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Understanding mammalian locomotion : concepts and applications /
"Understanding Mammalian Locomotion will formally introduce the emerging perspective of collision dynamics in mammalian terrestrial locomotion and explain how it influences the interpretation of form and functional capabilities. The objective is to bring the reader interested in the function an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.