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Upper limb assessment of people with multiple sclerosis with the use of a haptic nine hole peg-board test
(Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, CyprusCorrespondence Address: Xydas, E. G.Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of CyprusCyprus, 2009)In this work, a nine-hole peg-board test (NHPT) arrangement is implemented in a Virtual Environment with the use of a Haptic Interface that has the form of a small robotic arm. The Haptic NHPT is used as a mean for ...
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Upper limb motion profile during small to medium time-limited reaching tasks in A VR based robotic training environment
(Affiliation: University of Cyprus, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 75 Kallipoleos Street, Nicosia 1678, CyprusCorrespondence Address: Xydas, E. G.University of Cyprus, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 75 Kallipoleos Street, Nicosia 1678, Cyprusemail: mep4ex1@ucy.ac.cy, 2008)In the area of rehabilitation robotics, many researchers have investigated the therapeutic effects of forces that are proportional to the difference of the user's hand trajectory with an optimum trajectory that is usually ...
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Uranium adsorption by polyvinylpyrrolidone/chitosan blended nanofibers
(2019)PVP/chitosan blended nanofibers have been prepared and investigated as adsorbent material for the removal of hexavalent uranium (U(VI)) from aqueous solutions. The nanofibers have been characterized prior and after U(VI) ...
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The use of generalized eulerian–lagrangian formulations in composite materials processing
(1994)The advantages of the Generalized Eulerian–Lagrangian (GEL) formulations in modeling and numerical solution of unsteady flow of fiber suspensions are discussed. This formulation offers the flexibility of selectively applying ...
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The use of pulsed laser deposited seed layers for the aqueous solution growth of highly oriented ZnO nanowires on sapphire substrates at 95 C: Study of their photocatalytic activity in terms of octadecanoic (stearic) acid degradation
(2013)The photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanowires grown via an aqueous solution approach at 95 C onto sapphire substrates, which were first pre-coated with ZnO seed layers deposited by pulsed laser deposition at various ...
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Using Coarrays to Parallelize Legacy Fortran Applications: Strategy and Case Study
(2015)This paper summarizes a strategy for parallelizing a legacy Fortran 77 programusing the object-oriented (OO) and coarray features that entered Fortran in the 2003 and 2008 standards, respectively. OO programming (OOP) ...
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Using the Milliken Moment Method and dynamic simulation to evaluate vehicle stability and controllability
(2008)The Milliken Moment Method (MMM) effectively organises kinematically constrained vehicle test results. The authors present a method for evaluating vehicle handling
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Using the milliken moment method and dynamic simulation to evaluate vehicle stability and controllability
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)The Milliken Moment Method (MMM) is a way of efficiently organizing the results from a kinematically constrained vehicle test. Using the MMM and closed-loop dynamic simulation, the authors present a new method for evaluating ...
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A Validated Multiscale In-Silico Model for Mechano-sensitive Tumour Angiogenesis and Growth
(2017)Vascularisation is a key feature of cancer growth, invasion and metastasis. To better understand the governing biophysical processes and their relative importance, it is instructive to develop physiologically representative ...
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Validation and use of SIMULINK integrated, high fidelity, engine-in-vehicle simulation of the international class VI truck
(2000)This work presents the development, validation and use of a SIMULINK integrated vehicle system simulation composed of engine, driveline and vehicle dynamics modules. The engine model links the appropriate number of ...
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Vanadium(IV) - Citrate complex interconversions in aqueous solutions. A pH-dependent synthetic, structural, spectroscopic, and magnetic study
(2001)Citrate is abundantly encountered in biological fluids as a natural metal ion chelator. Vanadium participates in biological processes as a catalyst in the active sites of metalloenzymes, as a metabolic regulator, as a ...
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Variable property DNS of differentially heated cavities filled with air
(2020)Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the thermally-driven flow of air inside differentially heated cavities (DHC) are presented. The variation of air properties is taken into account using the low-Mach approximation, to ...
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Vascular flow and perfusion imaging with ultrasound contrast agents
(2004)Current techniques for imaging ultrasound (US) contrast agents (UCA) make no distinction between low-velocity microbubbles in the microcirculation and higher-velocity microbubbles in the larger vasculature. A combination ...
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Vascular Ultrasound Imaging with Contrast Agents: Carotid Plaque Neovascularization and the Hyperplastic Vasa Vasorum Network
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)
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Vasodilator-Stimulated Phosphoprotein (VASP) depletion from breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells inhibits tumor spheroid invasion through downregulation of Migfilin, β-catenin and urokinase-plasminogen activator (uPA)
(2017)A hallmark of cancer cells is their ability to invade surrounding tissues and form metastases. Cell-extracellular matrix (ECM)-adhesion proteins are crucial in metastasis, connecting tumor ECM with actin cytoskeleton thus ...
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Vehicle model robustness: A case study of the FMTV military truck model
(2005)Vital to the effectiveness of simulation-based design is having a model of known quality of the system being designed. The purpose of this paper is to validate a simplified dynamic model of an FMTV (Family of Medium Tactical ...
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Very high thermoelectric power factor in a Fe3O4/SiO2/p-type Si(100) heterostructure
(2012)The thermoelectric and transport properties of a Fe3O4/SiO2/p-Si(100) heterostructure have been investigated between 100 and 300 K. Both Hall and Seebeck coefficients change sign from negative to positive with increasing ...
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Vibration Measurement of Occupational Exposed Workers, Experimental Quantification of the Individual Response Parameters for the Estimation of Uncertainty in the Vertical Direction
(American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2014)The exposure of seated people to whole body vibration has been extensively researched and modelled during the past two decades. The trend is to use the average biodynamic responses. This paper investigates the relation of ...
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Vibrational and electronic anomalies near Tc in tetragonal superconducting YBa2(Cu0.9557Fe0.05)3O7.1
(1988)Mössbauer effect studies have been made as a function of temperature for the orthorhombic (χ=0.01, 0.02) and tetragonal (χ=0.05) superconducting compounds YBa2(Cu1-χ57Feχ)3O7 + y. For Fe in or slightly displaced from the ...
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Viscoplastic fluids: From theory to application (VPF2009), Limassol, Cyprus, 1-5 November, 2009
(2011)