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Generación de criterios de diseño para la personalización de ortesis plantares de confort
Get PDFLa presente tesis tiene como objetivo la generación de criterios de diseño para la personalización de ortesis plantares de confort, la cual ha surgido del trabajo desarrollado junto al Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia, motivado por la necesidad de prevenir las patologías podológicas y de mejorar el confort de las personas frente a los ritmos de vida actuales. El sanitario se encuentra cada vez más ante problemas y disconfort de los pies que requieren tan sólo de unas ortesis personalizadas de confort, ya que no se presentan patologías de importancia. Para proporcionar este tratamiento preventivo, el profesional necesita conocimiento y herramientas que le permitan personalizar la solución que mejor se adapte a sus pacientes.
En la actualidad, el tratamiento generalizado para la prevención y la mejora del confort son las plantillas estándar de silicona u otros materiales poliméricos. En los pocos casos en los que se realiza una ortesis personalizada, el proceso es complejo, largo y costoso, ya que se realiza a través de métodos tradicionales.
Para poder desarrollar un servicio de personalización de ortesis confort ha sido necesario, en primer lugar, disponer de criterios de diseño que posibiliten la posterior fabricación de las ortesis. En la actualidad, no existen publicaciones que proporcionen estos criterios de diseño, por lo que el trabajo de investigación se ha centrado principalmente en este objetivo. Adicionalmente, y para conseguir este objetivo, ha sido necesario poner a punto diferentes procedimientos y tecnologías, que resultarán en la obtención de protocolos que nos ayuden en las exploraciones anatómicas, para el análisis de la movilidad articular, la geometría y la morfología podal. En concreto:
1. Se ha desarrollado un protocolo de exploración clínica en estático y otro en dinámico para ver el comportamiento del miembro inferior en marcha, y así descartar a los usuarios que presente patologías.
2. Se ha realizado un protocolo de toma de medidas digitales con el escáner 3D.
Los datos obtenidos mediante estos procedimientos han sido analizados y comparados para la realización de tablas antropométricas, que junto a las bases de datos de las que dispone el IBV han permitido desarrollar los criterios de diseño iníciales de la ortesis plantar. A partir de estos criterios iníciales se planteó una experimentación con 50 usuarios para su validación y mejora. Terminada la fase de experimentación, se han obtenido los criterios geométricos y la definición de las ortesis definitivas, lo que nos da pie a desarrollar los criterios finales.
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Posteriormente, se ha realizado una validación final a través del estudio del funcionamiento de las ortesis plantares de confort y la satisfacción de los usuarios respecto al complejo ortesis-pie, y así se han obtenido las conclusiones del estudio.This thesis aims to generate design criteria for customizing comfort insoles, which has emerged from the work done by the Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia, motivated by the need to prevent the podiatric pathologies and improve comfort people against the current pace of life. The health is increasingly faced with problems and discomfort of the feet requiring only comfort of a custom brace, as no major pathologies are presented. To provide this preventive treatment, the professional needs knowledge and tools that allow you to customize the solution that best suits their patients.
Currently, the widespread treatment for prevention and improvement of comfort are the standard templates silicone or other polymer materials. In the few cases in which a custom orthotic is made, the process is complex, time consuming and expensive, since it is performed through traditional methods.
To develop a customization service orthotic comfort it was necessary, first, to have design criteria that allow the subsequent manufacture of insoles. Currently, there are no publications that provide these design criteria, so the research has mainly focused on this objective. In addition, and to achieve this goal, it has been necessary to develop different procedures and technologies that result in the production of protocols that help us on the anatomical scans, for analysis of joint mobility, geometry and foot morphology. Specific:
1. It has developed a protocol of clinical examination in static and other dynamic to see the behavior of the lower limb in place, and so that users discard this pathology.
2. There has been a protocol making digital measurements with the 3D scanner.
The data obtained by these methods have been analyzed and compared to the performance of anthropometric tables, which together with the databases available to the IBV have helped develop the initial design criteria plantar orthotics. From these initial criteria experimentation with 50 users for validation and improvement was raised. After the testing phase have been obtained geometric criteria and defining the final brace, which leads us to develop the final criteria.
Subsequently, there has been a final validation by studying the functioning of insoles comfort and user satisfaction regarding the brace-foot complex, and thus obtain the study's findings.La present tesi té com a objectiu la generació de criteris de disseny per a la personalització d'ortesis plantars de confort, la qual ha sorgit del treball desenvolupat al costat del Institut de Biomecànica de València, motivat per la necessitat de prevenir les patologies podològiques i de millorar el confort de les persones enfront dels ritmes de vida actuals. El sanitari es troba cada vegada més davant problemes i desconfort dels peus que requereixen tan sols d'unes ortesis personalitzades de confort, ja que no es presenten patologies d'importància. Per proporcionar aquest tractament preventiu, el professional necessita coneixement i eines que li permetin personalitzar la solució que millor s'adapti a les seves pacients.
En l'actualitat, el tractament generalitzat per a la prevenció i la millora del confort són les plantilles estàndard de silicona o altres materials polimèrics. En els pocs casos en què es realitza una ortesis personalitzada, el procés és complex, llarg i costós, ja que es realitza a través de mètodes tradicionals.
Per poder desenvolupar un servei de personalització d'ortesis confort ha estat necessari, en primer lloc, disposar de criteris de disseny que possibilitin la posterior fabricació de les ortesis. En l'actualitat, no hi ha publicacions que proporcionin aquests criteris de disseny, de manera que el treball de recerca s'ha centrat principalment en aquest objectiu. Addicionalment, i per aconseguir aquest objectiu, ha calgut posar a punt diferents procediments i tecnologies, que resultaran en l'obtenció de protocols que ens ajudin en les exploracions anatòmiques, per a l'anàlisi de la mobilitat articular, la geometria i la morfologia podal. En concret:
1. S'ha desenvolupat un protocol d'exploració clínica en estàtic i un altre en dinàmic per veure el comportament del membre inferior en marxa, i així descartar els usuaris que presenti patologies.
2. S'ha realitzat un protocol de presa de mesures digitals amb l'escàner 3D.
Les dades obtingudes mitjançant aquests procediments han estat analitzats i comparats per a la realització de taules antropomètriques, que al costat de les bases de dades de què disposa l'IBV han permès desenvolupar els criteris de disseny inicials de l'ortesi plantar. A partir d'aquests criteris inicials es va plantejar 'una experimentació amb 50 usuaris per a la seva validació i millora. Acabada la fase d'experimentació s'han obtingut els criteris geomètrics i la definició de les ortesis definitives, el que ens dóna peu a desenvolupar els criteris finals.
Posteriorment, s'ha realitzat una validació final a través de l'estudi del funcionament de les ortesis plantars de confort i la satisfacció dels usuaris respecte al complex ortesis-peu, i així s'han obtingut les conclusions de l'estudi.PodologíaPrograma Oficial de Doctorado en Investigación y Desarroll
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
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koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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