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Kyeong Eun Min, YongSuk Lee and Jihong Park
To examine individual or combined effects of static stretch and explosive contraction on quadriceps spinal-reflex excitability (the peak Hoffmann?s reflex normalized by the peak motor-response) and the latency times of the Hoffmann?s reflex and motor-res...
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Cheng-Tao Tsai, Ying-Che Kuo, Ying-Piao Kuo and Chin-Tsung Hsieh
In this paper, a reflex charger with zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) and non-dissipative cells for photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion is presented. The proposed reflex charger has the following advantages: (1) A ZVS cell is incorporated to reduce the switc...
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Milan Martínek, David Pánek, Tereza Nováková and Dagmar Pavlu
Vojta?s therapy is a widely used approach in both the prevention and therapy of musculoskeletal disorders. Changes in the musculoskeletal system have been described repeatedly, but the principles of the approach have not yet been clarified. The objective...
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Cara Rodgveller, Christiane V. Löhr and John A. Dimond
It is unknown if capture coupled with time out of water on-deck affect sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) health and reflexes, and whether it contributes to acute or delayed mortality. In this study, 35 sablefish were caught using hook-and-line gear and give...
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Rosiberto Gonçalves, Jesse J. M. Soares and Ricardo M. F. Lima
The world?s population growth and climate changes increase the demand for high-quality water. This fact forces humankind to create new water management strategies. Smart cities have successfully applied the Internet of Things (IoT) technology in many sec...
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Roberta Cornélio Ferreira Nocelli,Clara Tavares Lourenço,Sandra Eloisi Denardi-Gheller,Osmar Malaspina,Andrigo Monroe Pereira,Fellipe Chaves Nominato
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The proboscis extension reflex (PER) applied to restrained individuals is an important method to assess the sucrose responsiveness under laboratory conditions. Several authors have used the PER bioassay to assess behavioral effects of pesticides. A lot o...
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Jikun Wang, Yaodong Fan, Xudong Zhao and Nanhui Chen
The pupillary responses to light in patients with depression and normal controls were evaluated among Chinese females. Four parameters related to the pupil were assessed using a video-based pupillometer. The results showed that there were significant dif...
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Ruchi Shah, Marina W. Samuel and Jongsang Son
The aim of this review was to provide an overview of the recent findings on the acute and chronic effects of static stretching on joint behaviors and neuromuscular responses and to discuss the overall effects of acute and chronic static stretching on sel...
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José D. Hoyos, Camilo Echavarría, Juan P. Alvarado, Gustavo Suárez, Juliana A. Niño and Jorge I. García
An aero-structural algorithm to optimize a flying wing in cruise conditions for preliminary design is developed using two-way interaction between the structure and aerodynamics. A particle swarm routine is employed to solve the multi-objective optimizati...
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Pasquale Bottalico and Silvia Murgia
The Lombard effect is an unconscious reflex of speakers to increase vocal effort when disturbed by noise, aiming to enhance speech intelligibility. This study aims to evaluate the effect of noise with different energetic content and levels at various fre...
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Daniele Gaudenzi, Tommaso Mori, Salvatore Crugliano, Antonella Grasso, Carlo Frontini, Antonella Carducci, Siddharth Yadav, Roberto Sgrulletta, Emiliano Schena, Marco Coassin and Antonio Di Zazzo
Dry eye disease (DED) is one of the conditions that most commonly leads patients to visit an ophthalmologist. Fast and accurate diagnosis relieves patient discomfort and spares them from long-term effects on the ocular surface. Many tests used in the dia...
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Martina Ricci, Stefano Gino Mosele, Marcello Benvenuto, Pio Astrua, Roberto Pacciani and Michele Marconcini
The increasing introduction of renewable energy capacity has changed the perspective on the operation of conventional power plants, introducing the necessity of reaching extreme off-design conditions. There is a strong interest in the development and opt...
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Shuxiao Wang, Jianping Zhao, Lixiong Wang, Wenye Hu and Fanfang Yan
The pupillary light reflex, which has been seen as an important noninvasive and objective indicator of autonomic nervous system function, can be used for evaluating the impact of different lighting conditions in buildings on circadian behaviors, assessin...
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Jhe-Syuan Lai, Yi-Hung Tsai, Min-Jhen Chang, Jun-Yi Huang and Chao-Ming Chi
A virtual tour of the onshore wind farm near Gaomei Wetland, Taichung City, Taiwan, was produced by producing panoramic images of the site by stitching images captured with a full-frame digital single-lens reflex camera and a multi-row panorama instrumen...
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Fangyuan Hu, Huiyan Wang, Ruihuan Tian, Jujie Gao, Guo Wu, Donghong Yin and Chong Zhao
The sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus and the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius are two commercially important species and are widely cultured in China. Here, a laboratory experiment was conducted for 34 days to assess whether the survival, gro...
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Runshen Wang, Dominic E. L. Ong, Mohammud I. Peerun and Dong-Sheng Jeng
The study of soil?structure interface behavior contributes to the fundamental understanding of engineering performance and foundation design optimization. Previous research studies the effect of soil characteristics and surface roughness property on the ...
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Carl Strathearn
This study employs a novel 3D engineered robotic eye system with dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) pupils and a 3D sculpted and colourised gelatin iris membrane to replicate the appearance and materiality of the human eye. A camera system for facial ex...
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Hanbing Wei, Yanhong Wu, Xing Chen and Jin Xu
For investigating driver characteristic as well as control authority allocation during the process of human?vehicle shared control (HVSC) for an autonomous vehicle (AV), a HVSC dynamic mode with a driver?s neuromuscular (NMS) state parameters was propose...
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Jhe-Syuan Lai, Yu-Chi Peng, Min-Jhen Chang and Jun-Yi Huang
The present researchers took multistation-based panoramic images and imported the processed images into a virtual tour platform to create webpages and a virtual reality environment. The integrated multimedia platform aims to assist students in a surveyin...
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Anita Gidlöf-Gunnarsson and Evy Öhrström
The present paper explores the influence of the physical environmental qualities of ?quiet?. courtyards (degree of naturalness and utilization) on residents? noise responses. A questionnaire study was conducted in urban residential areas with road-traffi...
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