The evolution of the prehensile tail illustrates the impact habitat can have on structural traits. Prehensile primates are able to support their entire body weight using only their tail, which opens up new feeding opportunities in their arboreal environments. This trait evolved separately in two families of New World monkeys. A transitional behaviour in its proposed evolutionary mechanism is ta...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective in vitro study of meniscoids in the cervical zygapophysial joints. OBJECTIVES.: To assess the use of high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a potential tool for evaluating meniscoids of the cervical zygapophysial joints. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Pain originating from the cervical spine is a frequent condition. It has been suggested that pathologic conditions...

aim: abnormal joint mobility is an important factor in movement dysfunction and physical disability. a general lack of descriptive details exists for measurements of hip rotation range of motion (rom). this study was designed to establish the influence of hip position on active and passive range of motion of the hip in external and internal rotation(ext & int rot). material & methods: ...

in this research, the influence of bolt preload on the fatigue strength of 2024-t3 aluminium alloy double lap bolted joints has been studied experimentally and numerically. to do so, three sets of the specimens were prepared and each of them subjected to tightening torque of 1,2.5 and 5 n-m and then fatigue tests were conducted under various cyclic axial load levels. in the numerical method, th...

abstract   background: sacroiliac joint (sij) dysfunction is a widely known but poorly defined   cause of low back pain. to our knowledge, few published studies have been   conducted to evaluate systematically the prevalence and significance of concomitant   sacroiliac joint dysfunction in patients with herniated lumbar discs. as concomitant   sij dysfunction in low back pain patients is likely...

abstract   background: sacroiliac joint (sij) dysfunction is a widely known but poorly defined cause of low back pain. to our knowledge, few published studies have been conducted to evaluate systematically the prevalence and significance of concomitant sacroiliac joint dysfunction in patients with herniated lumbar discs. as concomitant sij dysfunction in low back pain patients is likely to resp...

Spine-related pain and disability are some of the greatest preoccupations of clinicians and patients. Beyond`normal' aging of the elements of the spine, absolute degeneration of these spinal substructures eventually occurs. This at some point entails a superoinferior narrowing and eventual collapse of the intervertebral disk. Preceding or accompanying these diskal alterations, significant degen...

let ‎x be an ‎‎n-‎‎‎‎‎‎square complex matrix with the ‎cartesian decomposition ‎‎x = a + i ‎b‎‎‎‎‎, ‎where ‎‎a ‎and ‎‎b ‎are ‎‎‎n ‎‎times n‎ ‎hermitian ‎matrices. ‎it ‎is ‎known ‎that ‎‎$vert x vert_p^2 ‎leq 2(vert a vert_p^2 + vert b vert_p^2)‎‎‎$, ‎where ‎‎$‎p ‎‎geq 2‎$‎ ‎and ‎‎$‎‎vert . vert_p$ ‎is ‎the ‎schatten ‎‎‎‎p-norm.‎ ‎‎ ‎‎in this paper‎, this inequality and some of its improvements ...