Skull morphology results from the bone remodelling mechanism that underlies the specific bone growth dynamics. Histological study of the bone surface from Neanderthal mandible specimens of El Sidrón (Spain) provides information about the distribution of the remodelling fields (bone remodelling patterns or BRP) indicative of the bone growth directions. In comparison with other primate species, B...

The design of a modular floating multi-purpose island inherently involves interaction within group with large range backgrounds such as engineering, architecture, sociology, climate modeling, and more. A heuristic approach was adopted for future developers to make first conceptual design. Four major considerations were distinguished discretize the space: module size, shape, principle, connectio...

OBJECTIVES Physiologic dead space is associated with mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome, but its measurement is cumbersome. Alveolar dead space fraction relies on the difference between arterial and end-tidal carbon dioxide (alveolar dead space fraction = (PaCO2 - PetCO2) / PaCO2). We aimed to assess the relationship between alveolar dead space fraction and mortality in a cohort o...

Objective: The current study was conducted to investigate the role of internalizing and externalizing symptoms and social isolation due to Internet addiction and cyberspace use among teenage girls in 2016-2017 year.  Methods: The research method used in this study was cross-sectional. The study population included all girl students of the second grade public high schools of Tehran city during ...

Background: Oculo-palato-cerebral syndrome is an extremely rare condition characterized by various features, including low-birth weight, microcephaly, cerebral atrophy, mild-to-severe developmental delay, cleft palate, persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous, microphthalmia, small hands and feet, joint laxity, and large ears with thick helices. Diagnosis of this syndrome is based on the clinic...

The pattern of a matrix M is a (0, 1)-matrix which replaces all non-zero entries of M with a 1. A directed graph is said to support M if its adjacency matrix is the pattern of M . If M is an orthogonal matrix, then a digraph which supports M must satisfy a condition known as quadrangularity. We look at quadrangularity in tournaments and determine for which orders quadrangular tournaments exist....

In this article some new results are presented about planar quadrangle quality measures. On the one hand, a modi cation of the triangle quality measure based on the Frobenius norm is proposed, in order to comply with the case where the reference element is no longer equilateral, but a right isosceles triangle. Provided this modi cation, a natural use of the Frobenius norm for quadrangular eleme...

This article presents new enumerative results related to symmetric planar maps. In the first part a new way of enumerating rooted simple quadrangulations and rooted simple triangulations is presented, based on the description of two different quotient operations on symmetric simple quadrangulations and triangulations. In the second part, based on results of Bouttier, Di Francesco and Guitter an...