Eletromiografia dos músculos temporal e masseter em crianças com mordida cruzada posterior direita

This study proposal was to evaluate the changes at a masticatory muscle temporalis and masseter, through a eletromyographic, at ponters of the right unilateral bite posterior, verifying the difference at the eletric activity between right and left sides. Twenty female volunteers, with ages between 7 and 8 (x = 7.4). The eletromyographics signals were collected in both sides in all volunteers in rest situations and in an usual isotonic mastication, right, left and bilateral and the maximun isometric constriction, which sinal was used to the eletric activity amplitude normalization. The results signed that the right masseter muscle presents an expressive statistic difference, if compared with the left masseter muscle during the left and right mastication, suggesting a right unilateral mastication. The muscle haven't gotten any expressive variance in this amplitude which remained to a proximate flat noticed in a right and habitual mastication, suggesting a right and one sided mastication during the left mastication occurs a raise of the eletric signal amplitude of the muscle left masseter. The right masseter muscle haven't gained any expressive variance, which remained in a proximate flat observed in an usual and right mastication, suggesting a muscular pattern hyperfunction next to the dental crossing.

AC biosusceptometry as a method for measuring gastric contraction

the aim of this study was to validate the Alternate Current Biosusceptometry (ACB) for monitoring gastric contractions in rats. In vitro data were obtained to establish the relationship between ACB and the strain-gauge (SG) signal amplitude. In vivo experiments were performed on rats with magnetic markers and SGs previously implanted under the gastric serosa. The effects of the prandial state in gastric motility profiles were obtained. The correlation between in vitro signal amplitudes was strong (R = 0.989). The temporal cross-correlation between the ACB and SG signal amplitude was higher in the postprandial than in the fasting state. Irregular signal profiles, low contraction amplitudes, and smaller signal-to-noise ratios explained the poor correlation for fasting-state recordings. The contraction frequencies using ACB were 0.068 ± 0.007 Hz (postprandial) and 0.058 ± 0.007 Hz (fasting) and those using SG were 0.066 ± 0.006 Hz (postprandial) and 0.059 ± 0.008 Hz (fasting) (P < 0.003). When a magnetic tracer was ingested, there was a strong correlation and a small phasedifference between techniques. We conclude that ACB provides an accurate and sensitive technique for studies of GI motility in the rat. © 2010 IEEE.

Patellofemoral pain syndrome: Electromyography in a frequency domain analysis

The Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS), has a multifactorial etiology and affects approximately 7 to 15% of the population, mostly women, youth, adults and active persons. PFPS causes anterior or retropatelar pain that is exacerbated during functional motor gestures, such as up and down stairs or spending long periods of time sitting, squatting or kneeling. As the diagnostic evaluation of this syndrome is still indirect, different mechanisms and methodologies try to make a classification that distinguishes patients with PFPS in relation to asymptomatic. Thereby, the purpose of this investigation was to determine the characteristics of the electromyographic (EMG) signal in the frequency domain of the vastus medialis oblique (VMO) and vastus lateralis (VL) in patients with PFPS, during the ascent of stairs. 33 young women (22 control group and 11 PFPS group), were evaluated by EMG during ascent of stairs. The VMO mean power frequency (MPF) and the VL frequency 95% (F95) were lower in symptomatic individuals. This may be related to the difference in muscle recruitment strategy exerted by each muscle in the PFPS group compared to the control group.

Parâmetros do sinal eletromiográfico aplicados ao estudo da fadiga muscular localizada: caracterização do processo; análise de reprodutibilidade e multivariada

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Efeito de um treinamento de FNP sobre variáveis biomecânicas em idosos caidores

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Análise de parâmetros de força e padrão de nado de ratos controles e obesos, a partir de um sistema de aquisição de sinais em natação atada: Influência da intensidade do exercício e da densidade corporal

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Análise eletromiográfica e de acelerometria na manobra fisioterápica de vibração torácica manual

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Desenvolvimento de um magnetometro a precessão nuclear

O objetivo desta tese foi desenvolver um magnetômetro à precessão nuclear para prospecção geofísica e estações-base magnéticas. O magnetômetro à precessão nuclear mede a intensidade total do campo magnético. Seu funcionamento é baseado na ressonância magnética nuclear. A medida de campo é feita pela de terminação da freqüência de precessão de núcleos de hidrogênio – prótons - de líquidos não viscosos no campo magnético terrestre. O magnetômetro é constituído de duas partes: o sensor e o instrumento de medida. O sensor é uma bobina solenoidal, cujo núcleo é preenchido com o líquido. Três líquidos diferentes foram testados; água, propanol e um querosene sintético. Optou-se pelo uso do querosene porque oferece maior amplitude no sinal de precessão, dando, conseqüentemente, maior relação sinal/ ruído. O sistema de medida contém os circuitos de sintonia e amplificação do sinal e, os circuitos lógicos para a programação da operação e contagem da freqüência de precessão. Cada ciclo de medida tem duração de 3 segundos, sendo 2,3s para a polarização e 0,7s para a recepção do sinal. São possíveis dois modos de operação: manual, reciclando automaticamente e por controle remoto. O sinal de precessão é amplificado seletivamente em uma das 14 faixas de sintonia, que cobrem medidas entre 22000 e 95000 gammas. A freqüência de precessão é multiplicada por um fator de 64 e contada durante um tempo igual a 0,36699s, determinado com base na razão giromagnética do próton. O número de pulsos contados é numericamente igual ao valor do campo magnético em gammas. A resposta pode ser lida em mostradores digitais ou na saída BCD paralela quando operando por controle remoto. A precisão da medida é de 1 gamma. O instrumento foi testado no campo para avaliar a relação sinal/ruído, gradiente suportável e consumo de potência. Nos testes de aplicação do protótipo, foram obtidos dados de variação diurna e realizaram-se levantamentos magnético de reconhecimento e detalhe em um sítio arqueológico na Ilha de Marajó, Pará. As respostas dos testes foram comparados com dois magnetômetros comerciais - o GP-70, McPhar e o G-816, Geometrics e, ainda, com dados do Observatório Magnético de Tatuoca-Pa. Em todos os casos, a comparação dos dados mostrou bom desempenho do magnetômetro em teste.

