Background Walking speed is one of the best measures of overall walking ability. In plantar pressure measurements, walking speed is usually assessed using a stopwatch, photocells, or camera systems. As a simple alternative, contact time can be used but contact time and walking speed are only moderately correlated. Because walking speeds alters foot loading, the centre of pressure might be of mo...

Investigating inter-joint coordination at different walking speeds in young and elderly adults could provide insights to age-related changes in neuromuscular control of gait. We examined effects of walking speed and age on the pattern and variability of inter-joint coordination. Gait analyses of 10 young and 10 elderly adults were performed with different self-selected speeds, including a prefe...

" Please make sure your seat backs are in their full, upright position and that your tray tables are stored. Flight attendants, prepare for take-off…. " What follows is a quick tutorial that walks you through some basic Subversion configuration and operation. When you finish it, you should have a general understanding of Subversion's typical usage. The examples used in this appendix assume that...

in future high-speed self-routing photonic networks based on all-optical time division multiplexing (otdm) it is highly desirable to carry out packet switching, clock recovery and demultplexing in the optical domain in order to avoid the bottleneck due to the optoelectronics conversion. in this paper we propose a self-routing otdm node structure composed of an all-optical router and demultiplex...

various methods for parametric interpolation of nurbs curves have been proposed in the past. however, the errors caused by the approximate nature of the nurbs interpolator were rarely taken into account. this paper proposes an integrated look-ahead algorithm for parametric interpolation along nurbs curves. the algorithm interpolates the sharp corners on the curve with the pythagorean-hodograph ...

In the present paper a model is presented for the dynamic response of a family (Droseraceae) of carnivorous plants such as the Venus Flytrap (Dionaea Muscipulu Ellis) and the Waterwheel Plant (Aldrovanda Vesicuha) to external dynamic disturbances. The goal of the present investigation is to apply such modelling to the molecular design of biomimetic materials with sensors and actuators. In model...