Sentences with phrase «gait for»

The desired gait for a Spinone in the field is an extended trot, with intermittent galloping strides.

• Check if your pet is overweight or underweight • Check for signs of infection / disease of the skin, ears, and teeth • Check for lumps and / or bumps on the skin that may potentially be malignant • Evaluate the heart for murmurs • Educate on common clinical signs of disease that your pet may already be experiencing • «Palpate» or feel the belly to check for any pain • Evaluate the eyes for any disease • Evaluate your pet's gait for any limping

Assess his gait for any abnormalities.

A Herding dog should move as though it could cover ground at a steady gait for long periods of time and never miss a beat or break down.

We also observe your pet's gait for developmental issues.

Horse «soring» is the deliberate infliction of pain on horses» legs and hooves in order to exaggerate their high - stepping gait for competitions.

This workshop will focus on teaching your dog how to gait for the show ring, how to get the best movement from your dog, the different factors that affect gait and how to problem solve gait issues.

In all instances, the automatic transmission shifts smoothly, with less performance - focused modes giving the car a more relaxed gait for everyday conditions.

Hi - I am interested in your advice because I also feel it seems counter-intuitive to «train» your gait using orthotics when you have been naturally walking / running with your own gait for your entire life.

He uses genetic algorithms to evolve efficient gaits for robots on Earth.

Not exact matches

The new Burnaby store, for example, has a treadmill with high - speed cameras that can measure a customer's running gait and then recommend the proper shoe.

«It's imperative for the high - speed, fast decision - making athletes to see natural gaits of other players in VR.

If the human body were designed by an omniscient and omnipotent being surely it would not have made such a poor job of the laryngeal nerve in mammals, the spine not being optimal for bi-pedal gait, the blind spot caused by the optic nerve, etc. etc..

His daughter Jolie's mare, My My, had won the five - gaited World's Grand Championship for the third consecutive time, setting a record for mares.

The stables» Flight Time was the winner of the gaited stake for 3 - year - olds.

With all that going for him, the strut is back in McIlroy's gait if not in his words.

Kenichi Ito of Japan, who says he spent nine years developing his technique, modeled on the gait of the African patas monkey, set a world record (17.47 seconds) for running 100 meters on all fours.

Clark took Tamerlane out for an early warmup some three hours before the Futurity, and as the trainer guided his horse onto the track he apologized to bystanders for the colt's gait, saying, «You don't want to watch him warm up.

The slow gait is hardest for horse, most comfortable for rider.

«Out west the sport has a different image,» says Gary Gait, star attackman with the NLL's Colorado Mammoth, whose from - behind - the - net Air Gait slam dunk for Syracuse during the 1988 NCAA tournament remains the most famous shot in lacrosse.

Paul provides therapy for — but not limited to — orthopedic injuries, post op rehab, offers video gait analysis, vestibular / vertigo rehab, orthotic fabrication, TMJ, headaches, spinal rehab, manual / manipulative therapy, trigger point dry needling, ASTYM, biofeedback and pelvic floor / women's health.

It can be upsetting to see your child develop an abnormal gait, but for most toddlers with in - toeing or out - toeing, it's usually nothing to worry about.

Pediatric rehabilitation, spasticity / tone evaluation and treatment, long - term care of chronically impaired children, transition of disabled children to adult services, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, orthotics for gait disorders, pediatric orthotics

The slats for such gaits should be no greater than 3 1/2 inches between two slats so baby doesn't get his head stuck in the slats.

That is the real tragedy, for though ARG is proudly Yoruba — and correctly and unapologetically so — its reasoned mien, since it broke away, tended to shun the supremacist gait of its pristine elder cousin.

Using a set of simple rules for moving and two knifelike feet, a robot in Germany has learned not only how to walk with a remarkably human gait but also how to ascend a ramp.

Nevertheless, a few bones found at the same site in central Australia indicate that the earliest kangaroos already possessed some key adaptations for hopping gaits,» said Dr Kear.

Researchers from the University of Houston have shown for the first time that the use of a brain - computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover the ability to walk after stroke, some spinal cord injuries and certain other gait disabilities.

Sangeetha Madhavan and Tai Tri Nguyen demonstrate gait training, part of their study of improving rehab for people recovering from stroke.

Blame «Night of the Living Dead» for this, but many people mistakenly think that zombies are nocturnal, going around their business of walking around town with stilted gaits, looking for people whose brains they can eat, only at night.

That's why Bill Sellers, a computational zoologist at the University of Manchester, UK, has developed a new technique for simulating dinosaur movement and working out which gaits they most likely used.

According to research published today in the journal Nature, this graceless gait is the most efficient way for penguins to move around on terra firma.

While dogs are able to swim, it is not as natural for them as walking and other terrestrial gaits.

«Clearly, we recognize people by many traits — for example their height or their gait — but our findings argue that the face is the predominant way we recognize people,» Sheehan said.

At least for now, the theory of energy minimization is coming out on top, suggesting that the gaits that feel the most «natural» to us are the ones that require the least amount of energy at certain speeds.

But the simulations also showed that the typical tripod gait was still the best way for fruit flies and cockroaches to maneuver over uneven surfaces and climb — good news for anyone worried about fast - evolving bugs.

The prediction: The fly would be speediest with a two - legged gait, particularly if it got rid of the sticky pads on the tips of its legs that are used for climbing.

After studying casts of the Laetoli prints for decades, scientists decided that A. afarensis, though a primitive hominin, walked with a surprisingly modern gait that was not like an ape's.

Scythian horses did not carry the mutation responsible for alternate gaits, and as a consequence, were not natural amblers.

For horses around the world, the same genetic mutation — bred into the horses by humans — underlies these additional gaits, researchers report in the March issue of Animal Genetics.

At the time, scientists studying Icelandic horses known for a special gait discovered that they, as well as American Standardbred horses used in harness racing, share a somewhat shortened version of a gene called DMRT3.

The Vikings recognised the value of the gaited horses and preferentially selected for this trait — thereby laying the foundation for the worldwide distribution,» explains Arne Ludwig, geneticist at the IZW.

Yet, while scientists have identified several genes that confer specific traits in these species that humans have bred or selected for, such as a special gait in horses, these «are not critical for domestication,» says Leif Andersson, a geneticist at Uppsala University in Sweden.

In contrast, no European (Scandinavia included) or Asian horse of the same period carrying the mutation for the alternative gaits was found.

Historic sagas also suggest that Icelandic horses exhibited the ability for alternative gaits at a very early stage.

That's enough info for the robot to change its gait — without using a lot of «brain» power.

Now, a study by an international research team under the direction of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin revealed that these gaited horses most likely originated in the 9th century medieval England.

The high frequency of the mutation for gaitedness in the early Icelandic horses indicates that the Icelandic settlers preferably bred gaited horses — apparently the comfortable gaits proved to be particularly suitable for long distance travel through rough terrain.

Now, the researchers have looked for this version, called gait keeper, in 4396 horses from 141 breeds from around the world.

Some horses have special gaits, which are more comfortable for the rider than walk, trot or gallop.