Article: Inertia properties of body segments from MRI data

Article: Comparison of total lipid and fatty acid compositions of ...
The Texas Journal of Science;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... prepared from whole body and selected body segments (head, thorax and abdomen) of adults ... the highest level of total lipid in body segments. Predominant fatty acid components ... fractions in the whole body and three body segments were C16:0, C18:1n-9 and C18 ...

Article: Trunk-Assisted Prehension: Specification of Body ...
Journal of Motor Behavior;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... cost-based model that selects the body segments involved in a movement and determines ... during the task. In other words, body segments that travel farther, faster, or both ... the basis of the model suggest that body segments with greater mass would be more involved ...

Article: Finding appropriate relations among body segments ...
Pain & Central Nervous System Week;  February 10, 2003 ;     497 words ... ... concluded: "For the central nervous system the problem of standing can be cast in terms of finding appropriate relations among body segments to maintain the desired position of the body as a whole with respect to the environment. In this review, we evaluate some ...

Article: 787 surge takes Boeing past Airbus: as Airbus stumbles, its US ...
Interavia Business & Technology;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...After a year marked by blunders and upheavals in Toulouse, it came as no surprise that in 2006, for the first time since 2001, Boeing out-performed Airbus in numbers of aircraft ordered during the calendar year. With gross orders for 1,058 aircraft, Boeing captured a market share of 56% (measured

Article: Relationship between standing posture and stability.
Physical Therapy;  May 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... the rotational and translational positions of adjoining body segments and their orientation relative to gravity.[2,3] We ... COG without an alteration of the body's translational inertia properties.[3] In quiet standing, the whole-body COG is in ...

Article: New guidance control and dynamics study results from New Mexico ...
Robotics & Machine Learning;  December 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... robotics-based method for on-orbit identification of inertia properties of spacecraft. The method makes use of an onboard robotic ... Guidance Control and Dynamics (On-Orbit Identification of Inertia Properties of Spacecraft Using a Robotic Arm. Journal of Guidance ...

Article: Modal Analysis Versus Finite-Element Analysis
Sound and Vibration;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... in the model with a stiffness matrix, which is generated by the FEA program. For a dynamic simulation, the inertia properties are also required, which are modeled with a mass matrix. When an FEA model contains both mass and stiffness ...