First And Last Experiments In Muscle Mechanics

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First And Last Experiments In Muscle Mechanics

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Author : Archibald Vivian Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970

First And Last Experiments In Muscle Mechanics written by Archibald Vivian Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Muscle contraction categories.

First And Last Experiments In Muscle Mechanics

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Author : A. V. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1970-05-02

First And Last Experiments In Muscle Mechanics written by A. V. Hill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970-05-02 with Science categories.

First And Last Experiments In Muscle Mechanisms

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970

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Multiple Muscle Systems

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Author : Jack M. Winters
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Multiple Muscle Systems written by Jack M. Winters and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.

The picture on the front cover of this book depicts a young man pulling a fishnet, a task of practical relevance for many centuries. It is a complex task, involving load transmission throughout the body, intricate balance, and eye head-hand coordination. The quest toward understanding how we perform such tasks with skill and grace, often in the presence of unpredictable pertur bations, has a long history. However, despite a history of magnificent sculptures and drawings of the human body which vividly depict muscle ac tivity and interaction, until more recent times our state of knowledge of human movement was rather primitive. During the past century this has changed; we now have developed a considerable database regarding the com position and basic properties of muscle and nerve tissue and the basic causal relations between neural function and biomechanical movement. Over the last few decades we have also seen an increased appreciation of the impor tance of musculoskeletal biomechanics: the neuromotor system must control movement within a world governed by mechanical laws. We have now col lected quantitative data for a wealth of human movements. Our capacity to understand the data we collect has been enhanced by our continually evolving modeling capabilities and by the availability of computational power. What have we learned? This book is designed to help synthesize our current knowledge regarding the role of muscles in human movement. The study of human movement is not a mature discipline.

Muscles Reflexes And Locomotion

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Author : Thomas A. McMahon
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1984-04-21

Muscles Reflexes And Locomotion written by Thomas A. McMahon and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-04-21 with Medical categories.

This is the first book-length treatment of mathematical models of muscle functions. Although physiologists, biophysicists, and bioengineers often mention these models, particularly the important Huxley models, Thomas A. McMahon is the first completely to explain them.

Exercise Physiology

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Author : Charles M Tipton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-05-27

Exercise Physiology written by Charles M Tipton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-27 with Medical categories.

This history of exercise physiology is written from a systems perspective. It examines the responses of key physiological systems to the conditions of acute and chronic exercise, as well as their coupling with integrative responses.

Kinanthropometry And Exercise Physiology Laboratory Manual Tests Procedures And Data

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Author : Roger Eston
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-01

Kinanthropometry And Exercise Physiology Laboratory Manual Tests Procedures And Data written by Roger Eston and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.

Kinanthropometry is the study of human body size, shape and form and how those characteristics relate to human movement and sporting performance. In this fully updated and revised edition of the classic guide to kinanthropometric theory and practice, leading international sport and exercise scientists offer a clear and comprehensive introduction to essential principles and techniques. Each chapter guides the reader through the planning and conduct of practical and laboratory sessions and includes a survey of current theory and contemporary literature relating to that topic. The book is fully illustrated and includes worked examples, exercises, research data, chapter summaries and guides to further reading throughout. Volume Two: Exercise Physiology covers key topics such as: neuromuscular aspects of movement skeletal muscle function oxygen transport, including haemotology, pulmonary and cardiovascular functions metabolism and thermoregulation VO2 kinetics physiological economy, efficiency and 'fitness' physiological limitations to performance assessment of energy expenditure, perceived exertion and maximal intensity. The Kinanthropometry and Exercise Physiology Laboratory Manual is essential reading for all serious students and researchers of sport and exercise science, kinesiology and human movement. Roger Eston is Professor of Human Physiology and Head of the School of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter. Thomas Reilly is Professor of Sports Science and Director of the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University.

Biomechanics

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Author : Y. C. Fung
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-06-29

Biomechanics written by Y. C. Fung and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-29 with Medical categories.

The motivation for writing aseries ofbooks on biomechanics is to bring this rapidly developing subject to students of bioengineering, physiology, and mechanics. In the last decade biomechanics has become a recognized disci pline offered in virtually all universities. Yet there is no adequate textbook for instruction; neither is there a treatise with sufficiently broad coverage. A few books bearing the title of biomechanics are too elementary, others are too specialized. I have long feIt a need for a set of books that will inform students of the physiological and medical applications of biomechanics, and at the same time develop their training in mechanics. We cannot assume that all students come to biomechanics already fully trained in fluid and solid mechanics; their knowledge in these subjects has to be developed as the course proceeds. The scheme adopted in the present series is as follows. First, some basic training in mechanics, to a level about equivalent to the first seven chapters of the author's A First Course in Continuum Mechanics (Prentice-Hall,lnc. 1977), is assumed. We then present some essential parts of biomechanics from the point of view of bioengineering, physiology, and medical applications. In the meantime, mechanics is developed through a sequence of problems and examples. The main text reads like physiology, while the exercises are planned like a mechanics textbook. The instructor may fil1 a dual role: teaching an essential branch of life science, and gradually developing the student's knowledge in mechanics.

Nonlinear Approaches In Engineering Applications

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Author : Reza N. Jazar
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-05-27

Nonlinear Approaches In Engineering Applications written by Reza N. Jazar and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-27 with Technology & Engineering categories.

This book looks at the broad field of engineering science through the lens of nonlinear approaches. Examples focus on issues in vehicle technology, including vehicle dynamics, vehicle-road interaction, steering, and control for electric and hybrid vehicles. Also included are discussions on train and tram systems, aerial vehicles, robot-human interaction, and contact and scratch analysis at the micro/nanoscale. Chapters are based on invited contributions from world-class experts in the field who advance the future of engineering by discussing the development of more optimal, accurate, efficient, and cost and energy effective systems. This book is appropriate for researchers, students, and practicing engineers who are interested in the applications of nonlinear approaches to solving engineering and science problems.

The Ventricle

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Author : Herbert J. Levine
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

The Ventricle written by Herbert J. Levine and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Medical categories.

Cardiac anatomy had already been a subject of and its control in health and disease has been great interest for centuries when Harvey de published. Studies of hypertrophy, heart failure, scribed the dynamic nature of blood flow, but ischemia, and infarction have been vigorously the concept of defining ventricular function was pursued in experimental animals and in human first introduced with the measurement of a subjects, and as a result new areas for study have emerged. These include the process of hypertro mare's blood pressure by Steven Hales in 1733. Amidst the important contributions of a number phy as an adaptive mechanism, the coronary vas of European physiologists, the primal relation cular reserve in hypertrophy, the role of the ship between the mechanical energy of the heart microvasculature in myocardial failure, active and the length of a myocardial fiber was enun relaxation and other diastolic mechanisms that contribute to the syndrome of congestive heart ciated by E.H. Starling in 1912; this became known as the "law of the heart." Perhaps the failure, ventricular interaction and the role of the normal pericardium, ischemic-stunned first major refinement of this law was suggested by Sarnoff and co-workers, who introduced the reperfused myocardium, and vasoactive drugs in concept of homeometric autoregulation to ex the treatment of heart failure