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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Stability Test"”.
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Test-Re-test Reliability of Sahrmann Lower Abdominal Core Stability Test for DII Baseball Athletes
… from the hips to the throwing arm, but maintains stability and can decrease injury rates. There are several tests represented in the literature to measure core stability, but none have been advocated to use for baseball. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of the …
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Stability and robustness analysis tools for marine robot localization and mapping applications
… of this analysis is to explore the fundamental stability issues of a robotic vehicle carrying out localization, mapping, and feedback control in a perturbation-filled environment. Motivated by the application of an ocean vehicle performing an autonomous ship hull inspection, a planar vehicle …
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Development of collagen-based scaffolds for differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells
… to form an interpenetrating network (IPN). Stability test showed significant improvement of shrinkage resistance compared to pure collagen hydrogel. Assessment of biocompatibility showed high cell viability throughout the stem cell differentiation period tested. Quantitative real-time …
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Analysing the relationship between real exchange rate misalignment and capital flow in Namibia
… time-series techniques such as the unit root test, autoregressive distributed lag bound test to co-integration, error correction modelling approach, diagnostic and stability test. The inflexion point of misalignment was also used to find the effects of real exchange rate misalignment on …
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The Use of Computerized Dynamic Posturography to Assess the Balance in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease
Postural instability is one of the hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD), currently evaluated using several subjective tools. However, the nature and degree of the resulting balance deficit is not well specified by these tools. Computerized dynamic posturography (CDP) provides an objective …
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Modeling and Analysis of a Dc Power Distribution System in 21st Century Airlifters
… were obtained from the nonlinear PDS model for stability analysis and control design. The PDS model was used to examine the system stability and the DC bus power quality under bidirectional power flow conditions. Small-signal analysis techniques were employed to study stability issues resulting …
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Household Waste Management Practices in a Selected Community under Makhado Municipality, Vhembe District of Limpopo Province
… The researcher ensured reliability by using a stability test-retest. For the purpose of this research, the following ethical considerations were considered: Informed consent, confidentiality, avoidance of harm, maintaining human dignity, and voluntary participation for validity, the researcher …
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Energy methods for lossless systems using quadratic differential forms
… We show that our definition has applications in stability tests for linear systems, and we also give a new Routh-Hurwitz like stability test.
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Effectiveness of a Shoulder Strengthening Intervention on the Incidence Rate of Glenohumeral Joint Instability Injuries
… The CKCUEST has been shown to be an effective test for assessing the dynamic stability of the glenohumeral joint. <strong><br />Objective:</strong> The purpose of this study is to determine if identifying and treating players can decrease the incidence of shoulder injuries in collegiate …
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Rapid quantification of trypsin inhibitors in food and feed formulations with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
… (AACC). The second part discusses on the test methods and specifications of unused natural ester oils developed for transformers and similar electrical equipment. Because of lack of internationally recognized test methods to study oxidation stability of natural ester oils for use in …
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Study of TaC Supported Ir-Based Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts Synthesized by Surfactant-Mediated Method
… and unmilled TaC. The long term electrochemical stability of the ball-milled TaC was evaluated under OER conditions. The ball-milled TaC was found to be a promising support for OER electrocatalysts in order to reduce the loading of precious metal. Unsupported and TaC supported Iridium-based …
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Functional comparison of soy protein isolate and sodium caseinate in stabilized fat mixtures
… no fat or water cookout resulted when a stability test of the final mixture was performed. A comparison of the physical characteristics of both the caseinate and soy isolate stabilized fat mixtures was used to speculate concerning the stabilizing structure of the fat mixtures;When added …
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The Interrater and Intrarater Reliability of the Balance Error Scoring System in Acutely Concussed Individuals
… System (BESS) is the recommended postural stability test and is the most commonly utilized test by Certified Athletic Trainers (ATC). The reliability of BESS ranges from poor (0.80) in healthy, non-injured individuals but has yet to be assessed in acutely concussed individuals. Furthermore, …
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Parametric dependencies of aeroengine flutter for flutter clearance applications
… operational parameters upon aeroengine flutter stability. The study is composed of three parts: theoretical development of relevant parameters, exploration of a computational model, and analysis of fully scaled test data. Results from these studies are used to develop a rational flutter …
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Study of Perovskite Structure Cathode Materials and Protective Coatings on Interconnect for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
… which means the BSCF cathode is preferred. The stability test shows that the BSCF-based single cell is more stable at lower operative temperature (600 °C) while the LSCF-based single cell is more stable at higher operative temperature (800 °C).
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Investigation of gold nanorods as a sensing material in plasmonic sensor for triclopyr butotyl detection
… butotyl (Cଵଷ HଵClଷNOସ). The sensitivity, stability and repeatability of GNRs in deionized water and triclopyr butotyl medium is studied by observing the changes in the absorption intensity and the peak position of the plasmon resonance. The optical response of 10 % triclopyr butotyl …
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Palm oil shell aggregate as cool pavement by replacing fine aggregate
… are considered high in NIR reflective agent. All tested samples met the minimum requirement for Marshall stability test. All modified pavement exhibits different performances thus the least susceptibility for modified mixture in resilient modulus is P10 sample. Furthermore, results for dynamic …
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From Road to Laboratory: A Data-Driven Framework for Field-Aligned Simulation of Braking Dynamics Toward Sustainable Unit Load Packaging
… targets. However, existing laboratory test methods for evaluating unit load stability still fall short of replicating the dynamic forces that occur during freight transportation. This study addressed that gap with an overarching objective to advance performance based and resource …
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SYNTHESIS OF PERFLUOROHETEROAROMATIC POLYMERS FOR ION-CONDUCTING MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS VIA FREE RADICAL-BASED REACTIONS AND SYNTHESIS OF DI-CATIONIC IONIC LIQUIDS AS EFFICIENT SO2 ABSORBENTS
… PFTFAn membrane displayed better chemical stability and mechanical properties than NafionTM due to the removal of –SO3H groups. The second part of this thesis deals with fluoropolymer-based anion-exchange membranes. A new class of coordinated metal/perfluoropolymer type composite membranes …
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Soluble carbohydrates in soybean - discovery of novel genetic resources and evaluation of known mutations
… and stachyose (RFOs) create unpleasant intestinal conditions and reduce feed efficiency in non-ruminant animals. Therefore, this research focused on three main topics, including i) the identification of novel genetic resources for high sucrose and low stachyose content via genome-wide …
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