News tagged with human biomechanics
Men Are More Accurate than Women When Hitting a Target with Force in the Dark
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Could it be that men have evolved to be more accurate at hitting a target with a weapon in the dark than women? That’s the surprising question left after a recent small study of human biomechanics conducted ...
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Research has all the right moves
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A juggler and a conductor were among the artists who helped create a device which can retrieve dozens of different movement sequences in a matter of minutes.
Study simulated car crashes involving pregnant women
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Although states are not required to report fetal deaths in accident data, between 300 and 1,000 unborn babies die in car accidents each year. This accident fatality rate is about four times the rate for victims ...
Engineers to create parts of virtual crash test dummy
Dec 11, 2008 |
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You really can learn a lot from a dummy. For decades, automakers have been crashing test dummies to gain insight to how various auto safety systems protect – or fail to protect – people during car accidents. But those dummies ...
Study finds women have thicker skulls
Jan 24, 2008 |
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U.S. and Chinese scientists have determined women have thicker skulls than do men.
Sports technology for para-athletes: Closing the gap
Jan 30, 2009 |
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This issue of Sports Technology, published by Wiley-Blackwell, spotlights recent developments that seek to close the gap between able-bodied athletes and para-athletes, with two published articles highlighting running prosth ...
New research examines commonly used toxin
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Feb 26, 2008 |
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New Research at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Kinesiology suggests that Botulinium type-A toxin (BTX-A) passes easily to surrounding muscles and is more difficult to control once injected than many people suspect. ...
Have you ever seen an elephant... run?
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Aug 18, 2006 |
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If an elephant is thundering towards you at 15mph you are probably not too concerned with the finer points of biomechanics or the thorny question about whether they are truly running or not. But for researchers, ...
Six-tonne T. rex quicker than Becks, say scientists
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Aug 22, 2007 |
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T. rex may have struggled to chase down speeding vehicles as the movie Jurassic Park would have us believe but the world’s most fearsome carnivore was certainly no slouch, research out today suggests.
Study revives Olympic prospects for amputee sprinter
May 16, 2008 |
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A world-renowned team of experts in biomechanics and physiology from six universities, led by Professor Hugh Herr of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, refute scientific claims that the prostheses worn ...
The Evolution of Human Diet
Dec 06, 2006 |
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A University of Arkansas professor’s most recent work addresses the question of how human eating habits have evolved over millions of years.
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