(1) Current footrests on wheelchairs are a major source of the problems during transfer.
(2) A group of eight subjects was used to investigate some factors (footrest, backrest, posture, muscle tension, vibration magnitude) that may affect the apparent mass of a person; a group of 60 subjects (24 men, 24 women and 12 children) was used to investigate variability between people.
(3) Footrests and railings have appeared at a number of intersections, allowing cyclists to wait for the light to change without the irritation of having to hop off the saddle or put a foot down.
(4) The new footrest lowers down to the ground and is operated by a footlever.
(5) Studies are described in which the footrests of hospital wheelchairs are assessed and improved in order to reduce the problems of patient transfer.
(6) Dynamic stability was tested by having subjects descend a 5 degree ramp, by gravity alone, from progressively farther up the ramp until a full forward tip occurred (footrests contacted the floor) when the wheelchair struck a 5-cm-high obstruction with sufficient speed.
(7) Experimental and control groups of students were examined by a conventional panoramic technique, with and without the addition of an inclined footrest.
(8) Elevating one or both footrests and adding one or two simulated casts each significantly reduced static forward stability.
(9) This study tests the hypothesis that counterweights on the wheelchair footrests significantly increase static rear stability.
(10) On a high-friction floor surface, 19 and 18 subjects (with and without casts) experienced full tips or yawing falls to the side of the elevated footrest.
(11) In addition to pilot work indicating the amount and positioning of effective counterweights, ten normal subjects were studied on a tilting platform in both lightweight and conventional wheelchairs, with and without a 5-kg weight on the footrests.
(12) Four different types of footrest were fitted to hospital ward chairs and three types to transit chairs; these were assessed and compared by hospital ward staff and porters respectively.
(13) With both footrests elevated, eight subjects tipped transiently, and 12 continued to tip until the footrests hit the floor.
(14) Results indicated that the inclined footrest reduced spinal-shadow artifacts and improved over-all image quality.
(15) A new approach to footrest design is described which solves these difficulties by using a footrest that lowers onto the floor.
(16) Readings of both normal force (perpendicular to the seat) and shear force were measured while the chair's back angle and footrest height were changed.
(17) It consists of a contoured seat, mounted on a modified wheelchair frame, with integral armrests, footrests and headrest.
(18) Elevating one footrest (with or without a cast) caused only transient tips.
(19) Pressure under the ischial tuberosities was also measured during the footrest height adjustments.
(20) An inclined footrest was evaluated as a positioning aid for dental panoramic radiography.
Rest
Definition:
(v. t.) To arrest.
(n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
(n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
(n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
(n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
(n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
(n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
(n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
(n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
(n.) A set or game at tennis.
(n.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
(n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
(n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
(n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
(n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
(n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
(n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
(n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
(v. t.) To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
(v. t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
(n.) That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
(n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
(n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
(v. i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(3) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(4) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(5) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
(6) Only in 17 of the 97 examinees all the examined parameters were found normal, in the rest deviations from the normal echographic picture were revealed.
(7) Subjects then rested supine until 10.00 h when blood was again taken, and blood pressure recorded.
(8) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(9) Under resting conditions, the variance of cerebral metabolism seems to be primarily related to regions which are closely involved with the limbic system.
(10) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(11) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(13) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
(14) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
(15) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(16) Among the 295 nonpathogenic strains, 115 were sensitive to all antibiotics whereas the rest were resistant to 1-5 kinds of antibiotics.
(17) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
(18) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
(19) Assessments were made daily by patients, using visual analogue scales, of their pain levels at rest, at night and on activity, and of the limitation of their activity.
(20) An "overshoot" elevation of ejection fraction above resting levels was demonstrated following termination of exercise in most patients.