The twenty-one study participants were folks with knee osteoarthritis between 65 and 75-years-old. Nine men, 12 women. Average baseline weight was 194 lb (88 kg). The 21 participants were randomly assigned to one of three diets they would follow for 12 weeks: L0w-carb diet group (8 part...
(i.e., to consider statistical properties and participant burden) using the D-efficient criterion and NGene software29. We created a design of 24 choice tasks and divided these into two blocks of 12 to limit cognitive burden following good research practice guidelines14. We randomly presented ...
Section III gives the Lyapunov stability analysis of system. Section IV presents the implementation using Opensim simulations. Section V presents extensive simulations. Discussions and conclusion are presented in Section VI. II Method Our proposed RL tracking control is built upon the finite state ...
Participants were randomly assigned to either the surgery (N = 75, age mean: 54, SD:5) or non-surgery (N = 75, age mean: 54, SD:6) group. Patient baseline characteristics and OA severity according to the Kellgren–Lawrence are presented in Table I. Eleven patients had Kellgren–Lawrence...
All orthopaedic surgeons were randomised into two groups, both groups filled out a different version of a case vignette (version A or B, see below). Randomisation lists were generated randomly by a computer. Questionnaire The web-based survey used in this study was partially based on ...
With- in the groups a computer programme (Pocock 1983) based on a minimisation method was used to randomly allocate patients to one of the two polyethylene inserts. This allocation was based on age, (<70, 70 years), gender (male, female), walking distance (<500 m, 500 m), localisation...
binding between the fibers, so they setb/ks=τ1+τ2[CN]KM+[CN], whereτ1is the value of the time constant in the absence of bound cross-bridges andτ2is the additional frictional component due to the cross-bridge binding. Using this forb/ksand replacingksBwith a new constantA, gives...
During the training of the CNN, we used random noise addition, random rotation ±5 degrees, random cropping of the original 310 × 310 pixels image to 300 × 300 pixels (135 × 135 mm) and also random gamma correction. These data augmentations were performed randomly on...
Objective: To compare the clinical efficacy differences of acupotomy therapy guided by the meridian sinew theory and acupotomy therapy guided by the anatomy theory of western medicine in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis.Methods: Sixty-three patients were randomly divided into the acupotomy group of...
Methods: Sixty-three patients were randomly divided into the acupotomy group of the meridian sinew theory (Group A, n=32) and the acupotomy group of the anatomy theory (Group B, n=31). For Group A, with positive reaction points such as the tenderness points of three yang meridians and ...