Biomimetic swimming devices that employ compliant mechanisms have shown promise as an alternative to current biomimetic design approaches that involve the use of complex mechanisms. The additional stealth, ruggedness, and efficiency of this approach means that such devices could perform important tasks such as reconnaissance and underwater mapping. Many of these applications also require high l...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the influence of compliance with neuromuscular training (NMT) on the knee injury rate in football. AIM To evaluate team and player compliance with an NMT programme in adolescent female football and to study the association between compliance and acute knee injury rates. METHODS Prospective cohort study based on a cluster randomised controlled trial on player...

The paper by van Dongen et al. [1] in this issue is to be commended on many levels. It contributes substantially to the blood donor recruitment and mere-measurement literatures and highlights the importance of replication. Importantly, it opens up the debate on the causes and consequences of non-compliance in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in behav-ioural medicine. Non-compliance introduce...

Historically, business process design has been driven by business objectives, specifically process improvement. However this cannot come at the price of control objectives which stem from various legislative, standard and business partnership sources. Ensuring the compliance to regulations and industrial standards is an increasingly important issue in the design of business processes. In this p...

Flexible robotics are capable of navigating through unstructured environments such as a human body, where it can safely conform around environmental obstacles and constraints due to its compliant body. Because these environmental disturbances can affect the configuration of the robot in an unknown and unpredictable manner, conventional kinematicsand mechanics-based control methods can be inaccu...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (1) To explore the effect of continued nursing intervention on hypertensive patients based on chronotherapeutics. (2) To identify the factors affecting hypertensive patients' compliance to the chronotherapeutics-oriented nursing interventions. BACKGROUND Chronotherapy provides a means of individual treatment for hypertension according to the circadian blood-pressure profil...

Exploiting natural dynamics for bipedal locomotion, or passive walking, is gaining interest because of its energy efficiency. However, the natural trajectories of a passive walker are fixed during the design, thus limiting its mobility. A possible solution to this problem is creating a “semi-passive walker” equipped with actuators with adaptable compliance, which allows the natural dynamics to ...