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Purposes: While lumbar multifidus (MF) muscle alterations are linked to low back pain (LBP), the structure-function relationship is not fully understood. This study aims to evaluate the relationship between fatty degeneration of the lumbar MF muscle and its function in individuals with and without LBP. Methods: The study included 25 participants with chr ...

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Magnetorheological (MR) fluid (MRF) dampers, serving as fail-safe semi-active devices, exhibit nonlinear hysteresis characteristics, emphasizing the necessity for accurate modeling to formulate effective control strategies in smart systems. This paper introduces a novel stop operator-based Prandtl-Ishlinskii (PI) model, featuring a reduced parameter set ( ...

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Author(s): Roshanfar M; Taki S; Sayadi A; Cecere R; Dargahi J; Hooshiar A;

Soft robots have gained popularity, especially in intraluminal applications, because their soft bodies make them safer for surgical interventions than flexures with rigid backbones. This study investigates a pressure-regulating stiffness tendon-driven soft robot and provides a continuum mechanics model for it towards using that in adaptive stiffness appli ...

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Author(s): Badji A; de la Colina AN; Boshkovski T; Sabra D; Karakuzu A; Robitaille-Grou MC; Gros C; Joubert S; Bherer L; Lamarre-Cliche M; Stikov N; Gauthier CJ; Cohen-Adad J; Girouard H;

Background: Vascular risk factors such as arterial stiffness play an important role in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), presumably due to the emergence of white matter lesions. However, the impact of arterial stiffness to white matter structure involved in the etiology of AD, includ ...

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