Analise eletromiográfica e dinamométrica durante o ciclio da pedalada em cicloergômetro aquático

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Influência de protocolos de treino de equilíbrio no desempenho funcional de idosas com osteoporose

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Prospecção magnetométrica em intrusiva básica com indícios de mineralização aurífera no município de São Sepé - RS

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Light-Induced Structural Change in Iridium Complexes Studied by Electron Spin Resonance

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Investigation of the Goias Alkaline Province, Central Brazil: Application of gravity and magnetic methods

We investigate the strong magnetic and gravity anomalies of the Goias Alkaline Province (GAP), a region of Late Cretaceous alkaline magmatism along the northern border of the Parana Basin, Brazil. The alkaline complexes (eight of which are present in outcrops, two others inferred from magnetic signals) are characterized by a series of small intrusions forming almost circular magnetic and gravimetric anomalies varying from -4000 to +6000 nT and from -10 to +40 mGal, respectively. We used the Aneuler method and Analytical Signal Amplitude to obtain depth and geometry for mapped sources from the magnetic anomaly data. These results were used as the reference models in the 3D gravity inversion. The 3D inversion results show that the alkaline intrusions have depths of 10-12 km. The intrusions in the northern GAP follow two alignments and have different sizes. In the anomaly magnetic map, dominant guidelines correlate strongly with the extensional regimes that correlate with the rise of alkaline magmatism. The emplacement of these intrusions marks mechanical discontinuities and zones of weakness in the upper crust. According to the 3D inversion results, those intrusions are located within the upper crust (from the surface to 18 km depth) and have spheres as the preferable geometry. Such spherical shapes are more consistent with magmatic chambers instead of plug intrusions. The Registro do Araguaia anomaly (similar to 15 by 25 km) has a particular magnetic signature that indicates that the top is deeper than 1500 m. North of this circular anomaly are lineaments with structural indices indicating contacts on their edges and dikes/sills in the interiors. Results of 3D inversion of magnetic and gravity data suggest that the Registro do Araguaia is the largest body in the area, reaching 18 km depth and indicating a circular layered structure. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Imaging of crustal scatterers using multiple seismic arrays

Array seismology is an useful tool to perform a detailed investigation of the Earth’s interior. Seismic arrays by using the coherence properties of the wavefield are able to extract directivity information and to increase the ratio of the coherent signal amplitude relative to the amplitude of incoherent noise. The Double Beam Method (DBM), developed by Krüger et al. (1993, 1996), is one of the possible applications to perform a refined seismic investigation of the crust and mantle by using seismic arrays. The DBM is based on a combination of source and receiver arrays leading to a further improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio by reducing the error in the location of coherent phases. Previous DBM works have been performed for mantle and core/mantle resolution (Krüger et al., 1993; Scherbaum et al., 1997; Krüger et al., 2001). An implementation of the DBM has been presented at 2D large-scale (Italian data-set for Mw=9.3, Sumatra earthquake) and at 3D crustal-scale as proposed by Rietbrock & Scherbaum (1999), by applying the revised version of Source Scanning Algorithm (SSA; Kao & Shan, 2004). In the 2D application, the rupture front propagation in time has been computed. In 3D application, the study area (20x20x33 km3), the data-set and the source-receiver configurations are related to the KTB-1994 seismic experiment (Jost et al., 1998). We used 60 short-period seismic stations (200-Hz sampling rate, 1-Hz sensors) arranged in 9 small arrays deployed in 2 concentric rings about 1 km (A-arrays) and 5 km (B-array) radius. The coherence values of the scattering points have been computed in the crustal volume, for a finite time-window along all array stations given the hypothesized origin time and source location. The resulting images can be seen as a (relative) joint log-likelihood of any point in the subsurface that have contributed to the full set of observed seismograms.

Continuos Flow Single Cell Separation into Open Microwell Arrays

A novel design based on electric field-free open microwell arrays for the automated continuous-flow sorting of single or small clusters of cells is presented. The main feature of the proposed device is the parallel analysis of cell-cell and cell-particle interactions in each microwell of the array. High throughput sample recovery with a fast and separate transfer from the microsites to standard microtiter plates is also possible thanks to the flexible printed circuit board technology which permits to produce cost effective large area arrays featuring geometries compatible with laboratory equipment. The particle isolation is performed via negative dielectrophoretic forces which convey the particles’ into the microwells. Particles such as cells and beads flow in electrically active microchannels on whose substrate the electrodes are patterned. The introduction of particles within the microwells is automatically performed by generating the required feedback signal by a microscope-based optical counting and detection routine. In order to isolate a controlled number of particles we created two particular configurations of the electric field within the structure. The first one permits their isolation whereas the second one creates a net force which repels the particles from the microwell entrance. To increase the parallelism at which the cell-isolation function is implemented, a new technique based on coplanar electrodes to detect particle presence was implemented. A lock-in amplifying scheme was used to monitor the impedance of the channel perturbed by flowing particles in high-conductivity suspension mediums. The impedance measurement module was also combined with the dielectrophoretic focusing stage situated upstream of the measurement stage, to limit the measured signal amplitude dispersion due to the particles position variation within the microchannel. In conclusion, the designed system complies with the initial specifications making it suitable for cellomics and biotechnology applications.