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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"balance performance"”.
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Balance Performance in Adolescents Following a Concussion
… physical consequences of concussion are balance deficits which affect approximately one in three cases. Balance is essential to perform many postures and activities and therefore it is important to accurately identify these deficits at the time of injury and during the recovery process in …
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Balance Performance Measurment in a Phase Shifted Feedback Environment
… technologies for the objective assessment of balance exist in clinical settings. Training requires integration of sensory information to produce a coordinated motor response related to balance. These systems have had measurable phase delays of up to 250ms in the visual feedback provided to the …
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Quantifying Human Balance Performance and Control to Inform Therapy
Maintaining balance is essential for daily activities and overall health. However, balance capability often declines with age or due to health conditions such as stroke, increasing fall risk. Falls among older adults are a major public health concern, affecting 14 million older adults annually in …
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The effects of social-comparative feedback on corticospinal excitability and balance performance.
… feedback informs individuals about their performance relative to a falsified group score. Providing positive (“performed better than the group”) social-comparative feedback enhances motivation, self-efficacy and balance performance, while negative (“worse than the group”) …
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Balance performance in people with Parkinson’s disease. Effects of subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation.
… in the subthalamic nuclei (STN) affected balance, fear of falling and falls in people with Parkinson's disease. The effect of STN stimulation alone was investigated in Papers I, II and III. The participants were evaluated after an overnight withdrawal of anti-PD medication and with the STN …
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Balance performance of undergraduate dancers: an evaluation of current and novel approaches in balance testing and training in theatrical dance
Balance skills are considered essential for dancers as they are required to perform complex, virtuoso movements. However, there is a dearth of evidence on the appropriateness of existing balance tests and training protocols for dancers. The aims of this thesis were to: (a) test sequentially the …
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Pushing/Pulling Exertions Disturb Trunk Postural Stability
… variability and nonlinear analyses of seated balance tasks. However, processing methods require sufficient signal duration and test-retest experiments require that the assessment must be reliable. Our goal was to characterize the reliability and establish the trial duration for spine stability …
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The Effects of Concurrently Performing Balance and Cognitive Tasks Across the Life Span
… and task difficulty on the relationship between balance and cognition. We investigated twenty healthy children (mean age = 9.0 +/- 0.8), 20 young adults (mean age = 20.1 +/- 1.0), and 20 older adults (mean age = 70.0 +/- 3.6). Equal number of males and females were recruited for each age group. …
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Lifetime Assessment and Real-Time Reliability Evaluation of SIC MOSFETs in Power Converters
… frequency, gate-drive voltage, and cooling to balance performance and lifetime. Experimental validation demonstrates significant lifetime improvements compared to conventional control. The developed modeling, testing, and control methodologies collectively advance the design of …
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Influence of a short-term, multicomponent intervention on balance and strength among the elderly
… Few studies have combined strength and balance training to assess improvement of activities of daily living among subjects over the age of 65. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how an eight-week balance and strength training program can lead to improvements in activities of …
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Optimizing Out-Of-Memory Sparse-Dense Matrix Multiplication
… data locality, and investigate how they affect performance. Based on the performance study, we will design and implement an out-of-core framework that supports massive graph datasets which can not fit into memory. We foresee challenges in mitigating the overhead of accessing external storage, as …
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Exploring field sobriety tests to deter drunk driving
… to perform and evaluate a reaction time task, balance test, and give a verbal index of impairment. The actual BAC of each subject was determined using a breath-alcohol testing machine. The results indicated that self-reported measures of impairment were the best predictors of BAC. Of the …
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Advancing Deep Learning Efficiency: From Specialized Co-Design to Automated Generation
… full-stack inference solutions that effectively balance performance and costs. This work will present a comprehensive exploration into the algorithm-system co-optimization, hardware design specialization and automation for scalable AI deployment. First, we begin with algorithmic optimization for …
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A functional balance profile of school aged children and adolescents diagnosed with Down Syndrome, schooled in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa: a pilot study.
… are at a higher risk of falls due to impaired balance and gait patterns, which complicates their ability to safely engage in daily activities (Jung, Chung & Lee, 2017). Assessing balance function in children is not only important for identifying balance deficits, but also to inform and …
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An approach for the separation of voices in composite musical signals
… presentation of several sound sources in a performance setting is fundamental to most music. Ensemble musical signals consist of superpositions of multiple distinct sonic events which may or may not be synchronized in time, frequency, and/or amplitude. Once the distinct events are combined …
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Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Radar Based Fall Risk Monitoring System
… the need for frequent, low-cost, longterm balance monitoring solutions. This technology is compared with ground-truth contactbased lab sensors like force plates and motion capture systems, establishing a foundation for accurate balance assessments in home settings. In our cross-sectional …
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Towards the Development of an Adaptive Rehabilitative Device
Balance impairments severely affect the health and well-being of patients across multiple population groups. The most common treatment compensates for impaired balance by prescribing canes, which increase support base area, reduce paretic-limb load, and provide somatosensory feedback. However, to …
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Inline and Sideline Approaches for Low-cost Memory Safety in C
… such as C or C++ are widely used for their high performance, however the allowance of arbitrary pointer arithmetic and type cast introduces a risk of memory corruptions. These memory errors cause unexpected termination of programs, or even worse, attackers can exploit them to alter the behavior …
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Development of Resource-Constrained Computer Vision Algorithms: From Conventional Machine Learning to Deep Learning
… deployment of computer vision algorithms that balance performance with practical constraints. The projects resulted in a technical report, academic papers, patents and commercial implementations. The research and development provide valuable insights into the evolution of industrial computer …
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Security in Packet-Switched Land Mobile Radio Backbone Networks
… schemes affect voice communication and network performance as a whole. Since OPNET Modeler does not provide models of security functions, the source code of the transceiver system models was modified to introduce additional overhead that is representative of the various security solutions. …
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