Human footprint fossils have provided essential evidence about the evolution of human bipedalism as well as the social dynamics of the footprint makers, including estimates of speed, sex and group composition. Generally such estimates are made by comparing footprint evidence with modern controls; however, previous studies have not accounted for the variation in footprint dimensions coming from ...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of flat foot in a population of 7-12 year old students and to investigate the relationship between flat foot and age and sex. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 945 students (460 girls and 485 boys) were examined. The presence of flatfoot and the degree of its severity according to Tachdjian's system of grading...

Slippery surfaces are a continuous concern in equine veterinary practice during both treatment and orthopaedic work-ups, especially when horses have to trot on circles. Sliding of the equine foot on the ground with the potential of injury is prevented if the horizontally acting accelerating or decelerating forces on the foot do not exceed maximal friction. Friction can be calculated and therefo...

Childcare in infancy has been proven to significantly reduce the incidence of mental disorders in childhood. Nursery educators must therefore be prepared to keep up with the psychic development of children under their care. The IRDI (Clinical Risk Indicators for Child Development) is a psychoanalytically-based instrument able to point out developmental problems in children from 0-18 months. Thi...

Today’s device drivers are dependent on a given operating system, kernel, or an embedded system platform that provides a higher level of abstraction for its use. We present a USB mass storage device driver that does not depend on any operating system, or kernel, or embedded application. The device driver runs on a bare PC and directly interfaces with an application written in C/C++. The applica...

While decentralization of schooling in Asian developing countries has largely been driven by fiscal constraints, it has also been motivated by concerns about the effectiveness of a centralized system in delivering schooling services. The statistics are revealing about some of these concerns: while virtually all of these countries have made impressive gains in expanding the coverage of primary s...