Publications by authors named "Abdulghani Mohamed"
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- Wind-hovering birds like nankeen kestrels demonstrate stability in flight by adjusting their wings and tail shapes.
- Motion-tracking technology was used to study how these birds maintain position in a wind tunnel, focusing on their head, body, and wing movements.
- The findings show that wing motion, particularly wing sweep and the interplay between wing and tail movements, is crucial for steady hovering, suggesting that bird flight mechanics could inform the design of future aircraft.
Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) and vascular parkinsonism (VaP) have highly overlapping phenotypes, and different prognosis. This study comprehensively investigated the clinical, brain MRI and transcranial sonography differences between VaP and PD.
Methods: Forty-eight patients with PD, 27 patients with VaP, and 29 healthy controls were compared.
Avian flight continues to inspire aircraft designers. Reducing the scale of autonomous aircraft to that of birds and large insects has resulted in new control challenges when attempting to hold steady flight in turbulent atmospheric wind. Some birds, however, are capable of remarkably stable hovering flight in the same conditions.
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