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Biomechanics And Motor Control Of Human Movement

Objective
To present the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS) Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Parkinson9s disease.
Background
Although several diagnostic criteria for Parkinson9s disease have been proposed, none have been officially adopted by an official Parkinson society. Moreover, the commonest-used criteria, the UK brain bank, were created more than 25 years ago. In recognition of the lack of standard criteria, the MDS initiated a task force to design new diagnostic criteria for clinical Parkinson9s disease.
Methods/Results
The MDS-PD Criteria are intended for use in clinical research, but may also be used to guide clinical diagnosis. The benchmark is expert clinical diagnosis; the criteria aim to systematize the diagnostic process, to make it reproducible across centers and applicable by clinicians with less expertise. Although motor abnormalities remain central, there is increasing recognition of non-motor manifestations; these are incorporated into both the current criteria and particularly into separate criteria for prodromal PD. Similar to previous criteria, the MDS-PD Criteria retain motor parkinsonism as the core disease feature, defined as bradykinesia plus rest tremor and/or rigidity. Explicit instructions for defining these cardinal features are included. After documentation of parkinsonism, determination of PD as the cause of parkinsonism relies upon three categories of diagnostic features; absolute exclusion criteria (which rule out PD), red flags (which must be counterbalanced by additional supportive criteria to allow diagnosis of PD), and supportive criteria (positive features that increase confidence of PD diagnosis). Two levels of certainty are delineated: Clinically-established PD (maximizing specificity at the expense of reduced sensitivity), and Probable PD (which balances sensitivity and specificity).
Conclusion
The MDS criteria retain elements proven valuable in previous criteria and omit aspects that are no longer justified, thereby encapsulating diagnosis according to current knowledge. As understanding of PD expands, criteria will need continuous revision to accommodate these advances. Disclosure: Dr. Postuma has received personal compensation for activities with Roche Diagnostics Corporation and Biotie Therapies. Dr. Berg has received research support from Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), the German Parkinson Association and Novartis GmbH.

MDS Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Parkinson's Disease (S19.001)

For the statistical consultant working with social science researchers the estimation of reliability and validity is a task frequently encountered. Measurement issues differ in the social sciences in that they are related to the quantification of abstract, intangible and unobservable constructs. In many instances, then, the meaning of quantities is only inferred. Let us begin by a general description of the paradigm that we are dealing with. Most concepts in the behavioral sciences have meaning within the context of the theory that they are a part of. Each concept, thus, has an operational definition which is governed by the overarching theory. If a concept is involved in the testing of hypothesis to support the theory it has to be measured. So the first decision that the research is faced with is \" how shall the concept be measured? \" That is the type of measure. At a very broad level the type of measure can be observational, self-report, interview, etc. These types ultimately take shape of a more specific form like observation of ongoing activity, observing video-taped events, self-report measures like questionnaires that can be open-ended or close-ended, Likert-type scales, interviews that are structured, semi-structured or unstructured and open-ended or close-ended. Needless to say, each type of measure has specific types of issues that need to be addressed to make the measurement meaningful, accurate, and efficient. Another important feature is the population for which the measure is intended. This decision is not entirely dependent on the theoretical paradigm but more to the immediate research question at hand. 6/14/2016 2 A third point that needs mentioning is the purpose of the scale or measure. What is it that the researcher wants to do with the measure? Is it developed for a specific study or is it developed with the anticipation of extensive use with similar populations? Once some of these decisions are made and a measure is developed, which is a careful and tedious process, the relevant questions to raise are \" how do we know that we are indeed measuring what we want to measure? \" since the construct that we are measuring is abstract, and \" can we be sure that if we repeated the measurement we will get the same result? \". The first question is related to validity and second to reliability. Validity and reliability are two important characteristics of behavioral measure and are referred to as …

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Validity and reliability.

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Basic Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System

In modern manufacturing systems and industries, more and more research efforts have been made in developing effective machine health monitoring systems. Among various machine health monitoring approaches, data-driven methods are gaining in popularity due to the development of advanced sensing and data analytic techniques. However, considering the noise, varying length and irregular sampling behind sensory data, this kind of sequential data cannot be fed into classiﬁcation and regression models directly. Therefore, previous work focuses on feature extraction/fusion methods requiring expensive human labor and high quality expert knowledge. With the development of deep learning methods in the last few years, which redeﬁne representation learning from raw data, a deep neural network structure named Convolutional Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory networks (CBLSTM) has been designed here to address raw sensory data. CBLSTM ﬁrstly uses CNN to extract local features that are robust and informative from the sequential input. Then, bi-directional LSTM is introduced to encode temporal information. Long Short-Term Memory networks(LSTMs) are able to capture long-term dependencies and model sequential data, and the bi-directional structure enables the capture of past and future contexts. Stacked, fully-connected layers and the linear regression layer are built on top of bi-directional LSTMs to predict the target value. Here, a real-life tool wear test is introduced, and our proposed CBLSTM is able to predict the actual tool wear based on raw sensory data. The experimental results have shown that our model is able to outperform several state-of-the-art baseline methods.

