Rope skipping is an effective way of training. In this study, we concentrated on the rope skipping exercise of using the equipment without a rope which is called “air jump rope”. We have developed a system for recognizing the rotational motion of the rope skipping exercise. The system analyses a motion of jumping rope using the moving image processing using the IR camera of Microsoft Kinect. By...

Nanocomposites made of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) bundles have attracted researchers’ attention due to their unusual properties such as: light weight, flexibility and stiffness.  In this paper, the effects of straight and rope-shaped bundles on nanocomposite effective mechanical properties are investigated.  First, FEA models are created consisting of CNTs with different shapes of straight and rope-...

The application of mussel spat rope for enabling the passage of redfin bully Gobiomorphus huttoni through culverts, which create velocity barriers, was trialled in the laboratory. No fish were able to access the un-roped control pipes whereas 52% successfully negotiated the pipes in the rope treatments. The success of fish ascending treatment pipes suggests mussel spat rope may be effective for...

OBJECTIVE To examine predictors of stroke recurrence in patients with a high vs a low likelihood of having an incidental patent foramen ovale (PFO) as defined by the Risk of Paradoxical Embolism (RoPE) score. METHODS Patients in the RoPE database with cryptogenic stroke (CS) and PFO were classified as having a probable PFO-related stroke (RoPE score of >6, n = 647) and others (RoPE score of ≤...

We design and implement an Android application, “Activity Stalker”, that can recognize and record what activity a person is doing in real time. In particular, the application can automatically distinguish between five activities: standing, walking, running, jumping jacks, and jumping rope. We use various machine-learning models and show that the classification accuracy is quite reasonable, both...

The current specifications governing the construction of wire rope and the fabrication of the assemblies used in movable bridges are no longer the best or most reasonable choice for wire rope selection. The current AASHTO and AREMA specifications for wire rope list “6x19 class improved plow steel wire rope of 6x25 filler wire construction with hard fiber core” as the construction for both opera...

Magnetic clouds (MCs) are a subset of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) characterized primarily by a smooth rotation in the magnetic field direction indicative of the presence of a magnetic flux rope. Energetic particle signatures suggest MC flux ropes remain magnetically connected to the Sun at both ends, leading to widely used model of global MC structure as an extended flux rope,...

Large number of ferrous steel wire ropes is in use in different industries, carrying people and freight, supporting bridges and towers, lifting pipes and vessels offshore and onshore, underground and aboveground. The bigger and the longer is the rope, the more expensive it is. Later or sooner ropes deteriorate for different reasons, their further use may be dangerous, and important question ari...

The goal of modular robots is to achieve versatility in the field, while satisfying any number of traditional robot tasks. We chose the task of traversing terrain by climbing, and present various methods of climbing with modular robots. In particular, we focus on the tasks of climbing across a horizontal rope, climbing up a vertical rope, and climbing up stairs using the Superbot modular robot....