Although the cross-sectional relationship of arterial stiffness with cerebral small vessel disease is consistently shown in middle-aged and young-old adults, it is less clear whether these associations remain significant over time in very old adults. We hypothesize that arterial stiffness is longitudinally associated with white matter characteristics, and associations are stronger within waters...

The finite element model of the seven connection heads an automotive body in white is established, and stiffness calculation carried out by taking lower joint B pillar as example. Nine values were obtained for each branch, which can be written a 3 × symmetric matrix. front back bending stiffness, torsional internal external are with decoupling method. Based on this, unrigid rigid joints three r...

A constitutive model based on the continuum mechanics theory has been developed which represents interlamellar cohesion, regional variation of collagen fibril density, 3D anisotropy and both age-related viscoelastic and hyperelastic stiffening behaviour of the human cornea. Experimental data gathered from a number of previous studies on 48 ex vivo human cornea (inflation and shear tests) enable...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The proximal portion of the abdominal aorta (AA) is characterized by minimal arteriosclerosis compared with other aortic segments. To assess the clinical usefulness of this characteristic, the correlation between ultrasonographically measured proximal AA stiffness and brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) was examined. SUBJECTS AND METHODS 285 subjects were anal...

We consider an algebraic derivation of multilevel preconditioners which are based on a sequence of finite element stiffness matrices. They correspond to a sequence of triangulations obtained by successive refinement and the associated finite element discretizations of second-order selfadjoint elliptic boundary value problems. The stiffness matrix at a given discretization level is partitioned i...

OBJECTIVES Genome wide association studies have consistently reported associations between a region on chromosome 9p21.3 and a broad range of vascular diseases, such as coronary artery disease (CAD), aortic and intracranial aneurysms and type-2 diabetes (T2D). However, clear associations with intermediate phenotypes have not been described so far. To shed light on a possible influence of this c...

The scattering of guided waves through a coupling region is crucial information when studying waveguides. In this paper, the second strain gradient theory (SSG) used to describe wave transmission and reflection in three-dimensional micro-sized medium. First, constitutive relation 3D SSG model derived while six quintic Hermite polynomial shape functions are for displacement field. Then Hamilton’...

INTRODUCTION It has been shown that walking kinematics remain near to normal after mobile bearing total ankle replacement (TAR). However, no information is available on mechanical joint loading. The purpose of this study was to determine whether mechanical load and 'quasi-stiffness' of the ankle joint after TAR differs from the normal load and stiffness of a healthy ankle joint during walking. ...

BACKGROUND A cross-sectional study was carried out in 415 hypertensive and normotensive subjects to determine the correlation between loaned self-measurement blood pressure (LSEM), arterial stiffness, and the different factors that contribute to it. METHODS The LSEM model consists of lending a number of sphygmomanometers, property of the clinic, to patients for 3-day periods. Arterial stiffne...

Blood pressure (BP) changes with age. We conducted a cross-sectional study in rural Chinese adults to investigate: (1) what is the relationship between age, arterial stiffness, and BP in Chinese men and women; and (2) to what degree can the age-BP relationship be explained by arterial stiffness, controlling for other covariables. These analyses included a total of 1688 subjects (males/females: ...