A cycling wheel chair (CWC) is a useful tool to provide physical exercise for patients who face difficulty walking, caused by stroke or other brain disorders. A system has been developed for rehabilitation, which allo...
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(纸本)9781457717871
A cycling wheel chair (CWC) is a useful tool to provide physical exercise for patients who face difficulty walking, caused by stroke or other brain disorders. A system has been developed for rehabilitation, which allows patients to practice driving a CWC in a virtual environment. In this study, hardware improvements were developed and methods for evaluating driving skills were investigated to improve the practical application of this system. The hardware was changed to enable users to drive the CWC they were using in their daily lives. In addition, four types of test scenarios that focused on basic and important actions necessary to drive a CWC, such as pedaling and steering, were developed. An experiment with healthy young and elderly persons was conducted to evaluate the validity of the system. Results showed that pedaling and steering skills were improved in both the young and elderly subjects but the improvement patterns differed between them. These results indicate that repeated practice with the proposed system enhances the safety of driving a CWC, particularly for elderly users.
We previously proposed an eccentric figure-eight coil design which induces sufficient currents in the brain at lower output powers of stimulator. In the present study, numerical analyses were performed with various co...
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We previously proposed an eccentric figure-eight coil design which induces sufficient currents in the brain at lower output powers of stimulator. In the present study, numerical analyses were performed with various coil design parameters, such as outer and inner diameters and number of turns, to investigate the influence of these parameters on the eddy current distribution in the brain and the coil characteristics. Increases in the inner diameter, the outer diameter, and the number of turns caused increases in the induced currents. In order to downsize the stimulator system, we need to strengthen the eddy current in the brain, maintaining inductance as small as possible. Our results show that it is effective to enlarge outer diameter. In addition, there is only small difference in the eddy current distributions between the eccentric coil and the concentric coil in direction along with the coil plane and with depth of the brain.
Forest fire is one of the major natural risks in the north of Iran. It is impossible to control nature, but is possible to map forest fire risk zone and thereby minimize the risk of fire. The aim of this study is mode...
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(纸本)9781467311601
Forest fire is one of the major natural risks in the north of Iran. It is impossible to control nature, but is possible to map forest fire risk zone and thereby minimize the risk of fire. The aim of this study is modeling the potential of forest fire in the Golestan forests by using Remote Sensing, GIS and aerologic data. The variables in this study must be weighted according to their impact on the forest fire hazard. Therefore analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and fuzzy-AHP, used to rank and prioritize the causative factors of fire risk in the study area. Fires occurred at 2010 in this zone and using the MODIS fire product dataset shown that majority of burned area were in the recommended risky places of this model by overall accuracy about 64%. Finally the sensitivity analysis applied to model wherein shown the fuel has highest degree of sensitivity.
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Rui TanakaSatoshi MatsumotoAkiko KanekoYutaka AbeUniversity of Tsukuba
Graduate school of System and Information Engineering1-1-1TennoudaiTsukubaIbaraki 305-8573Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyInstitute of Space and Astronautical Science2-1-1SengenTsukubaIbaraki305-8505Japan
作者:
Rui TanakaSatoshi MatsumotoAkiko KanekoYutaka AbeUniversity of Tsukuba
Graduate school of System and Information Engineering.1-1-1TennoudaiTsukubaIbaraki 305-8573Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyInstitute of Space and Astronautical Science.2-1-1TennoudaiTsukubaIbaraki 305-8573Japan
Thermophysical property measurement of material without container is promising technique with high accuracy for high temperature molten *** environment is useful to achieve containerless condition,and levitation techn...
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Thermophysical property measurement of material without container is promising technique with high accuracy for high temperature molten *** environment is useful to achieve containerless condition,and levitation technique also realizes the containerless processing even on the *** purpose of this study is to establish measurement technique of viscosity with moderate viscous range,which has no conventional measurement *** this study,a drop is levitated by electrostatic force,induced to *** dynamic behavior of levitated drop shape is observed. Figure 1 shows deformation of levitated drop by *** simulation is result by
This paper presents joint source channel variable length (VL) coding/decoding based on a space *** constructing a joint decoding plane trellis,better decoding performance can be achieved than by using the bit-level de...
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This paper presents joint source channel variable length (VL) coding/decoding based on a space *** constructing a joint decoding plane trellis,better decoding performance can be achieved than by using the bit-level decoding ***,the plane trellis is complicated,which results in high decoding complexity for decoding VL turbo *** solve this problem,we construct a space trellis and design a low-complexity joint decoding algorithm with a variable length symbol-a posteriori probability (VLS-APP) algorithm in resource constrained deep space communication *** results show that the proposed approach reduces the decoding complexity by 10% compared with the plane trellis,and the gain of Eb/N0 is about 0.2 dB at SER=***,it provides substantial error protection for variable-length encoded image data.
The accident probability of beginner drivers is significantly higher than that of experienced drivers. It can be assumed that this is due to lack of driving skills which lead to making wrong decisions according to cog...
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The accident probability of beginner drivers is significantly higher than that of experienced drivers. It can be assumed that this is due to lack of driving skills which lead to making wrong decisions according to cognition and operating in correct way. In this paper, we propose a novel assisted driving system intended to help drivers to improve their skills for the reverse parking. The system is able to assist the driver by haptic instruction on the steering wheel in order to induce the driver to make the adequate operation. For the validation, we developed a 1/10 scale car simulator as a simulation environment on which we installed the proposed assistance method and conducted reverse parking experiment by using the simulator. According to the experiment, we validated that the parking accuracy and the trajectory similarity of subjects assisted by proposed system significantly increased compare to subjects unassisted. Consequently, the proposed assisted driving system could accelerate the learning of humans' driving skills.
Substrate noise coupling and impacts on RF integrated circuits (RFICs) have been intensively studied for intending a single chip solution of wireless communication systems. On-chip measurements characterize noises fro...
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The purpose of this study was to quantitatively assess the influence of the Fåhraeus-Lindqvist effect on the microcirculation in the arteriovenous network of the human retina. A mathematical model was used to sim...
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The purpose of this study was to quantitatively assess the influence of the Fåhraeus-Lindqvist effect on the microcirculation in the arteriovenous network of the human retina. A mathematical model was used to simulate the arteriovenous distributions of hemodynamic parameters within a microvascular network of successive, symmetric bifurcating branches that were constructed based on both flow conservation and a modified Murray's lawwith a diameter exponent of 2.85. The vessel calibers ranged from a 108-μm arteriole and a 147-μm venule down to the 5-μm capillaries. The distributions of vascular resistance, pressure drop, and wall shear stress as a function of vessel diameter within the retinal microcirculatory network with the Fåhraeus- Lindqvist effect were lower than those without the Fåhraeus-Lindqvist effect. The efficiency of blood transport to tissues in the microvascular bed, which was evaluated in terms of the inverse of the mechanical energy cost of the product of the driving pressure and blood flow, was 44 greater with the Fåhraeus-Lindqvist effect than without the Fåhraeus-Lindqvist effect. These results quantitatively demonstrated that the Fåhraeus-Lindqvist effect plays an important role in reducing the physical energy required to transport blood that flows through the microcirculatory network. The integrated and interactive relationships between shear stress, circumferential wall stress, vessel radius, and wall thickness in response to acute and chronic increases in perfusion pressure are discussed with regard to their coordinating roles in the control of blood flow and pressure in microcirculation.
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