Clinical assessment of depth sensor based pose estimation algorithms for technology supervised rehabilitation applications

Encouraging rehabilitation by the use of technology in the home can be a cost-effective strategy, particularly if consumer-level equipment can be used. We present a clinical qualitative and quantitative analysis of the pose estimation algorithms of a typical consumer unit (Xbox One Kinect), to assess its suitability for technology supervised rehabilitation and guide development of future pose estimation algorithms for rehabilitation applciations. We focused the analysis on upper-body stroke rehabilitation as a challenging use case. We found that the algorithms require improved joint tracking, especially for the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints, and exploiting temporal information for tracking when there is full or partial occlusion in the depth data

2024 SPARC Book Of Abstracts

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2024 SPARC conference. Our conference this year was called “Celebrating your research and growing your networks”, with a focus theme of sustainability.Sustainability is important for us all, sustaining the ecological and physical environments we depend on, but also to sustaining the economies and communities in which we live. For postgraduate researcher sustainability is also about managing work life balance and sustaining energy for and during the journey. The support, encouragement and constructive challenge peers provide each other is a truly invaluable part of sustaining and getting the most out of journey. There is no better place to see the value of the PGR community and peer support than at SPARC, where PGRs come together to share and celebrate each other’s research. SPARC is also a great networking opportunity. It’s a wonderful, exciting, energising event and this year we further extended our peer network, with PGRs from both Huddersfield University and Manchester Metropolitan coming to join us and share their work.It’s fabulous to see that SPARC is growing, building on the huge value it offers the PGR community, and this was our biggest yet. We have received a tremendous contribution from our postgraduate research community; with 85 presenters, and 36 poster presentations, the conference showcases our extraordinarily vibrant, diverse PGR.The abstracts contained here provide a taster of the diverse and impactful research in progress and contact details of authors are provided to enable you to make connections with people whose work interests you SPARC is part of a programme of personal and professional development opportunities offered to all postgraduate researchers at Salford. More information about this programme is available on our website: Doctoral School | University of Salford. Registered Salford students can access full details on the Doctoral School Hub - Home (sharepoint.com). You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @SalfordPGRs use the #SPARC2024 to see how the conference went.If you would like more information about studying for a PhD here at the University of Salford, your lecturers can advise, or you can contact the relevant PGR Support Officer; their details can be found at Doctoral School | University of Salford

Data for "Linear cooling of a levitated micromagnetic cylinder by vibration"

Datasets used to create the figures and analysis presented in the publication titled &quot;Linear cooling of a levitated micromagnetic cylinder by vibration&quot;, published in the journal Physical Review Research. </span

Transitioning to Safer Chemicals in Academic Research Laboratories: Lessons Learned at the University of Washington

Chemicals are an integral component of laboratory activities in academia but minimizing hazards and environmental impacts of chemicals is challenging. This paper describes how laboratories in University of Washington’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (UW DEOHS) partnered with the UW Green Laboratory Program to explore approaches for assisting laboratories to adopt green chemistry principles and select safer chemicals. Chemical inventories, purchasing records, and hazardous waste data were used to quantitate chemical use in DEOHS. Characterizing chemical use based on the data sources provided the project team with a summary of the high volume chemicals used by departmental laboratories. As a way to target chemicals that are highly hazardous but not used in large masses/volumes, laboratory managers were asked about highly hazardous or toxic chemicals they used. Two chemicals were selected for alternatives assessments and developed into case studies that represent different barriers that laboratories face in their efforts to transition to greener and safer chemicals. This project provided a unique opportunity to survey chemicals used by a set of laboratories with diverse research topics and to assess the practicality of transitioning to safer and greener chemicals in laboratory research using case studies

Transitioning to Safer Chemicals in Academic Research Laboratories: Lessons Learned at the University of Washington

Chemicals are an integral component of laboratory activities in academia but minimizing hazards and environmental impacts of chemicals is challenging. This paper describes how laboratories in University of Washington’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (UW DEOHS) partnered with the UW Green Laboratory Program to explore approaches for assisting laboratories to adopt green chemistry principles and select safer chemicals. Chemical inventories, purchasing records, and hazardous waste data were used to quantitate chemical use in DEOHS. Characterizing chemical use based on the data sources provided the project team with a summary of the high volume chemicals used by departmental laboratories. As a way to target chemicals that are highly hazardous but not used in large masses/volumes, laboratory managers were asked about highly hazardous or toxic chemicals they used. Two chemicals were selected for alternatives assessments and developed into case studies that represent different barriers that laboratories face in their efforts to transition to greener and safer chemicals. This project provided a unique opportunity to survey chemicals used by a set of laboratories with diverse research topics and to assess the practicality of transitioning to safer and greener chemicals in laboratory research using case studies

An experimental platform for levitated mechanics in space

Conducting experiments in extreme conditions has long been the aim of the levitated mechanics field, as it allows for the investigation of new fundamental physics phenomena. Sending these experiments into the micro-g environment of space has been one such milestone, with multiple proposals calling for such a platform. At the same time, levitated sensors have demonstrated a high sensitivity to external stimuli, such as electric, magnetic and gravitational forces, which will only improve in low-vibrational conditions. This paper describes the development of a technology demonstrator for optical and magnetic trapping experiments in space. Our payload represents the first concrete step towards future missions with aims of probing fundamental physical questions: matter-wave interferometry of nanoparticles to probe the limits of macroscopic quantum mechanics, detection of Dark Matter candidates and gravitational waves to test physics beyond the Standard Model, and accelerometry for Earth-observation

Data for the paper &#39;An experimental platform for levitated mechanics in space&#39;

Data for: An experimental platform for levitated mechanics in space To be published in IOP Quantum Science and Technology</span