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Maria Roldan and Panicos A. Kyriacou
(1) Background: Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) result in high fatality and lifelong disability rates. Two of the primary biomarkers in assessing TBI are intracranial pressure (ICP) and brain oxygenation. Both are assessed using standalone techniques, out...
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Noor Arifah Azwani Abdul Yamin, Khairul Salleh Basaruddin, Muhammad Farzik Ijaz, Mohd Hanafi Mat Som, Muhammad Nazrin Shah Shahrol Aman and Hiroshi Takemura
Postural stability may be affected during slope walking, as there are different body kinetics and kinematic responses compared with level walking. Understanding body adaptations toward different inclinations is essential to prevent the risk of injury fro...
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Zixiang Shan, Shixing Zhou, Asma Shah, Yasir Arafat, Syed Arif Hussain Rizvi and Hua Shao
The allelopathy definition accepted by the International Allelopathy Society is any process or phenomenon via which organisms such as plants, microorganism, viruses, and fungi release specific metabolites, known as allelochemicals, into the environment t...
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Andrea Biscarini, Cristina V. Dieni, Raffaele Losavio, Roberto Panichi and Samuele Contemori
(1) Background: The static body-weight wall-squat (SBWS) exercise is often included in the early rehabilitation stages of the lower limb. To establish its effectiveness and optimise its application, it is important to precisely quantify the muscle contri...
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Marta Izquierdo-Renau, Roberto Sanchis-Sanchis, Jose I. Priego-Quesada, Alberto Encarnación-Martínez, Ana Queralt and Pedro Pérez-Soriano
The use of minimalist shoes (MS) in running involves changes in running mechanics compared to conventional shoes (CS), but there is still little research analysing the effects of this footwear on plantar pressure, which could help to understand some risk...
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Xuanzhen Cen, Zhenghui Lu, Julien S. Baker, Bíró István and Yaodong Gu
Although values of arch stiffness index (ASI) have been used to evaluate arch structure and injury susceptibility, investigations are limited regarding the influence of ASI on biomechanical characteristics during gait termination, which involves a challe...
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Fernando Ribeiro, Filipe Fidalgo, Arlindo Silva, José Metrôlho, Osvaldo Santos and Rogério Dionisio
Pressure ulcers are associated with significant morbidity, resulting in a decreased quality of life for the patient, and contributing to healthcare professional burnout, as well as an increase of health service costs. Their prompt diagnosis and treatment...
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Shuo Huang, Weiqi Liu, Wanzhen Luo and Kai Wang
The motion stability of the Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) is threatened by the action of waves under a rough sea state. In the present paper, the motion of a large-scale USV is numerically simulated under high sea state of level 5 and 7. The overset grid...
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Woon-Man Kung, I-Shiang Tzeng and Muh-Shi Lin
In patients suffering from severe traumatic brain injury and massive stroke (hemorrhagic or ischemic), decompressive craniectomy (DC) is a surgical strategy used to reduce intracranial pressure, and to prevent brainstem compromise from subsequent brain e...
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Van-Thuc Tran, Kota Sasaki and Shin-ichiroh Yamamoto
In recent years, the Body Weight Support system has been considered to be an indispensable component in gait training systems, which be used to improve the ability to walk of hemiplegic, stroke, and spinal cord injury patients. Previous studies investiga...
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