Applying an external force to a person’s hyperextended fingertip produces electrical activity in the extensor digitorum communis, even if the person does not try to open their hand. Based on this, a finger extensor f...
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Applying an external force to a person’s hyperextended fingertip produces electrical activity in the extensor digitorum communis, even if the person does not try to open their hand. Based on this, a finger extensor facilitation technique conducted by therapists was developed. In this study, we developed a finger extensor facilitation training device named iPARKO that imitates this technique. We examined the relationship between the metacarpophalangeal (MP) joint angle of the four fingers and the activities in the extensor digitorum communis resulting from active training using iPARKO. At the same time, the relationship between the MP joint angle and the reduced activities in the flexor digitorum superficialis was also examined. The experiments were conducted on five healthy subjects. It was found that as the MP joint approached its own maximum hyperextension position, the amount of activity of the extensor digitorum communis increased, and the amount of activity of the flexor digitorum superficialis decreased.
The transiHon to a low-carbon economy demands efficient and sustainable energy-storage soluHons, with hydrogen emerging as a promising clean-energy carrier and with metal hydrides recognized for their hydrogen-storage...
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Long period stacking ordered (LPSO) phases play strong barriers to the motion of nonbasal dislocations and deformation twins, effectively improving the strength of Mg alloys. Corresponding to the crystallographic char...
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Biological materials usually show remarkable mechanical properties, despite being composed of fragile and simple components (i.e., strong but brittle minerals and tough but weak proteins). These properties are conferr...
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In the severe high-temperature environment caused by aerodynamic heating, the vibrational excitation, dissociation and ionization of gas may successively occur, which are known as real gas effects. Under the real gas ...
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In the severe high-temperature environment caused by aerodynamic heating, the vibrational excitation, dissociation and ionization of gas may successively occur, which are known as real gas effects. Under the real gas effects, the thermodynamic properties of gas vary drastically and significantly influence the performances of the active thermal protection system of hypersonic vehicles, especially in the case with coolant outflow, for example transpiration cooling. This paper numerically investigates the transpiration cooling performance with the consideration of the interaction between coolant outflow and hypersonic flow under the real gas effects. The mathematical models and coupled numerical strategy are firstly validated by experimental data, then the influences of real gas effects on the transpiration cooling of a wedged leading edge (WLE) are studied under a flight Mach number range from 8 to 12 and a flight height of 40 km. The analysis and discussions of the numerical results reveal some important phenomena and demonstrate the need to consider real gas effects.
A series of defect-rich carbon particles with different sizes are successfully synthesized via a facile synthesis process. Various characterizations demonstrate that the particle size increases with the carbonization ...
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This study aims to present simple conversion expressions of strains–stresses and the energy density for beams and plates subjected to high-frequency random forces using the radiative energy transfer method (RETM). Eu...
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This study aims to present simple conversion expressions of strains–stresses and the energy density for beams and plates subjected to high-frequency random forces using the radiative energy transfer method (RETM). Euler–Bernoulli beam theory and Kirchhoff plate theory are introduced to describe the deflections of beam and plate. The conversion expressions of strains–stresses and energy density for a single propagation wave are quickly established by dispersion relations. For multi-cylindrical wave fields, the strains–stresses are superimposed by the wave fields generated by the actual source in the domain and the wave fields reflected by the fictitious sources at boundaries according to Huygens’ superposition principle. The conversion expressions of strains–stresses and energy density in the energy finite element method (EFEM), which supposes that the superposition of plane waves forms the wave field, are also derived. Numerical examples indicate that in damping-frequency space, the conversion expressions obtained by RETM have a wider application region than those obtained by EFEM and can be applied to a low-frequency band than the corresponding energy algorithm itself.
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Borosilicate compositions were designed to explore effects of a fixed amount of Cr, as Cr2O3 or Na2CrO4, and the impact of Al2O3, on sulfur solubility by progressively adding elemental S. The series with Al2O3 has a h...
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