This study examined the effects of 3 lifting ranges and 3 lifting modes on maximum lifting capability and total lifting time. The results demonstrated that the maximum lifting capability for FK (from floor to knuckle height) was greater than that for KS (from knuckle height to shoulder height) or FS (from floor to shoulder height). Additionally, asymmetric lifting with initial trunk rotation de...

Differences in motion patterns subserving the same movement goal can be identified qualitatively. These alternatives, which may characterize 'movement techniques' (e.g., the stoop and the squat lifting technique), may be associated with significantly different biomechanical constraints and physiological responses. Despite the widely shared understanding of the significance of alternative moveme...

This study examines the feasibility of indirect solar desalination in oil producing countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It relies on value engineering (VE) and costbenefit with sensitivity analyses to identify optimal coupling configurations of desalination and solar energy technologies. A comparative return on investment was assessed as a function of water costs for va...

Multirate systems are encountered when some signals of interest are sampled at a di erent rate than others. For example, in the process industry, composition measurements in distillation columns are typically sampled at a slower rate than temperatures and ow rates. In the context of closed-loop control, such multirate systems pose a challenging problem due to several reasons such as increased c...

this study involved 154 anesthetized patients requiring endotracheal intubation, in whom the epiglottis was visible but not lifted, which restricted the view of the glottis. a simple stylet was used to lift the epiglottis, thus improving the view of the glottis with the glide scope®, allowing tracheal tubes to be inserted into the patients. the stylet easily resolved the difficulty of lifting t...

This thesis addresses the problem of stereo image coding for storage and transmission purposes. In particular, we are interested in lossy-to-lossless coding schemes allowing progressive reconstruction. In the first part, we propose novel coding methods based on Vector Lifting Schemes. Unlike conventional approaches which encode a reference image, a residual one and a disparity map, the proposed...

BACKGROUND Although acupuncture manipulation has been regarded as one of the important factors in clinical outcome, it has been difficult to train novice students to become skillful experts due to a lack of adequate educational program and tools. OBJECTIVES In the present study, we investigated whether newly developed phantom acupoint tools would be useful to practice-naïve acupuncture studen...

Lifting modules and their various generalizations as some main concepts in module theory have been studied and investigated extensively in recent decades. Some authors tried to present some homological aspects of lifting modules and -supplemented modules. In this work, we shall present a homological approach to -supplemented modules via fully invariant submodules. Lifting modules and H-suppleme...

We start by introducing a notion of hybrid automata with a clear identiication of the signature component. Hybrid automata intermix discrete and continuous behavior, extending non-deterministic automata with attributes that evolve continuously with time according to evolution laws. Adopting a categorial approach to aggregating and interconnecting hybrid automata we look at a suitable deenition ...