754 research outputs found
Dr. Auley Crouch, Sr. and Dr. J. Buren Sidbury (Sr.?)
No full textDr. Auley McRae Crouch, Sr., received his M.D. from Jefferson College in 1916. He married Miss Muriel Lee Fales and together they had two sons, Auley McRae Crouch, Jr. and Walter Lee Crouch, who also became Physicians. Notable achievements: Director, Bureau of Epidemiology, 1917-1920; First local Physician to do bronchoscopies; President of the New Hanover Medical Society, 1936.
Dr. James Buren Sidbury, Sr., (1886-7967), son of Verlinza and Fannie Willims Sidbury, was born March 2nd, 1886 in Holly Ridge, North Carolina. He married Miss Willie Daniel and they had a son, James Buren Sidbury, Jr. and daughter, Rowena Sidbury Lenart, who were also Physicians. He attended Trinity College (Duke) (1908) and Columbia University, where he earned his M.D. (1912). He was in private practice as a Pediatrician and served from 1915-1967. He was the founder and Medical Director of the Babies Hospital, a pioneer in Pediatrics in North Carolina and President of the New Hanover County Medical Society. He died January 7th, 1967 in Wilmington, North Carolina
How Crouch Gait Can Dynamically Induce Stiff-Knee Gait
No full textChildren with cerebral palsy frequently experience foot dragging and tripping during walking due to a lack of adequate knee flexion in swing (stiff-knee gait). Stiff-knee gait is often accompanied by an overly flexed knee during stance (crouch gait). Studies on stiff-knee gait have mostly focused on excessive knee muscle activity during (pre)swing, but the passive dynamics of the limbs may also have an important effect. To examine the effects of a crouched posture on swing knee flexion, we developed a forwarddynamic model of human walking with a passive swing knee, capable of stable cyclic walking for a range of stance knee crouch angles. As crouch angle during stance was increased, the knee naturally flexed much less during swing, resulting in a ‘stiff-knee’ gait pattern and reduced foot clearance. Reduced swing knee flexion was primarily due to altered gravitational moments around the joints during initial swing. We also considered the effects of increased push-off strength and swing hip flexion torque, which both increased swing knee flexion, but the effect of crouch angle was dominant. These findings demonstrate that decreased knee flexion during swing can occur purely as the dynamical result of crouch, rather than from altered muscle function or pathoneurological control alone.Biomechanical EngineeringMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
Improved Streaming Algorithms for Weighted Matching, via Unweighted Matching
No full textWe present a (4 + epsilon) approximation algorithm for weighted graph matching which applies in the semistreaming, sliding window, and MapReduce models; this single algorithm improves the previous best algorithm in each model. The algorithm operates by reducing the maximum-weight matching problem to a polylog number of copies of the maximum-cardinality matching problem. The algorithm also extends to provide approximation guarantees for the more general problem of finding weighted independent sets in p-systems (which include intersections of p matroids and p-bounded hypergraph matching)
Public Policy in a Private Arena: The Case of Vocational Education and Training
No full textM.21586-1998 Colin Crouch. 30 cm. This paper is based on a seminar that he presented at the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences of the Juan March Institute, Madrid, on 9 May 1995, entitled Diversity in Modern Capitalism: Examples from Vocational Education." -- T.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-37
Mehr Staat oder mehr Freiheit? Streitgespräch
No full textMuss man neue Monopole bekämpfen? Gibt es eine Überregulierung oder zu viel staatliche Bevormundung? Darüber diskutieren Colin Crouch und Daniel Zimmer, moderiert von Hans-Jürgen Jakobs und Regina Krieger
Podgórecki Prize 2022 awarded to Melissa Crouch
No full textThe RCSL has awarded the Podgórecki Prize 2022 for outstanding scholarship of an early career socio‐legal scholar to Professor Melissa Crouch. Melissa Crouch is Professor of the School of Global and Public Law, University of New South Wales, Australia. Melissa is the author of The Constitution of Myanmar (2019) and Law and Religion in Indonesia: Conflict and the Courts in West Java (2014). She has published in a range of peer-reviewed journals including Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inq..
DataWarp: Building Applications which Make Progress in an Inconsistent World
No full textThe usual approach to dealing with imperfections in data is to attempt to eliminate them. However, the nature of modern systems means this is often futile. This paper describes an approach which permits applications to operate notwithstanding inconsistent data. Instead of attempting to extract a single, correct view of the world from its data, a DataWarp application constructs a collection of interpretations. It adopts one of these and continues work. Since it acts on assumptions, the DataWarp application considers its recent work to be provisional, expecting eventually most of these actions will become definitive. Should the application decide to adopt an alternative data view, it may then need to void provisional actions before resuming work. We describe the DataWarp architecture, discuss its implementation and describe an experiment in which a DataWarp application in an environment containing inconsistent data achieves better results than its conventional counterpart
The comparison of standing and crouch start
No full textTitle: The comparison of standing and crouch start Objectives: Analysis of time differences in base running from the position of standing and crouch start. Another goal was to compare these starts in group of male sprinters and then to compare these starts with female softball players. Methods: Mainly document analysis was used in my diploma thesis. The author used both Czech and foreign sources. The foreign sources were mainly scientific researches, professional studies and articles from scientific journals. The issue was closely linked to running bases in softball, athletic starts and strenght training focused on thy dynamic component. Standing and crouch starts were then examined in detail. Results: It was found that the standing start compared to the crouch start enhances the results of female softball players by 0,06 s at the distance of 20 meters. The difference in the group of male athletes was only 0,01 s. Major differences were observed in female softball players already within the first 5 meters where the first time difference appeared. This difference was gradually rising until the end of the 20 m distance. Keywords: base running, running in softball, athletic start, three-point stance start, standing start, crouch star
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