CAN MICROPROCESSOR KNEES REDUCE THE DISPARITY IN TRIPS AND FALLS RISKS BETWEEN ABOVE AND BELOW KNEE PROSTHESIS USERS?

Can microprocessor knees reduce the disparity in trips and falls risks between above and below knee prosthesis users?

While all lower limb prosthesis walkers have a high risk of tripping and/or falling, above knee prosthesis users are reported to fall more frequently.Recognising this, engineers designed microprocessor knees (MPK) to help mitigate these risks, but to what extent these devices reduce this disparity between above and below knee users is unclear.A ser

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Development of a Molecular Snail Xenomonitoring Assay to Detect Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma bovis Infections in their Bulinus Snail Hosts

Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease of medical and veterinary importance, transmitted through specific freshwater snail intermediate hosts, is targeted for elimination in several endemic regions in sub-Saharan Africa.Multi-disciplinary methods are required for both Handheld Sweeper human and environmental diagnostics to certify schistosom

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DOA Estimation for Generalized Three Dimensional Coprime Arrays: A Fast-Convergence Quadrilinear Decomposition Algorithm

In this paper, we construct the a-vitamin generalized 3-D coprime array (G-TDCA) configuration, which consists of two 2-D uniform subarrays, by selecting three pairs of coprime integers to obtain the extension of inter-element spacing.Meanwhile, we derive the analytical expression of Cramer-Rao bound for G-TDCA and verify that G-TDCA outperforms th

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