Dynamic evaluation of the cervical spine by kinematic MRI in patients with cervical spinal cord injury without fracture and dislocation.

Background: The pattern of changes in the cervical spine and the spinal cord and their dynamic characteristics in patients with cervical spinal cord injury without fracture and dislocation remain unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the dynamic changes in the cervical spine and spinal cord from C2/3 to C7/T1 in different positions by using kinematic magnetic resonance imaging in patients with cervical spinal cord injury without fracture and dislocation. This study was approved by the ethics committee of Yuebei People's Hospital.

A simple method for lodging resistance evaluation of maize in the field.

The increase of planting density is a dominant approach for the higher yield of maize. However, the stalks of some varieties are prone to lodging under high density conditions. Much research has been done on the evaluation of maize lodging resistance.

Application of minimum error entropy unscented Kalman filter in table tennis trajectory prediction.

Table tennis is important and challenging project for robotics research, and table tennis robotics receives a lot of attention from academics. Trajectory tracking and prediction of table tennis is an important technology for table tennis robots, and its estimation accuracy is also disturbed by non-Gaussian noise. In this paper, a novel Kalman filter, called minimum error entropy unscented Kalman filter (MEEUKF), is employed to estimate the motion trajectory of physical model of a table tennis.

Electrochemical cobalt-catalyzed C-H or N-H oxidation: a facile route to synthesis of substituted oxindoles.

Two comparable protocols for the electrochemical cobalt-catalyzed C-H/N-H oxidation have been exploited for the synthesis of substituted oxindoles via radical pathways. The electrochemical cobalt-catalyzed system was demonstrated to be efficient and eco-friendly and avoided the use of stoichiometric oxidants to afford the arylation or alkylation products in good yields at room temperature.