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Handedness-related outcome following arthroscopic shoulder stabilization
Bankart's repair technique represents a standard procedure for arthroscopic shoulder stabilization with excellent functional outcomes. Information concerning handedness-related outcome is missing. Here, we com...
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Investigating large curved interaction devices
Large interactive surfaces enable novel forms of interaction for their users, particularly in terms of collaborative interaction. During longer interactions, the ergonomic factors of interaction systems have t...
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Injection with autologous conditioned serum has better clinical results than eccentric training for chronic Achilles tendinopathy
Chronic Achilles tendinopathy is one of the most common causes of malfunction and pain, which can lead to a significant reduction of the quality of life. The hypothesis of this study argues that autologous con...
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Chapter
Invisible Human Sensing in Smart Living Environments Using Capacitive Sensors
Smart Living environments aim at supporting their inhabitants in daily tasks by detecting their needs and dynamically reacting accordingly. This generally requires several sensor devices, whose acquired data i...
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The effect of subacromial injections of autologous conditioned plasma versus cortisone for the treatment of symptomatic partial rotator cuff tears
Rotator cuff tears are one of the most common causes of shoulder malfunction and pain, which lead to a significant reduction in the quality of life. This present study investigated the effects of subacromial p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Investigating Low-Cost Wireless Occupancy Sensors for Beds
Occupancy sensors are used in care applications to measure the presence of patients on beds or chairs. Sometimes it is necessary to swiftly alert help when patients try to get up, in order to prevent falls. Mo...
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Chapter
Alpine Sports
Wintersports are popular activities and became in the past 20 years even more popular. The improvement of the equipment makes especially downhill skiing and snowboarding in general safer than in the past centu...
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Tendon healing: an overview of physiology, biology, and pathology of tendon healing and systematic review of state of the art in tendon bioengineering
Tendon injuries vary from acute rupture to chronic tendinopathy. For an optimal treatment of either condition, a profound knowledge is essential. Therefore, this article shall give an overview of physiology, b...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Gesture-Based Configuration of Location Information in Smart Environments with Visual Feedback
The location of objects and devices in a smart environment is a very important piece of information to enable advanced and sophisticated use cases for interaction and for supporting the user in daily activitie...
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A PCR-based linkage map of Agrostis stolonifera and identification of QTL markers for dollar spot resistance
Cree** bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) is the most widely utilized cool-season turf species for intensively managed sports playing surfaces, including bowling greens and golf course putting greens, tees, an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Optical Guiding System for Gesture Based Interactions in Smart Environments
Using gestures to control Ambient Intelligence environments can result in mismatches between the user’s intention and the perception of the gesture by the system. One way to cope with this problem is to provid...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Context-Based Bounding Volume Morphing in Pointing Gesture Application
In the last few years the number of intelligent systems has been growing rapidly and classical interaction devices like mouse and keyboard are replaced in some use cases. Novel, goal-based interaction systems,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Providing Visual Support for Selecting Reactive Elements in Intelligent Environments
When realizing gestural interaction in a typical living environment there often is an offset between user-perceived and machine-perceived direction of pointing, which can hinder reliable selection of elements ...
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Effect of BMP-12, TGF-β1 and autologous conditioned serum on growth factor expression in Achilles tendon healing
Achilles tendon ruptures are devastating and recover slowly and incompletely. There is a great demand for biomolecular therapies to improve recovery, yet little is understood about growth factors in a healing ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Graphical User Interface for an Elderly Person with Dementia
Develo** Graphical User Interfaces for elderly people with dementia requires a special care for the needs of the target group. This paper addresses the requirements and the development of a Graphical User In...
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Development of a force-determining tensor to measure “physiologic knee ligament gaps” without bone resection using a total knee arthroplasty approach
Ligament balancing is a challenging but essential part of successful total knee arthroplasty. There is general agreement that flexion and extension gaps should be equal and symmetrical. However, to date there ...
