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Equinosis Honors the life of Dr. Yoshiharu Yonezawa Equinosis Q Co-inventor
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It is with great sadness that Equinosis reports the recent death of Dr. Yoshiharu Yonezawa, co-inventor of Lameness Locator. Dr. Yonezawa, “Yoshi”, was a former professor and dean of the Department of Applied Information Science at the Hiroshima Institute of Technology in Japan, prolific scientific author and electronic device inventor, and frequent visiting professor at the University of Missouri, College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Kevin Keegan and Dr. Yonezawa first met at a Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1999, while Dr. Keegan was presenting results of kinematic studies of lameness in horses. “It was at this...
Changes coming in LLTouch: Thresholds VS. Reference Ranges
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The experimentally determined thresholds for Lameness Locator® metrics should be thought of as the boundaries of reference ranges for a heterogenous sample of horses considered to be subjectively not lame (i.e. grade 0 on the AAEP scale). Thresholds are not meant to be considered as hard lines drawn in the sand. However, the term "threshold" conveys a binary meaning to many people - lame on one side of the line, not lame on the other side - even though it is not necessarily true. For this reason, Equinosis will be transitioning to the use of the term "reference range" which...
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Equinosis Honors the life of Dr. Yoshiharu Yonezawa Equinosis Q Co-inventor
Changes coming in LLTouch: Thresholds VS. Reference Ranges