the recording of radiocardiograms. In the presence of mild heart failure there is a distinct widening of the interval between the humps derived from the right and left heart. Application of the principle of three-compartment serial dilution suggests that this prolongation may be due in large part to reduced cardiac outpu...

Symmetric and asymmetric solitons that form in self-focusing optical waveguides with parity-time (PT )-symmetric double-hump Scarff-II potentials are investigated. It is shown that the branch corresponding to asymmetric solitons bifurcates out from the base branch of PT -symmetric solitons with the increasing of the input power. The stability of symmetric and asymmetric stationary solitons is i...

The value of a self-tuning adaptive semi-active control scheme for automotive suspension systems is discussed in this paper. current vehicle system uses fixed-coeffcient springs and dampers. ability to provide good road handling improve passenger comfort usually valued. Passive allows you choose between these two options. Semi-Active suspension(SAS), on the other hand, can both by manipulating ...

We observed the ROSAT-selected eclipsing dwarf nova GY Cnc (=RX J0909.8+1849) during the 2001 November outburst. We refined the orbital period to be 0.17544251(5) d. The fading portion of the outburst was indistinguishable from those of typical dwarf novae with similar orbital periods. However, the signature of orbital humps (or a hot spot) was far less prominently observed in the orbital light...

Kidney tissue from 97 patients was studied by immunofluorescent techniques using antiserum to purified properdin. All patients with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis showed deposition of properdin and the third component of complement (C3), either as "humps" on the basement membrane, or in the mesangium. In all cases of chronic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, properdin and C3...