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Robot-assisted gait training improves motor performances and modifies Motor Unit firing in post-stroke patients

Background. Robotics and related technologies are realizing their promise to improve the delivery of rehabilitation therapy but the mechanism by which they enhance recovery is still unknown. The electromechanical-driven gait orthosis Lokomat has demonstrat ...

Edizioni Minerva Medica2015

Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance

Stefano Colonnello

This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter examines whether the availability of credit default swaps (CDS) has consequences for creditor governance. CDSs offer creditors the opportunity to hedge credit risk and may impact their willing ...

EPFL2015

Size effects in drift capacities of URM walls

Katrin Beyer, Sarah Petry

Examining the results of a large set of quasi-static cyclic tests on unreinforced masonry (URM) walls showed that the drift capacity of URM walls reduces with increasing wall size. Such a size effect is of concern since most wall tests were carried out on ...

2015

Transition and self-healing process between chaotic and self-organized patterns observed during femtosecond laser writing

Yves Bellouard, Max-Olivier Hongler

We report evidence of intermittent behavior between chaotic and self-organized patterns while writing lines with a femtosecond lasers on the surface of a fused silica substrate. The patterns are accompanied by resolidified sub-microspheres and non-aligned ...

Optical Society of America2015

The effect of sleep on motor learning in the aging and stroke population - a systematic review

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Winifried Backhaus

There is extensive evidence for positive effects of sleep on motor learning in young individuals; however, the effects of sleep on motor learning in people with stroke and in healthy older individuals are not well understood. The aim of this systematic rev ...

IOS Press2015

Fatigue behavior of hybrid GFRP-concrete bridge decks under sagging moment

Haifeng Fan, Yuqing Liu

This paper presents a new cost-effective hybrid GFRP-Concrete deck system that the GFRP panel serves as both tensile reinforcement and stay-in-place form. In order to understand the fatigue behavior of such hybrid deck, fatigue test on a full-scale specime ...

Techno-Press2015

Review of Augmented Paper Systems in Education: An Orchestration Perspective

Pierre Dillenbourg, Daniela Caballero Díaz, Yun Wen

Augmented paper has been proposed as a way to integrate more easily ICTs in settings like formal education, where paper has a strong presence. However, despite the multiplicity of educational applications using paper-based computing, their deployment in au ...

Ieee Computer Soc, Learning Technology Task Force2014

A dimerization interface mediated by functionally critical residues creates interfacial disulfide bonds and copper sites in CueP

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata

CueP confers bacterial copper resistance in the periplasm, particularly under anaerobic conditions, through an unknown mechanism. The only available structure and limited solution data suggest that CueP forms noncovalent timers in solution, whereas sequenc ...

Elsevier Science Inc2014

From Practice to Theory and back to Practice: Reflexivity in Measurement and Evaluation for Evidence-based Policy Making in the Information Society

Pierre Rossel, Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

This article presents a comprehensive review of literature and practice on the measurement and evaluation of ICT impact in general and of selected public eServices (eGovernment, eHealth, and eInclusion), within the context of the Information Society paradi ...

Elsevier Inc2013

The process of injury prevention within an international sport federation - Elite Alpine ski racing as an example

Julien Chardonnens

Since 2006 structured and evidence based research on injury prevention is conducted under the guidance and support of the International Ski Federation (FIS) within the Injury Surveillance System (ISS). The outcome of this work is used directly by the FIS f ...

2013

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