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  • Spatial consumption and risk of lower back disorder during assisted toilet transfers on board an aircraft

    Creator:
    Philbrick, Kenneth Alan
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    A major barrier to air travel for people with disabilities is the general lack of accessible lavatories on board commercial passenger aircraft. A primary reason for this lack of greater accessibility is related to space. To design an airplane lavatory that is accessible, minimizes the risk of injury to both...
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  • Preventing falls from unpredictable balance disturbances

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    Welsh, Lisa R.
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    Falls, particularly those due to slips, constitute a major health risk for older adults. Past research has found that individuals can learn not to fall through repeated exposure to a slipping perturbation. Slips can be unpredictable, however. The goal of this study was to determine whether similar adaptations would occur...
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    Disturbances Abstract approved: Michael J. Pavol Falls, particularly those due to slips, constitute

  • The effects of voluntary step-training on slip recovery

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    Baxter, Josh R.
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    Falls caused by slips are a major health risk to older adults and place a large financial strain on the health care system. Previous research has found that individuals can learn to recover their balance after being exposed to a series of simulated slips. However, training large numbers of older...
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Michael J. Pavol Falls caused by slips are a major health risk to older adults and place

  • Effect of jumping on growing bones : forces during different landings

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    Black, Bradley A.
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    In order to develop a stimulating yet effective school-based program which elicits a positive bone growth response, we need to understand the forces acting on the bones of children during various high-impact activities. One activity found to promote bone growth is drop landings from a height. We determined whether there...
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    Growing Bones: Forces During Different Landings Abstract approved: Michael J. Pavol In order to develop

  • Effects of combining of upper and lower body resistance training on lumbar loading

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    Doran, Elizabeth R.
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    Osteoporotic vertebral fractures are a common and costly public health problem with a high occurrence in older women due to menopausal-onset bone loss. Recent findings suggest that mechanical loading created by upper body resistance training can stimulate bone growth in the lumbar spine, reducing osteoporosis-related bone loss and associated fracture...
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    : Michael J. Pavol Osteoporotic vertebral fractures are a common and costly public health problem

  • Hip loading during the squat exercise

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    Haberly, Gabriel J.
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    Hip fractures have high mortality and morbidity rates after incidence, with osteoporosis being a major risk factor due to the loss of bone mineral density (BMD). Lower-body resistance exercises, such as squats, can provide sufficient loading on the hip to induce osteogenic effects. However, this loading may depend on how...
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    Abstract approved: Michael J. Pavol Hip fractures have high mortality and morbidity rates after

  • An In Vivo Functional Evaluation, in an Avian Model, of Passive Implantable Designs to Restore Hand Function after Spinal Cord Injury

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    Casebier, Justin C.
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    The surgical standard of care to partially restore grasping function after a traumatic spinal cord injury is a reconstructive tendon transfer-surgery that connects all four finger flexors to an expendable wrist extensor. While restorative, this surgery has a fundamental problem; the movement of all four fingers flexors is directly coupled,...
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    after Spinal Cord Injury Abstract approved: Ravi Balasubramanian and Michael J. Pavol The surgical

  • Kinematic characteristics and energy expenditure during manual wheelchair propulsion: a comparison of two stroking techniques in non-experienced users

    Creator:
    Asahara, Sanae
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    Manual wheelchair propulsion is a physiologically stressful and biomechanically inefficient form of locomotion. The repetitious nature of propulsion puts wheelchair uses at high risk for developing upper extremity overuse injuries. Previous kinematic analysis has revealed that wheelchair users employ several distinct stroking techniques. One of the techniques, circular pattern (CP),...
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    teacher. CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS Dr. JoonKoo Yun and Dr. Michael Pavol were involved in designing the

  • Random access machine in secure multi-party computation

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    Hu, Zhangxiang
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    Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a conceptual framework in cryptography. It allows distrusting parties engage in a protocol to perform a computational task while still maintain some secure properties. Most existing approaches are required to interpret functions as a boolean circuit. With the recent state-of-art circuit garbling scheme, the performance...
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    approved: Michael J. Rosulek Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a conceptual framework in

  • Visualization and design systems for road infrastructure

    Creator:
    Esch, Gregory
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    Transportation infrastructure provides a vital service for the functionality of a city. The efficient design of road networks poses an interesting topic in computer science for digital content developers. For civil engineers, the visualization of analysis results on infrastructure both efficiently and intuitively is crucial. The following contributions are made...
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    visualization, I would like to thank Eugene Zhang and Michael Scott. Without Michael, the bridge visualization