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The bioenergetics of walking and running in space suits
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Space-suited activity is critical for human spaceflight, and is synonymous with human planetary exploration. Space suits impose kinematic and kinetic boundary conditions that affect movement and locomotion, and in doing ...
Role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors in mechanisms of rejection in heart transplantation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) belong to a nuclear receptor superfamily; two major isoforms, PPARα and PPAR[gamma], are primarily involved in lipid and glucose homeostasis. However, evidence also ...
Stability of proteins within biodegradable microspheres
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
In the past decade, biodegradable polymers have become the materials of choice for a variety of biomaterials applications. In particular, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) microspheres have been extensively studied for ...
A shoe-integrated sensor system for wireless gait analysis and real-time therapeutic feedback
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Clinical gait analysis currently involves either an expensive analysis in a motion laboratory, using highly accurate, if cumbersome, kinematic systems, or a qualitative analysis with a physician or physical therapist making ...
Influence of spatial cues on the identification and the localization of objects in the auditory foreground
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
The ability to form auditory objects is important in the natural environment where sounds arriving at our ears are a resultant of all spectro-temporal components that may have arisen from different auditory events. It has ...