57 research outputs found
Case study of physiotherapy treatment of a patient with the diagnosis Ankle Distortion
No full textTitle: Physiotherapeutic treatment of a patient with ankle distortion Nazev: Fyzioterapeutická léčba pacienta s zkreslení kotníku Author: Vryonides Panayiotis Location of clinical practice: C.L.P.A (Centrum léčby pohybového aparátu) Aim The purpose of my bachelor thesis is to understand the structure and function of the ankle joint as well to discuss the most common injuries concerning the ankle. Moreover a day-to-day rehabilitation program will be presented concerning ankle distortion. Summary The bachelor thesis consists of two major parts, the general part where an extensive analysis concerning the diagnosis (ankle distortion), the anatomy, biomechanics and common injuries takes place. Moreover it follows the practical part, which also is the main part of the thesis. It consist the anamnesis, all the initial and final examinations and the day after day rehabilitation procedures and progress. Regarding the therapeutic session, they were composed with stability exercises, sensomotoric stimulation, strengthening and also from physical therapy laser. Results Subsequently of the eight rehabilitation sessions that I had with my patient, he fully recovers. The pain and the limitation on the ankle joint that he had wasn't enormous as a result to succeed great results in that limited time that we had. A..
Simulation of TIOA
No full textThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74).This Master of Engineering Thesis describes the design, implementation, and usage of the TIOA Simulator. The TIOA Simulator, along with the other components of the TIOA Toolset aims to provide a framework for developing dependable distributed systems. The project is based on the Timed Input/Output Automaton framework, and supports TIOA, a formal language for specifying timed I/O automata. Simulation of TIOA programs is useful in the process of testing the proposed system over a specific set of executions. During the execution the Simulator is able to test proposed invariants and validate a proposed simulation relation between the system's implementation and its specification. A step correspondence between the steps of the implementation and the specification drives the validation of the simulation relation. The identification and validation of the invariants and the simulation relation constitutes the first step towards a formal verification of the system's correctness. The proposed step correspondence can be used in a formal proof to show that the proposed relation is indeed a simulation relation.by Panayiotis P. Mavrommatis.M.Eng
Improving temporal interpolation of head and body pose using Gaussian process regression in a matrix completion setting
No full textThis paper presents a model for head and body pose estimation (HBPE) when labelled samples are highly sparse. The current state-of-the-art multimodal approach to HBPE utilizes the matrix completion method in a transductive setting to predict pose labels for unobserved samples. Based on this approach, the proposed method tackles HBPE when manually annotated ground truth labels are temporally sparse. We posit that the current state of the art approach oversimplifies the temporal sparsity assumption by using Laplacian smoothing. Our final solution uses: i) Gaussian process regression in place of Laplacian smoothing, ii) head and body coupling, and iii) nuclear norm minimization in the matrix completion setting. The model is applied to the challenging SALSA dataset for benchmark against the state-of-the-art method. Our presented formulation outperforms the state-of-the-art significantly in this particular setting, e.g. at 5% ground truth labels as training data, head pose accuracy and body pose accuracy is approximately 62% and 70%, respectively. As well as fitting a more flexible model to missing labels in time, we posit that our approach also loosens the head and body coupling constraint, allowing for a more expressive model of the head and body pose typically seen during conversational interaction in groups. This provides a new baseline to improve upon for future integration of multimodal sensor data for the purpose of HBPE.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatic
3D Printed Soft Fluidic Actuator for an Assistive Hand Exoskeleton Device
No full textIn the following study, a new concept of an assistive hand exoskeleton device for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients is presented. Due to the nature of this disease (causes progressive muscle degeneration from a young age of five years old), the requirements for such a device are very demanding, with extreme space and weight limitations, as well as high generated forces. The idea that is presented, is a 3D-printed soft hydraulic actuator that can be used to actuate such a demanding device. Different actuator prototypes have been prepared and tested, with a maximum generated force of around 0.4N. The outcome force does not fulfill the functional requirements that is 1-3N, but space, range of motion (ROM) and weight requirements have been met. In addition, the author demonstrates a complete design of a single-part, 3D-printed assistive hand exoskeleton device, with both the hydraulic circuit and the soft hydraulic actuators embedded in it. Despite the functional requirements that haven’t been fulfilled, the idea of a single-part 3D-printed hand exoskeleton device is beneficial in simplicity, required space, cosmetic appearance, as well as the overall weight that was estimated to be no more than 150gr. Finally, there is a discussion regarding the future steps that the author suggests to increase the maximum generated force of the soft actuators and therefore the development of the first single-part, 3D-printed hand exoskeleton.Mechanical Engineering | BioMechanical Desig
