This paper presents a computer-vision based marker-free method for gait-impairment detection in Patients with Parkinson's disease (PWP). The system is based upon the idea that a normal human body attains equilibrium during the gait by aligning the body posture with Axis-of-Gravity (AOG) using feet as the base of support. In contrast, PWP appear to be falling forward as they are less-able to ali...

Effects of cropping practices on soil properties viz. particle size distribution, pH, bulk density (BD), field capacity (FC, -33 kPa), permanent wilting point (PWP, -1500 kPa), available water capacity (AWC) and soil organic carbon (SOC) were assessed. The pedotransfer functions (PTFs) were developed for saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks), water retention at FC and PWP of soils for different...

Let p be a prime. In this note we make explicit some results on the canonical subgroup of an elliptic curve E over the ring of integers Rp of Cp implicit in [K-pPMF]. In particular, if ω generates Ω1E/Rp and E has a canonical subgroup CE , knowlege of the Hasse invariant of the reduction of (E,ω) modulo p is equivalent to knowledge of the pair (CE , ω|CE). 1. Group Schemes of order p. Let μ den...

This study was undertaken to develop new pedotransfer functions (PTFs) for the estimation of soil moisture content at field capacity (FC, −33 kPa) and permanent wilting point (PWP, −1500 South African soils based on easily measurable physico-chemical properties. The PTFs were developed using stepwise multiple linear regressions with dependent variable (either FC or PWP) against clay, silt, sand...

Satellite remote sensing is an indispensable means of measuring and monitoring precipitation on a global scale. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is continuing to make significant progress in helping the global features of precipitation to be understood, particularly with the help of a pair of spaceborne microwave sensors, the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) and precipitation radar (PR...

In this viewpoint, we discuss how several aspects of Parkinson's disease (PD) - known to be correlated with wellbeing and health-related quality of life-could be measured using wearable devices ('wearables'). Moreover, three people with PD (PwP) having exhaustive experience with using such devices write about their personal understanding of wellbeing and health-related quality of life, building...

The optimum condition for the protoplast formation and regeneration of S(yeptomyces Laurentii ATCC 31255 was studied. The effective formation and regeneration of protoplasts were obtained by using the mycelia grown to the stationary phase in the presence of 0.4% glycine, and by treatment with 1 mg/ml of lysozyme in PWP buffer. When plasmids, pMCP5 and its derivative pYK3 (smaller in size) havin...