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Learning to Monitor Machine Health with Convolutional Bi-Directional LSTM Networks.

The aim of this paper is to characterize dielectric properties of polylactic acid, one of the most commonly used materials for 3D-printing, at microwave frequencies, specifically at X-band. The knowledge of the complex permittivity of this plastic material is important for many applications. The manufacturing process of the printed object also requires to investigate the possible material anisotropy. Moreover, using polylactic acid doped with carbon nanotubes it is possible to manufacture conductive materials that can be used to realize electronic devices and microwave components. 3D-printed samples, based on the polylactic acid filament and polylactic acid filament doped with carbon nanotubes, were designed and manufactured by fused deposition modeling along three different axes, in order to characterize the material and examine also its possible anisotropic effect at microwave frequencies. Complex permittivity results were obtained from the scattering parameter data using the transmission line method and a suitable measurement model.

Microwave Characterization of 3D Printed PLA and PLA/CNT Composites

Prof. Paolo Cappa passed away on 26 August 2016, at the age of 59, after a long and courageous fight against cancer. Paolo Cappa was a Professor in Mechanical and Thermal Measurements and Experimental Biomechanics in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome, where he had also served as the Head of the Department, and a Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of New York University Tandon School of Engineering. During his intense, yet short, career, he made several significant scientific contributions within the discipline of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements, pioneering fundamental applications to Biomechanics. He co-founded the Motion Analysis and Robotics Laboratory (MARLab) within the Neurorehabilitation Division of IRCCS Pediatric Hospital “Bambino Gesu”, in Rome, to fuel transitional research from the laboratory to clinical practice. Through collaboration with neurologists and physiatrists at MARLab, Prof. Cappa led the development of a powerful array of novel mechanical solutions to wearable robotics for pediatric patients, addressing dramatic needs for children’s health and contributing to the training of an entire generation of Mechanical Engineering students.

In Memoriam: Paolo Cappa

Deep brain stimulation and motor synergies in Parkinson’s disease

Interest in tactile sensing technologies is advancing due to the growing adoption of robots in daily life activities. Human-machine interaction has thus to be safe, and collaborative robotics is becoming increasingly important. The present work features the design, development and preliminary validation of a soft large area sensor for tactile and proprioceptive sensing in a collaborative robotic manipulator. Such a manipulator is shaped to resemble the human hand and within this paper we focused on the index finger. The finger architecture has a design which allows setting up a structured 3D model, with flexible parametrization and fast prototyping. An optical fiber embedding 12 Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) has been integrated in a soft polymeric matrix to mimic human sense of touch abilities of a whole finger. In order to assess the sensorized robotic manipulator, a mechatronic validation platform has been developed and employed. Preliminary results show a mechanical decoupling between exteroceptive and proprioceptive functions, and among the spatially distributed outputs of the sensor array. These results demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach towards achieving dexterous and fine capabilities in the manipulation of objects.

Soft large area FBG tactile sensors for exteroception and proprioception in a collaborative robotic manipulator

Despite the large amount of available exoskeletons, their use in daily life is still limited due to the absence of testing in real-life environments. Thus, the present work aims to test on a series of uneven terrains a wearable ankle exoskeleton, named RANK, designed for walking assistance and drop-foot prevention. RANK consists of a 3D-printed brace attached to the user and a piezoresistive insole, to be incorporated into the user's shoe. Real-time analysis of the insole's sensor outputs enables the control system to provide torque assistance to the ankle joint through a four-bar linkage mechanism. Two healthy male subjects were enrollee, asking them to walk on three different terrain conditions (flat, soft, and irregular) with and without exoskeleton. Human kinematics was gathered via inertial measurements units (IMUs). The effects of ankle exoskeleton on lower limb joint angles were assessed in terms of range of motion (ROM), whereas statistical parametric map method was applied to compare joint angle curves. As expected, a reduction of the ankle ROM approximatively of 10° was found in all terrain conditions between the trails performed with and without exoskeleton. No effects induced on the hip and knee joint were observed. Moreover, no significant differences were found over the almost totality of the gait cycle regardless the terrain conditions. Results demonstrate the capability of the exoskeleton to work properly regardless the type of walking surface.

Eduardo Palermo

Papers

Microwave Characterization of 3D Printed PLA and PLA/CNT Composites

In Memoriam: Paolo Cappa

Deep brain stimulation and motor synergies in Parkinson’s disease

Soft large area FBG tactile sensors for exteroception and proprioception in a collaborative robotic manipulator

RANK - Robotic Ankle: Design and testing on irregular terrains