# positions[].organizations[].parent[].label
College of Education and Human Development

# overview
Dr. Yentes' research focuses on functional resiliency and reserve in older adults. Using objective measures of reserve, Dr. Yentes works to understand how resilience and reserve in middle-age can potentially predict accelerated aging in later life.

She has lead a research inquiry of coupling between biorhythms - how do breathing and walking entrain to one another - for performance, including in persons with pulmonary disease.

In addition, Dr. Yentes has begun a series of projects investigating the biomechanics of firefighting skills. Her work, in collaboration with the TEEX Fire Academy, is investigating the effect of bunker gear on the physical demands of performing skills.

Her training primarily focuses on gait and postural control as well as using dynamic systems (nonlinear mathematics) to quantify movement data.

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1.1 Normal Biological Development And Functioning

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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4201 Allied Health And Rehabilitation Science

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4201 Allied Health And Rehabilitation Science

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Physical Injury - Accidents And Adverse Effects

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4201 Allied Health And Rehabilitation Science

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4201 Allied Health And Rehabilitation Science

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University of Nebraska Medical Center - (Omaha, Nebraska, United States)

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University of Northern Colorado - (Greeley, Colorado, United States)

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Kinesiology, emphasis in Biomechanics; Minor in Nutrition

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California State University, Fullerton - (Fullerton, California, United States)

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Calculating sample entropy from isometric torque signals: methodological considerations and recommendations.

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Does Affect Gait

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Lower extremity injury in female basketball players is related to a large difference in peak eversion torque between barefoot and shod conditions

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Gait mechanics in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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An unstable shoe with a rocker bottom redistributes external work

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The Effect Of Exercise Intervention On Gait In Patients With COPD: Findings From A Pilot Study

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Trunk Velocity Changes in Response to Physical Perturbations Are Potential Indicators of Gait Stability.

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Margin of Stability May Be Larger and Less Variable during Treadmill Walking Versus Overground.

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Energy efficient physiologic coupling of gait and respiration is altered in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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The Likelihood of Self-reporting Balance Problems in Those With Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease, Slow Gait Speed, or Low Vitamin D.

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The Effect of Walking Speed on Gait Variability in Healthy Young, Middle-aged and Elderly Individuals.

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THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF BRAIN CONNECTIVITY ON DUAL-TASK PERFORMANCE: A PILOT STUDY

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Alterations in Cortical Activation Among Individuals With Chronic Ankle Instability During Single-Limb Postural Control.

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Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Walk with Altered Step Time and Step Width Variability as Compared with Healthy Control Subjects.

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients increase medio-lateral stability and limit changes in antero-posterior stability to curb energy expenditure.

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PERIPHERAL FATIGUE DOES NOT INFLUENCE THE ONSET OF FATIGUE IN OLDER ADULTS

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OPTIC FLOW IMPROVES SPATIAL GAIT FUNCTIONING ESPECIALLY IN MEDIOLATERAL DIRECTION

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EFFECTS OF VIRTUAL UPHILL WALKING ON ENERGY EXPENDITURE AND LOCOMOTOR-RESPIRATORY COUPLING

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Measuring Coupling of Rhythmical Time Series Using Cross Sample Entropy and Cross Recurrence Quantification Analysis.

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Frequency Band Analysis of Multiple Stationary Time Series.

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Characterization of Gait Kinematics and Muscle Function in Becker Muscular Dystrophy Pigs: a pilot study.

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TASK SPECIFICITY IMPACTS DUAL TASK INTERFERENCE IN OLDER ADULTS

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Patients With COPD Walk With A More Periodic Step Width Pattern As Compared To Healthy Controls

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The effect of United States firefighters' personal protective equipment on mobility and functional task performance: A scoping review.

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Effects of contralateral versus ipsilateral cane use on gait in people with knee osteoarthritis.

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Patients with MS exhibit increased predictability during gait and posture tasks

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Strength of Plantar- and Dorsiflexors Mediates Step Regularity During a High Cognitive Load Situation in a Cross-sectional Cohort of Older and Younger Adults.

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Reliability of a Feedback-Controlled Treadmill Algorithm Dependent on the User's Behavior

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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COPD Patients Have a Restricted Breathing Pattern That Persists with Increased Metabolic Demands.

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Plantar pressure regularity is increased under the lateral forefoot in the elderly

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P21The relationship between centre of pressure and body mass index in individuals with chronic ankle instability

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On the application of entropic half-life and statistical persistence decay for quantification of time dependency in human gait.

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On the calculation of sample entropy using continuous and discrete human gait data.

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Spatiotemporal Changes Posttreatment in Peripheral Arterial Disease.

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On the choice of multiscale entropy algorithm for quantification of complexity in gait data.

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High Cognitive Load Situations Decrease Both Gait and Cognitive Performance

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Predicting Fall Risk with Plantar Pressure Equipment in Individuals with Diabetes

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Updated Perspectives on the Role of Biomechanics in COPD: Considerations for the Clinician.

