Sentences with phrase «prostheses more»

«Understanding the problem is an important step in finding ways to make these prostheses more reliable.»

Early interpretation of grip planning, including accounting for the distinctive form that plans take in the context of different object, could allow a brain computer interface decoder to get a motion command to a prosthesis more quickly and accurately with information about what is to be gripped, Vargas - Irwin said.

Not exact matches

Even more notably, with its sponsors and broad fan following, the league has so transformed public attitudes that many disabled Cambodians, athletic and not, now wear shorts to show off their prostheses.

The more he plays, the more he risks damaging the prosthesis.

Here's the relevant passage (but see the source for more on the research the committee looked at): «Breastfeeding outcomes may be affected by the use of feeding plates (which obturate some of the cleft and attempt to «normalize» the oral cavity for feeding) 46 or presurgical orthopedics (prosthesis to reposition the cleft segments prior to surgery).

This research sets the groundwork for developing a new generation of more precise, bidirectional neural prostheses.

So the development of a system that integrates the movement of the prosthesis with the movement of the user is «substantially more important with a robotic leg,» according to the authors.

In March Grabowski, Kram and research associate Paolo Taboga reported in The Journal of Experimental Biologythat athletes with a left leg prosthesis are at a disadvantage in track events of 200 meters or more.

Because the new devices are substantially more complex than standard prostheses, the clinicians will need additional training in robotics, the authors point out.

Waite hopes the byssus structures could reveal a successful formula for a stronger, more flexible tendon to serve as a prosthesis in humans.

Before then, the researchers need to put a few finishing touches to the prosthesis, including fitting it more closely to the muscle signals from Barnes's arm.

«For example, the algorithm could provide more power to a prosthesis when a patient carries a heavy suitcase through an airport,» Huang says.

For more than 600 years, patients with amputations above the knee received a prosthesis that fit over the skin and soft tissue of the amputation stump.

New research examines exactly what happens when these technologies fail, with the goal of developing a new generation of more robust powered prostheses.

They have built - in springs that allow the ankle to rebound after a step, but with no more energy than the wearer applied to the prosthesis.

«The ultimate goal of this research is to provide the individual with a prosthesis that more easily and more successfully meets his or her needs for movement and walking,» Dr. Murphy notes of the study.

The repair and regeneration of these nerves could potentially enable the development of more sophisticated prostheses that could interface with these nerves, allowing for greater control.

«The prosthesis is made of a combination of cobalt - chrome and titanium and has a three - piece head that allows for more range of motion and greater stability.

Still, most amputees yearn for a prosthesis that is far more intimate with the body.

While Aszmann's approach uses a grafted muscle to relay signals from the brain to a prosthesis, others are taking a more direct route, reading brain waves directly and using them to control the hand.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's robotic prosthesis looks like something out of medieval times — a hand clad in chain mail more appropriate for wielding a broadsword than a mug of coffee.

Additionally, more than 1100 patients have consented to participate in a postmortem retrieval program, allowing for the retrieval of their joint prostheses in surrounding bone and the collection of various organ samples at the time of their death.

In studies of cell lines from more than 20 Friedreich's patients, the molecular prosthesis restored expression of the frataxin protein.

«Interface systems, or, more in general, neuronal prostheses, that enable an effective re-establishment of these connections are under active investigation» explain Laura Ballerini (SISSA) and Maurizio Prato (UniTS - CIC BiomaGUNE), coordinating the research project.

Moreover, in children, implanted heart valve prostheses need to be replaced even more often as they can not grow with the child.

While grain is evident in every shot, it's not a distraction for the most part, and flesh tones seem pretty good — even the area around Martin's prosthesis, though the seams are generally more obvious in HiDef.

Which makes it more difficult to fit a peg leg, or a prosthesis as the doctors insisted on calling it, though Jim had refused one anyhow.

But then, according to Paul Virilio, the more devices we have, the more prostheses, the more our bodies become immobilized.