With recent improvements in three-dimensional motion analysis, House is able to analyze motion at 1, 000 frames per second, up from 32 frames that the human eye can process.

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The hard corset significantly decreased lower-back or lumbar range of motion in all phases of the golf swing compared with the soft corset and no corset, the motion analysis showed.

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It can take a lot of effort to walk for people whose gait isn't smooth, and they are more prone to falls, according to Amy Bastian, director of the Motion Analysis Lab at Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore.

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But analysis of the motion of Ulysses, another space probe, has shown that it, too, is affected by the mysterious acceleration.

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Frame-by-frame analysis of the motion of individual soot particles then reveals how quickly gases within the fire are moving, and allows fire behaviour to be scrutinised in detail.

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In the early 17th century, Johannes Kepler worked out the laws of planetary motion as a result of years of analysis of the observations made by Tycho Brahe.

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Not only that, but having done strain analysis and designing the shirt with motion in mind, the Apollo line adapts to your movements and stays tucked in and wrinkle free all the live long day.

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