Fall accidents represent a tremendous health problem to the society, both in terms of human suffering and economic losses. Improved understanding of age-related biomechanical characteristics in response to unexpected slip perturbations would enhance our ability to identify the successful reactive-recovery mechanisms involved in slip and fall accidents. This book described a laboratory study having both young and elderly participants walk over a slippery surface. A 3D lower extremity joint moment analysis was performed to those trials that participants successfully recovered their balance. The...

The confocal microscope is appropriate for imaging cells or the measurement of industrial artefacts. However, junior researchers and instrument users sometimes misuse imaging concepts and metrological characteristics, such as position resolution in industrial metrology and scale resolution in bio-imaging. And, metrological characteristics or influence factors in 3D measurement such as height assessment error caused by 3D coupling effect are so far not yet identified. In this book, the authors outline their practices by the working experiences on standardization and system design. This book...