Development of a new amblyopia-training device with polarizing films used under binocular conditions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yo Iwata ◽  
Tomoya Handa ◽  
Hitoshi Ishikawa
Keyword(s):  
Training Device

CHARACTERISTICS OF POST-FLIGHT MUSCLE STRENGTH AND VELOCITY DYNAMICS IN COSMONAUTS AS A FUNCTION OF WEIGHT LOADING DURING LONG-TERM SPACE MISSIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
E.V. Fomina ◽  
◽  
T.B. Kukoba ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Muscle Strength ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Flight Muscle ◽  
Space Mission ◽  
The Body ◽  
Maximum Strength ◽  
Training Device ◽  
Leg Muscle ◽  
Weight Loading

Testing of 25 cosmonauts showed that the amount of resistance training weight loading in long-term space mission influences dynamics of the leg-muscle strength and velocity recovery. On Earth, the loads equal from 70 to 130 % of the body mass is sufficient for keeping up endurance and maximum strength moments of shin and thigh muscles. In the group of cosmonauts who had not used the strength training device or chosen loads less than 30 % of the body mass the leg-muscle maximum strength and thigh endurance were decreased substantially on day 4 of return and all the more by day 15 back on Earth.

scholarly journals Severity-Mapped Vibrotactile Cues to Support Interruption Management with Weather Messaging in the General Aviation Cockpit

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 341
Author(s):  
Carolina Rodriguez-Paras ◽  
Johnathan T. McKenzie ◽  
Pasakorn Choterungruengkorn ◽  
Thomas K. Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
General Aviation ◽  
Flight Training ◽  
Mountainous Terrain ◽  
Task Management ◽  
Training Device ◽  
Cognitive Demands ◽  
Weather Information ◽  
Interruption Management

Despite the increasing availability of technologies that provide access to aviation weather information in the cockpit, weather remains a prominent contributor to general aviation (GA) accidents. Pilots fail to detect the presence of new weather information, misinterpret it, or otherwise fail to act appropriately on it. When cognitive demands imposed by concurrent flight tasks are high, the risks increase for each of these failure modes. Previous research shows how introducing vibrotactile cues can help ease or redistribute some of these demands, but there is untapped potential in exploring how vibratory cues can facilitate “interruption management”, i.e., fitting the processing of available weather information into flight task workflow. In the current study, GA pilots flew a mountainous terrain scenario in a flight training device while receiving, processing, and acting on various weather information messages that were displayed visually, in graphical and text formats, on an experimental weather display. Half of the participants additionally received vibrotactile cues via a connected smartwatch with patterns that conveyed the “severity” of the message, allowing pilots to make informed decisions about when to fully attend to and process the message. Results indicate that weather messages were acknowledged more often and faster when accompanied by the vibrotactile cues, but the time after acknowledgment to fully process the messages was not significantly affected by vibrotactile cuing, nor was overall situation awareness. These findings illustrate that severity-encoded vibrotactile cues can support pilot awareness of updated weather as well as task management in processing weather messages while managing concurrent flight demands.

scholarly journals An Accessible Training Device for Children with Cerebral Palsy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Guoqing Wan ◽  
Hsieh-Chun Hsieh ◽  
Chien-Heng Lin ◽  
Hung-Yu Lina ◽  
Chien-Yu Linb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Training Device ◽  
Children With Cerebral Palsy

scholarly journals Audit of the Pedagogical Quality of the Training Device at the Training Center of Education Inspectors (CFIE) of Rabat (Morocco)

2015 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 371-377
Author(s):  
Mohamed Essaoudi ◽  
Raja Lotfi ◽  
Said Lotfi ◽  
Mohammed Talbi ◽  
Mohamed Radid
Keyword(s):  
Training Center ◽  
Training Device ◽  
Pedagogical Quality

The Ability to Use Epinephrine Autoinjector in Patients Who Receive Prescription Immediately after Anaphylaxis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Saša Kadivec ◽  
Mitja Košnik
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Shelf Life ◽  
Anaphylactic Reaction ◽  
Family Physician ◽  
Fatal Outcome ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Prescription Rate ◽  
Training Device ◽  
Epinephrine Autoinjector

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Epinephrine autoinjector (EAI) is prescribed to prevent a fatal outcome in the case of a repeated anaphylactic reactions. We wanted to determine how adult patients who received their first prescription as part of an urgent treatment of an anaphylactic reaction or at their family physician were instructed on the use of EAI. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> Nurses assessing patients’ knowledge asked the patient to demonstrate how to use the EAI training device. Patients who performed the critical steps correctly in 1 min were labelled as competent. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Forty-one patients (24% women, 46 ± 5 years) came for the allergy examination 116 ± 145 days after receiving a prescription for EAI. When prescribing, the doctor or nurse explained the instructions for the use of EAI to 63.4% patients, and 31.7 patients practiced the use of EAI using a training device. At the pharmacy, 22% received explanation and 7% also practiced using a training device. Fifty-four percent of patients were able to effectively administer EAI adrenaline within 1 min. Higher education level was associated with sufficient knowledge about the use of EAI (<i>p</i> = 0.026). At the time of the visit to the allergy specialist clinic, 61% of patients had EAI with them. The shelf life of EAI was known to 63% of patients. <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> The activities to increase the prescription rate of EAI immediately after treatment of anaphylactic episode are not sufficient to prevent severe outcome after the repeated episodes of anaphylaxis as nearly a half of patients are not able to use EAI correctly.

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