Science news articles about 'mechanical factors'

... athlete’s performance in sprints of very short duration is determined almost entirely by mechanical factors, in races of longer duration, such as the 400m, performance depends on both mechanical and ...

... cartilage loss with qualitative cartilage assessments. For a clearer picture of the role of various mechanical factors in knee OA, researchers at Northwestern University and Salzburg Univeristy ...

... . Pelvic girdle syndrome often appears in the first half of pregnancy, a period in which mechanical factors are unlikely to have much influence. This strengthens the hypothesis that hormones are an ...

... Legant said. "By varying the properties of our model system, we can study how these mechanical factors are distributed throughout a tissue and how this can, in turn, effect cellular function." "With ...