The Sixth All Africa Games were held in Zimbabwe in September 1995.A voluntary physiotherapy service was provided to guest athletes.Data was gathered relating to onset, mechanism, region and management of injuries.During the 10-day period of the games, 541 treatments were performed on 258 guest athletes.The onset of injury in 35.3% of cases was pri
This paper delves into the examination of indoor comfort in classroom environments and its interplay with ventilation on human Phone Board Connector wellbeing in scenarios of varying indoor carbon dioxide concentrations.The assessment of these parameters was done according to the provisions outlined in the Spanish national Regulation of Thermal Ins
The assessment of the Metop-SG microwave imager radiometric performance is based on a complete set of thermal vacuum tests.Such an extensive experimental campaign requires the development of large calibration targets (black bodies) with controlled systematics and low residual uncertainties.The significant size of such targets, which are based on py
We evaluated the effects of muscle fatigue on hand-tracking performance in young adults.Differences were quantified between wrist flexion and extension fatigability, and between males and females.Participants were evaluated on their ability to trace a pattern using a 3-degrees-of-freedom robotic manipulandum before (baseline) and after (0, 1, 2, 4,
Francesco Faraldi,1 Vincenzo Papa,2 Debora Santoro,2 Daria Rasà,2 Annamaria L Mazza,2 Maria M Rabbione,1 Simona Russo21Department of Ophthalmology III, Presidio Ospedaliero Oftalmico, Torino, Italy; 2SIFI SpA, Catania, ItalyPurpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of an ophthalmic gel containing sodium hyaluronate an