"Kinesis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Locomotor behavior not involving a steering reaction, but in which there may be a turning random in direction. It includes orthokinesis, the rate of movement and klinokinesis, the amount of turning, which are related to the intensity of stimulation.
| Descriptor ID |
D007698
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.113.700
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Kinesis" by people in Profiles.
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Kinematics and the implementation of an elephant's trunk manipulator and other continuum style robots. J Robot Syst. 2003 Feb; 20(2):45-63.
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Manipulability, force, and compliance analysis for planar continuum manipulators. IEEE Trans Rob Autom. 2002 Jun; 18(3):263-73.
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General coordination principles elucidated by forward dynamics: minimum fatique does not explain muscle excitation in dynamic tasks. Motor Control. 2000 Jan; 4(1):75-80; discussion 97-116.