Locomotion

structures and the physiological factors that influence their locomotion behaviors is important.…

patterns during overground locomotion (Hruska, Kennedy, & Silbergeld, 1979; Koopmans et al., 2007; Neckel, Dai, & Bregman, 2013). As such, rodent behavioral studies are now frequently accounting for the relationship between speed, gait, and coordination during assessment of unskilled overground locomotion (Batka et al., 2014; Neckel et al., 2013; Vidal, Badner, Maranon, Galan-Estella, & Caballero-Garrido, 2017). While speed is accepted as an important component in locomotion, it still remains…

to multiply to a world population of over six billion. Bipedalism allows humans to assume a status of superiority over all other life on the planet. Such an extraordinary evolutionary adaptation calls for great explanation. Bipedalism refers to locomotion…

Shere Khan must be a quadrupedal robot that will be able to track and stalk the opposing robot, Corbett, while running, jumping and climbing over obstacles. Shere Khan will also have to collect empirical data from the environment including wind velocity, temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure. In order to deactivate Corbett, Shere Khan will have the ability to pounce on and activate the kill switch. To create higher rates of success Shere Khan will be able to modify itself using on-site…

Facial expression Langford et al. (2010) created the “mouse grimace scale” which is the first scoring system for facial categorization in rodents and also the firs study of facial expressions of pain in nonhuman specie. This scale was done with an acetic acid constriction test and measures five facial features, adapted from human facial pain expression studies, and scores them with a value where “0” there is no pain present, “1” it is moderately visible and “2” is severe. Finally, each mouse…

Paired pectoral fins have evolved overtime to allow the Gadus fish to turn more steadily during locomotion and demonstrate the variations in pectoral fins genetics which gives them power in locomotion. The pectoral fins angle of inclination at the insertion point have evolved closer to their center of mass and are positioned mid dorsal on the Gadus fish. This allows significantly greater lateral…

numbers of important fossil discoveries in Africa which were bipedal primates. Biped; terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by two feet also considers bipedalism. That bipedal locomotion sets modern humans apart from all other living primates. The origin of bipedalism has been argued about by how it was the adoption of early hominin fossil record (that was found) had adaptive shifts locomotion over the series of time. Which illustrate the features of hominid, the hominin fossil that…

ON PUFFINS AND THEIR OPTIMIZATION FOR DUAL LOCOMOTION BY B. SIDELL ABSTRACT -- Puffins, one of the few wing-propelled diving birds, are specialized into a specific niche. By balancing the optimization of their bodies for locomotion between the two media of air and sea water created a unique anatomy for a bird. The evolution of Auks, which includes the puffin, shows a mixture of characteristics similar to those of the ultimate diving bird, the penguin, and the large-winged flyers, such as the…

1.1 Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living non-parasitic, non-infectious, non-pathogenic, transparent Nematode (roundworm). It has a full grown length of about 1mm, a life span of around 3 weeks and is found in temperate soil environments where it survives by feeding on microbes such as bacteria. [1] Consisting of about 1000 somatic cells as an adult, C. elegans is amenable to genetic crosses and produces a large number of progeny, at times even…

1) What important information can be obtained from a neurologically-impaired patient while taking a thorough history? Important information that can be obtained during a thorough history of a neurologically-impaired patient is the speed of onset of condition and the pattern of progression. The patient can describe the symptoms through each stage of the onset from acute, subacute and the chronic stage. The pattern of progression can be found with the patient determining whether there symptoms…