An Innovative Project of a Bionic Robot for Social Applications in Felinotherapy

The paper describes an innovative design of a bionic robot for applications in felinotherapy supporting hospital and home psychotherapeutic treatment of bedridden children and adults. The project was engineered by biomimicrating a biological cat, reaching its robotic model. Particular attention in this process was devoted to capturing the essence of feline motorics behavior and the possibility of mapping them in a mechatronic model. The geometry, kinematics and kinetics of this model were analyzed, creating assumptions for its practical implementation in the real mechanism of cat skeleton movement. The used software used the topology of elements in Autodesk Fusion 360 Simulation workspace by performing the critical elements of the mechatronic model in print using SLS technology. The work was also supported by a graphical simulation in the PyBullet environment.

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Effects of body mass and sex on kinematics and kinetics of the lower extremity during stair ascent and descent in older adults

Sports Medicine and Health Science ◽

10.1016/j.smhs.2021.06.001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Nok-Hin Law ◽

Jing Xian Li ◽

Nok-Yeung Law ◽

Daniel Varin ◽

Mario Lamontagne

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Lower Extremity ◽

Body Mass ◽

Stair Ascent ◽

Kinetics Of ◽

Kinematics And Kinetics

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Kinematics and kinetics of the bench-press and bench-pull exercises in a strength-trained sporting population

Sports Biomechanics ◽

10.1080/14763140903229484 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 245-254 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Simon N. Pearson ◽

John B. Cronin ◽

Patria A. Hume ◽

David Slyfield

Keyword(s):

Bench Press ◽

Kinetics Of ◽

Kinematics And Kinetics

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A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE OFFER AS FOUND IN AMERICAN MOVIES

Lexicon ◽

10.22146/lexicon.v2i1.5320 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Musadad Musadad

Keyword(s):

Speech Act ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Practical Implementation ◽

English Learning ◽

The Real ◽

English Grammar ◽

Utterance Length ◽

American Movies ◽

The Way

The offer is one form of speech act realizations. Making offer in English belongs to a real example of communicative English learning for it requires practical implementation in some ways. Accordingly, one should not only comprehend the offer in English from what is stated in English grammar books, but also from certain situation providing imaginary life aspects as can be found in the real ones. Such a situation, which is later on called as context, can be displayed through American movies. This study found interesting features in the way the subjects manipulate and manage offers intended to their hearers. The features are mainly noted in three aspects which are utterance length indicating offer (offer-sequence), speech act classification indicating offer, and the most frequently used semantic formulae in accordance with the differences of age, familiarity, and status.

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