Kicking in Australian Football (AF) has been reported as the most important skill of the game. Nevertheless, no study has investigated kicking with IMU units. These units could be used to gain kicking data through an easy and assessable way. The purpose of this study was to analyse a kick executed by …

De doelstelling van dit onderzoek was het creëren van de normaalwaarden voor kinematica en spieractiviteit van de onderste extremiteit voor kinderen en volwassenen op zowel comfortabele loopsnelheid als een ±20% lagere en ±20% hogere snelheid dan comfortabel. Daarnaast was een doelstelling het ontwikkelen …

PURPOSE: In this prospective study, the changes in kinetics and kinematics of gait and clinical outcomes after a varus osteotomy (tibial, femoral or double osteotomy) in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee and a valgus leg alignment were analysed and compared to healthy subjects. METHODS: Twelve …

A growing body of evidence indicates that natural environments can positively influence people. This study investigated whether the use of motion nature projection in computed tomography (CT) imaging rooms is effective in mitigating psycho-physiological anxiety (vs. no intervention) using a quasirandomized …

Patients with neck pain have a significantly decreased aCROM compared with persons without neck pain, and patients with WADs have less aCROM than those with nontraumatic neck pain.

This project was done as part of EE5 (5th semester, 3rd year internship) of Electrical and Electronic Engineering program of Fontys University of Applied Sciences, the internship project was done at Mechatronics department within Fontys Hogeschool Engineering. The project was done during first semester …

This research is performed to give an advice for the current problem of Canada Feeder Lines regarding the purifier installation. This research has given an answer to the following main question: ‘’What is the best way to improve the cost-effectivity of the purifier installation on board of a 10.000 DWT …

The amount of money allocated to development work has been decreasing globally. Due to the looming financial crisis, many government institutions that use to allocate resources to NGOs involved in development work have significantly reduced. This research offers critical suggestions on ways to improve …

Doel: Deze studie heeft als doel om de kortetermijneffecten van Continious Passive Motion (CPM) op de pijnbeleving, bewegingsuitslag en bewegingsangst bij patiënten met een totale knieprothese (TKP) tussen de 40 en 85 jaar op dag één postoperatief (post-OK), op dag twee post-OK en na twee weken post-OK …

Precast concrete structures are preferred for facilities with large open areas due to easiness in construction. Such structures are typically composed of individual columns and long-span beams, and are quite flexible and of limited redundancy. In this paper, nonlinear dynamic analyses of a typical such …