+ecdochica: The spolia of in between
No full textRené Char's aphorism 'They installed us heirs without a will' as a cause for reflection locates the inability of the man of the 21st century to perceive what the past of the place has left behind. In general, it demonstrates the failure of our instant culture to understand the meaning of urban heritage and the dismissal of a consciousness of the past. This consciousness and its identification within the space of ruins is a prevalent theme in architecture ever since renaissance, and today it’s becoming even more pressing especially in the light of cultural provision along the New Silk Road. In the case of Istanbul, and more specifically the port of Haydarpaşa, this space is under scrutiny since the system of values that governs it is shifting drastically. Among ancient ruins and neglected industrial heritage, the city fluctuates through a process of change, in a constant state of in-between, struggling to tolerate the unresolved borders of different social, cultural, and historical layers, all of which are interwoven within the same urban narrative. How can we use architecture as a medium to bridge the gaps between the different layers of cultural and historical importance that contrast and intersect within the urban fabric? How to enable a ruin space pivotal to Istanbul’s modern and ancient history in order to become part of the landscape of a new coastal development that has been closed off to the city for decades? The design proposal aims to the prospective revisiting of the ruin space as a field of interpretation, revision and reconstruction that is reflective instead of restorative towards the potential future. It suggests a place existing so above as below the current site that reflects the contradictory forces of its very creation, the underground archeology of antiquity and the overground industrial heritage. The design phase includes the activation of the programmatic potentials informed by the intermediate (in-between) spaces identified within the site and reflects the meeting of different eras that happens on the ground level, the ‘in between’ space of the investigation.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Borders and Territorie
Centro de Cuentapropismo - Incubating Cuban Entrepreneurship
No full textThe project focused on the design of educational facilities and commercial spaces for Cuba’s emerging micro-entrepreneurs, which are considered by many as the face of Cuba’s growing economic prosperity, and forerunners of change. The aim of the project was to derive a highly contextual proposal rooted on relevant thematic research both in Cuba and abroad
An agricultural practice as a direct threat to the snake-eyed skink Ablepharus kitaibelii (Bibron & Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1833) in central Greece
No full textTerrestrial reptiles are threatened by numerous anthropogenic activities, including agriculture. Many agricultural methods and techniques affect the herpetofauna located in the oldest known tree crops in the Mediterranean Basin, olive trees. For the first time, we present a case of unintentional capture (and killing) of 12 snake-eyed skinks Ablepharus kitaibelii (Bibron & Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1833) on an insect control sticky trap in an olive grove in central Greece. Copyright Apostolos Christopoulos, Panayiotis Pafilis. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
La datation du "Contre Celse" et du "Commentaire sur Matthieu" d’Origène: À propos de quelques hypothèses récentes
No full textInternational audienceIn the last years, two scholars (Panayiotis Tzamalikos and Ronald H. Heine) haveproposed a new dating for Origen’s Against Celsus and Commentary on Matthew. Since theseworks are among the last ones of this author, their hypotheses also imply that Origen’s deathoccurred much later than commonly believed. This paper discusses Tzamalikos’ and Heine’sarguments. A thorough examination will show that they are not strong enough to justifysignificant changes in Origen’s biography: the traditional dating of Against Celsus andCommentary on Matthew (248-249) remains the most likely.
Information about the oppression of the Greeks in Macedonia before the revolution of 1821
No full textNo AbstractThe author points out and comments upon the historical facts on the emotions of the Gieeks of Macedonia, during the Turkish occupation. Those facts are found in a rare French booklet with the title «Aperçu sur les causes de la Révolution de la Grèce pour son indépendance du gouvernement des Musulmans», written by Panayiotis Psatelis Di of Medicine, a young Gieek from Siatista, and printed in Lyon in 1826 after the exodus of Messolongi. This booklet is addressed to the civilized world and explains the reasons for which the Greeks of Macedonia revolted together with their brothers of the South against their oppressors’ tyranny
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