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The appropriate use of approximate entropy and sample entropy with short data sets.

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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy and Exercise

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Methodological considerations for a non-linear analysis of running in the heavy and severe intensity domains.

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Optic flow improves step width and length in older adults while performing dual task.

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WIRELESS, BATTERY FREE WEARABLE ELECTRONIC NOSE

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Pharmacological treatment of intermittent claudication does not have a significant effect on gait impairments during claudication pain.

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Evaluation of two cane instruments in older adults with knee osteoarthritis.

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Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development

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Do lower-extremity joint dynamics change when stair negotiation is initiated with a self-selected comfortable gait speed?

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Postural control strategy during standing is altered in patients with multiple sclerosis.

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Poster 274: Effect of Contralateral and Ipsilateral Cane Use on Peak Vertical Force

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Effects of footwear on medial knee osteoarthritis.

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Passive Exoskeleton-Assisted Gait Shows a Unique Interlimb Coordination Signature Without Restricting Regular Walking.

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ASSOCIATION OF VITAMIN D WITH PERCEIVED BALANCE AND MEASURED GAIT SPEED IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE

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Sampling rate influences the regularity analysis of temporal domain measures of walking more than spatial domain measures.

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Attention is associated with postural control in those with chronic ankle instability.

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Walking speed and spatiotemporal step mean measures are reliable during feedback-controlled treadmill walking; however, spatiotemporal step variability is not reliable.

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Gait deficiencies associated with peripheral artery disease are different than chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Stress Influences Performance: Insights Into Designing High Cognitive Load Rehab Tasks

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INCREASED DIFFICULTY OF DUAL-MOTOR TASKS EFFECTS STEP LENGTH IN YOUNG AND OLDER HEALTHY ADULTS

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Introducing Statistical Persistence Decay: A Quantification of Stride-to-Stride Time Interval Dependency in Human Gait.

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EFFECT OF SELF-PACED WALKING ON REDUCING COGNITIVE DEMANDS OF WALKING WHILE TALKING

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Effect of parameter selection on entropy calculation for long walking trials.

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COPD Affects Variability in Spatiotemporal Gait Patterns

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Postural Control in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: What are the Most Striking Specificities and How Can They be Quantified?

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Clinical and spatiotemporal gait effects of canes in hip osteoarthritis.

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Immediate effects of contralateral and ipsilateral cane use on normal adult gait.

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Defining the concept of physical resilience and quantifying recovery during standing balance in middle-aged and older adults.

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Subjects With COPD Walk With Less Consistent Organization of Movement Patterns of the Lower Extremity.

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Alterations in stride-to-stride fluctuations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease during a self-paced treadmill 6-minute walk test.

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Bimanual load carriage alters sway patterns and step width.

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O19 Cortical activation variability is altered in individuals with chronic ankle instability during single limb postural control

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Task specificity impacts dual-task interference in older adults.

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Isometric force complexity may not fully originate from the nervous system.

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Cognitive Loading Produces Similar Change in Postural Stability in Patients With Chronic Ankle Instability and Controls.

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Interaction between step-to-step variability and metabolic cost of transport during human walking.

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Movement variability: A perspective on success in sports, health, and life.

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Abstracts of the American College of Rheumatology & Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals, Annual Scientific Meeting. November 6-11, 2010. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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Entropy Analysis in Gait Research: Methodological Considerations and Recommendations.

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Frontal joint dynamics when initiating stair ascent from a walk versus a stand.

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Cognitive Processing during Gait and Balance: A Review

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Walking abnormalities are associated with COPD: An investigation of the NHANES III dataset.

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HIGH COGNITIVE LOAD SITUATIONS WITH DIFFERENT CONVERSATION TOPICS AFFECT WALKING SPEED AND COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY

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Passive exoskeleton assisted treadmill walking reduces duration and synchrony of inter-limb coordination

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Sampling frequency influences sample entropy of kinematics during walking.

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The Effect of a Short Duration, High Intensity Exercise Intervention on Gait Biomechanics in Patients With COPD: Findings From a Pilot Study.

# researcherOn[].label
Inducing variable breathing ratios during walking to improve exercise capacity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
Veterans Health Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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SCH: A multimodal wearable device to measure physiologic coupling

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Improving exercise capacity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients through uphill walking

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Department of Veterans Affairs - (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)

# organizations[]
College of Education and Human Development

# schools[]
College of Education and Human Development

# inTheNews[].label
Caldwell students introduced to innovative science

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Texas A&M Professors Share Their ‘Voices Of Impact’

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Texas A&M Celebrates National Biomechanics Day at Local School

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Higgins, Cary Madison (2024-05). Evaluating the Attentional Demand of Visual and Auditory Stimuli on Adolescents with ADHD Using a Dual Task Paradigm. Master's Thesis.