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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"shoe"”.
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Helping the Shoe to Fit
<p><em>Helping the shoe to fit </em>is a collection of short stories and “flash fiction.” This collection explores animal perspectives, the medieval period, mythology, and family dynamics. Poetic devices within these stories put the reader into a position where they must interact with sound and …
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Detachable high heel shoe construction
… was to develop a detachable high heel shoe construction that could enter the current high heel market. The impact of high heel shoes on women's fashion is enormous but there are associated issues of comfort and health with these shoes. This work aims to maintain the appealing aspects of …
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Understanding shoe-surface interactions in football
One of the key aims of modern football shoe manufacturers is to find the balance between developing a shoe that improves performance but also minimises the risk of injury. Traction properties of the outsole play an important part in reaching this balance; high levels of traction are necessary to …
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Optimizing Shoe Midsoles for Running Performance
Running shoe design affects running performance. Running performance most commonly refers to running economy, the rate of oxygen consumed by an athlete running at a given speed, because it compares the input (metabolic) energy to the output (kinetic) energy. Running economy data is collected in …
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Aspects of automation in the shoe industry
The shoe manufacturing industry has undergone a revolution during the last 50 years, due to the introduction of task specific machinery. Great technological strides have been made in the areas of shoe manufacture prior to actual component assembly. Computer systems are now becoming the norm for the …
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Wage determination in the men's shoe industry : a case study of the shoe producing district centered around Brockton, Massachusetts
Thesis (Ph.D.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics, 1949.
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The biomechanical and neuromuscular responses to shoe-surface instability
Unstable shoes are a unique category of footwear that provide a training stimulus during casual wear. Reported therapeutic benefits have led to their commercial success, although enhancing muscle activations and balance, normally associated with instability training devices like wobble boards, are …
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3D numerical modelling and manipulation of a shoe last.
… competitive. This is especially true in the shoe industry with the employment of up-to-date methods of design and manufacture. The development of modem CAD/CAM systems, the availability of powerful hardware at reasonable cost and vast improvements in colour graphics capabilities have made the …
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Estimating and interpreting shoe sole wear for forensic investigation
This thesis tackles the challenges presented by shoemark evidence assessment within forensic science as summarised in the recent (2010) "RvT" judgement Modern evidence types, such as DNA, have raised expectations around the use of transparent and objective scientific frameworks within forensic …
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The design and development of aquatic exercise shoe flaps
… structure that is attached to the bottom of a shoe worn while exercising in the water was designed, developed, and prototyped. The structure freely bends downward so as to provide little resistance when the foot is raised, but is resistant to bending upward when the foot is pressed down, …
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Geometric and dynamic analysis of shoe-type centerless grinding
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1992.
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The functional analysis of shoe wear patterns : theory and application.
Shoe wear patterns have potential value in clinical diagnosis and forensic identification, although they lack rigorous study. Podiatrists have claimed understanding of shoe wear patterns, associating foot pathologies with characteristic patterns and implying a "onecondition, one wear pattern" …
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Shoe Bending Stiffness and Muscle-Tendon Unit Function in Running
… increase the longitudinal bending stiffness of a shoe. Several mechanisms were proposed to be associated with performance improvements when running in footwear with carbon fibre plates. One of these mechanisms, the principle of optimising muscle function is currently not well understood. …
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Price and production policy of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation
… and marketing activities of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, together with the character and extent of its competition, which have a bearing on its price and production polic.y. Since the activities of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in a very large part determine the …
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Design and testing of a flexible exoskeleton-to-shoe interface
… exoskeleton must be permanently attached to a shoe; holes are drilled into each new shoe used, a practice that is neither flexible nor cost-effective. A new attachment system is proposed to temporarily but securely connect the exoskeleton to shoes of various sizes. This exoskeleton-to-shoe …
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Smart shoe force sensor development and analysis for walking gait
… This thesis builds upon previous developed smart shoe sensors adapted from the MIT Cheetah robot using pressure sensors embedded in urethane rubber, Smooth-On's Vytaflex® 20. Past work developed accurate material models in Abaqus CAE to simulate foot contacts for compression and shear. This thesis …
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Investigating the Effects of Shoe Upper Panel Stiffness on Biomechanics
… The design and materialization of the upper of a shoe can impact biomechanical metrics and needs to be further explored during agility movements. Therefore, the first purpose of this study was to investigate the impact that stiffening the upper panel of an athletic shoe could have on agility …
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