Understanding mammalian locomotion : concepts and applications /
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley Blackwell,
[2016]
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Understanding mammalian locomotion : concepts and applications. |
Obsah:
- 1 Concepts through time: historical perspectives on mammalian locomotion / John E.A. Bertram
- 2 Considering gaits: descriptive approaches / John E.A. Bertram
- 3 Muscles as actuators / Anne K. Gutmann and John E.A. Bertram
- 4 Concepts in locomotion: levers, struts, pendula and springs / John E.A. Bertram
- 5 Concepts in locomotion: wheels, spokes, collisions and insight from the center of mass / John E.A. Bertram
- 6 Reductionist models of walking and running / James R. Usherwood
- 7 Whole-body mechanics: how leg compliance shapes the way we move / Andre Seyfarth, Hartmut Geyer, Susanne Lipfert, J. Rummel, Yvonne Blum, M. Maus and D. Maykranz
- 8 The most important feature of an organism's biology: dimension, similarity and scale / John E.A. Bertram
- 9 Accounting for the influence of animal size on biomechanical variables: concepts and considerations / Sharon Bullimore
- 10 Locomotion in small tetrapods: size-based limitations to "universal rules" in locomotion / Audrone R. Biknevicius, Stephen M. Reilly and Elvedin Kljuno
- 11 Non-steady locomotion / Monica A. Daley
- 12 The evolution of terrestrial locomotion in bats: the bad, the ugly, and the good / Daniel K. Riskin, John E.A. Bertram and John W. Hermanson
- 13 The fight or flight dichotomy: functional trade-off in specialization for aggression versus locomotion / David R. Carrier
- 14 Design for prodigious size without extreme body mass: dwarf elephants, differential scaling and implications for functional adaptation / John E.A. Bertram
- 15 Basic mechanisms of bipedal locomotion: head-supported loads and strategies to reduce the cost of walking / James R. Usherwood and John E.A. Bertram
- 16 Would a horse on the moon gallop? Directions available in locomotion research (and how not to spend too much time exploring blind alleys) / John E.A. Bertram.