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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Incline"”.
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System (for) Tracking Equilibrium and Determining Incline (STEADI)
The goal of this project was to design and implement a smartphone-based wearable system to detect fall events in real time. It has the acronym STEADI. Rather than have expensive customised hardware STEADI was implemented in a cost effective manner using a generic mobile computing device. In order …
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Modeling Hydrodynamic Stability of Incline-Liquid Airblast Nozzle for Gas Turbine Combustion
… the onset of instability of liquid sheet at inclined angles relative to the impinging air. In this approach, the instability process is explained by the formation of conical liquid surface at the tip of the nozzle. This liquid surface becomes unstable and ruptures due to instability. …
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Rocking and rolling down an incline : the dynamics of nested cylinders on a ramp
… within a cylindrical shell, rolling down an incline under the influence of gravity. Particular attention is given to rationalizing the distinct modes of motion observed. We performed a series of experiments in which the inner cylinder density and the fluid viscosity were varied. Three …
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Understanding PilB, The Type IV Pilus (T4P) Assembly ATPase
… kinetics profile. The profile has a stepwise incline in ATPase activity as a function of [ATP] that led to a decline in higher [ATP]. The decline was confirmed to be a substrate inhibition by the enzyme-coupled assay. As for the incline, the detailed mechanism is still less clear to explain …
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THE VARIATION IN STRENGTH DECREMENT OF LOWER EXTREMITY MUSCLE GROUPS AND BIOMECHANICAL PLASTICITY IN OLDER ADULTS
… to have increased BP while walking on level and incline surfaces, however individual muscle groups have not yet been evaluated. We hypothesize that one causal factor of BP with age is that hip extensor muscles are more similar in strength in young and old adults than are ankle plantarflexor …
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Race Car Reverse Gear Design
… under varying loads, including the effect of incline angle on terminal velocity and motor current draw. Simulated results show that the system can reliably move the car in reverse on slopes up to 10° before stalling, with current draw remaining within safe operational limits. The mechanical …
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Evaluation of improved stevedore pallet
… test, followed by the rigidity test, the impact-incline deckboard-stringer separation test, and the follow-up static stiff,!'1ess and load-carrying capacity tests. The pallets of improved design were better than those of conventional design during all tests performed. The influence of the nails …
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The influence of body position and user characteristics on peak skin pressure in elite wheelchair racers
… of peak pressure was related to kneeling tray incline (rp =.45, P=.04), duration of disability (rp=-.48, P=.03) and the use of customized equipment (rp =.56, P=.01) in the racing wheelchair. The results of the Spearman rank-order correlation revealed that peak pressure was not significantly …
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Unidirectional inline skates
… The complete 1WSkates allow a user to walk up an incline and roll down the other side, and to use a nordic skiing motion on flat terrain.
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Derivation of an Evolution Equation for Two-Dimensional Waves on Thin Films
… configuration is a thin liquid layer on a planar incline. Following previous studies, the Marangoni effect is incorporated by a constant surface tension gradient and yields a non-convex flux function in our thin film equation. We extend previous studies by deriving the thin film equation governing …
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Improving aviary designs by observing laying hen locomotor development and determining navigational preferences
… and perching events on leveled surfaces than inclined surfaces (ramps/ladders). Elevated surface use began at 8 days of age. Accelerometers showed that birds (10-37 weeks of age) allocated 70%, 22%, and 8% of their time towards moderate-, low-, and high-intensity physical activities, …
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Electronic structure and optical properties of layered ternary transition-metal carbides and nitrides
… stability. While a local maximum or an incline was discovered for Ti3GeC2, Ti2GeC, Ti2SnC, Ti2PC, Nb2AlC, Ta2AlC, Ta4AlC3 and Ta5AlC4, indicating their lower intrinsic structural stability. Inter-band optical conductivities showed anisotropy, but not considerable. The reflectance and …
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Bio-inspired fluid locomotion
… fluid allows Robosnail 2 to climb up a 90 degree incline or inverted 180 degree surfaces. The three-link swimmer is a device composed of three rigid links interconnected by two out-of-phase oscillating joints. It is the first experimental test that successfully demonstrates that a swimmer of its …
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Influence of formal and informal institutions on outsourcing of public construction projects in Uganda.
… embeddedness, the process of outsourcing will incline to formality or informality. In the case of Uganda, findings indicate that the informal institutional regime dominates and no major difference in informal practices for both CG and LG levels exist although at CG level it may appear like …
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Examining physiological roles of adipose derived VEGF: Consequences in substrate availability and endurance exercise capacity in adipocyte specific VEGF deficient mice
… run to exhaustion at 20 m/min, 10-degree incline. Maximal running speed, using incremental increases in speed at 30-second intervals, was tested at 25 weeks of age. Beginning at 6 weeks, and continuing with all time points, endurance run time to exhaustion was 30% lower in adipoVEGF-/- …
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Analysis Of A Dual Scissored-Pair,variable-Speed, Control Moment Gyroscope Driven Spherical Robot
… consumption, translational velocity, maximum incline plane, step size from rest, as well as CMG inertias and geometries. The fourth objective was to perform a series of parametric analysis using the developed equation set to compare barycenter and DSP-VSCMG based designs in a controlled …
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Displacement-based analysis and design of rigid retaining walls during earthquakes
… component of the total displacement. The incline angle at the back of a wall prevented the wall from completely overturning without altering the total displacements. The unit weight of wall material and the friction angle of the backfill had negligible effect on the computed displacements. …
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Pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials
… cob (herbaceous crop).;A combination of reactor incline and shaking speed of 46.7°/180 rpm produced continuous and steady transportation of insoluble substrates through the hollow fibers of polymeric TMR, when no cellulolytic enzymes were added, due probably to the homogenous suspension of …
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Evaluating Late Pleistocene and Holocene Rupture, Seismic Hazards and Ground Motion in the Lake Tahoe Basin
… Point fault, Stateline-North Tahoe fault, and Incline Village fault. Chapter 3 in this study evaluates seismic hazard within the basin as a result of earthquake rupture on the faults identified in the first part of this study. The Ground motions modeled using Nevada ShakeZoning, a physics-based …
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