What is already known about this topic?Unintentional injuries among children aged under five years is still a serious public health problem in China.Epidemiological characteristics of under-five unintentional injury a...What is already known about this topic?Unintentional injuries among children aged under five years is still a serious public health problem in China.Epidemiological characteristics of under-five unintentional injury are reported in single provinces and cities for China but not nationally based on the Disease Surveillance Points(DSPs)dataset.What is added by this report?Unintentional injury mortality rates for under-five decreased substantially between 2006 and 2017 in China,with the decrease occurring primarily for males and rural children.Children living in rural areas and males had higher unintentional injury mortality rates than children in urban areas and females.The major fatal types of under-five unintentional injury were drowning and road injury.What are the implications for public health practice?Further interventions need to be taken in accordance with the main types of unintentional injuries,especially effective prevention strategies used in other countries or recommended by the World Health Organization(WHO).Even with equal access to injury prevention and control services for different sexes,policy efforts should focus on higher-risk populations,especially children aged under five years who are males or reside in rural areas.展开更多
To develop sophisticated and efficient control strategies for exoskeleton devices,acquiring the information of interaction forces between the wearer and the wearable device is essential.However,obtaining the interacti...To develop sophisticated and efficient control strategies for exoskeleton devices,acquiring the information of interaction forces between the wearer and the wearable device is essential.However,obtaining the interaction force via conventional methods,such as direct measurement using force sensors,is problematic.This paper proposes a kinematic data-based estimation method to evaluate the interaction force between human lower limbs and passive exoskeleton links during level ground walking.Unlike conventional methods,the proposed method requires no force sensors and is computationally cheaper to obtain the calculation results.To obtain more accurate kinematic data,a marker refinement algorithm based on bilevel optimization framework is adopted.The interaction force is evaluated by a spring model,which is used to imitate the binding behavior between human limbs and the exoskeleton links.The deflection of the spring model is calculated based on the assumption that the phase delay between human limb and exoskeleton link can be presented by the sequence of frames of kinematic data.Experimental results of six subjects indicate that our proposed method can estimate the interaction forces during level ground walking.Moreover,a case study of bandage location optimization is conducted to demonstrate the usefulness of obtaining the interaction information.展开更多
文摘What is already known about this topic?Unintentional injuries among children aged under five years is still a serious public health problem in China.Epidemiological characteristics of under-five unintentional injury are reported in single provinces and cities for China but not nationally based on the Disease Surveillance Points(DSPs)dataset.What is added by this report?Unintentional injury mortality rates for under-five decreased substantially between 2006 and 2017 in China,with the decrease occurring primarily for males and rural children.Children living in rural areas and males had higher unintentional injury mortality rates than children in urban areas and females.The major fatal types of under-five unintentional injury were drowning and road injury.What are the implications for public health practice?Further interventions need to be taken in accordance with the main types of unintentional injuries,especially effective prevention strategies used in other countries or recommended by the World Health Organization(WHO).Even with equal access to injury prevention and control services for different sexes,policy efforts should focus on higher-risk populations,especially children aged under five years who are males or reside in rural areas.
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant nos.61603284 and 61903286.
文摘To develop sophisticated and efficient control strategies for exoskeleton devices,acquiring the information of interaction forces between the wearer and the wearable device is essential.However,obtaining the interaction force via conventional methods,such as direct measurement using force sensors,is problematic.This paper proposes a kinematic data-based estimation method to evaluate the interaction force between human lower limbs and passive exoskeleton links during level ground walking.Unlike conventional methods,the proposed method requires no force sensors and is computationally cheaper to obtain the calculation results.To obtain more accurate kinematic data,a marker refinement algorithm based on bilevel optimization framework is adopted.The interaction force is evaluated by a spring model,which is used to imitate the binding behavior between human limbs and the exoskeleton links.The deflection of the spring model is calculated based on the assumption that the phase delay between human limb and exoskeleton link can be presented by the sequence of frames of kinematic data.Experimental results of six subjects indicate that our proposed method can estimate the interaction forces during level ground walking.Moreover,a case study of bandage location optimization is conducted to demonstrate the usefulness of obtaining the interaction information.
