The sound of a bullet hitting a target is sometimes discernable in an audio recording of a shooting event and can be used to determine the distance from shooter to target. This paper provides an example where the microphone is adjacent to the shooter and presents the simple mathematics needed in cases where the microphone is adjacent to the target. Spectrograms of the sound of bullet impact on ...

Comment: This patient had been treated at one point in her course with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), with no effect. Immunocytochemical studies for sarcoglycans, dystrophin, and merosin were all normal. However, there was complete absence of dysferlin, which is also expressed in the sarcolemma at a point different from dystrophin. It was noted that there can be secondary loss of dysferlin ...

This paper examines the viewing experience of a new social experiment that combines videos with text messaging technology called Bullet Screen. Our results show that this technology provides a more engaging viewing experience than a traditional online video. Our results also show that bullet screen can increase viewers’ attention to content. These results have important implications for social ...

I. INTRODUCTION Object-oriented design and development are popular concepts in today's software development environment. They are often heralded as the silver bullet for solving software problems. While in reality there is no silver bullet, object-oriented development has proved its value for systems that must be maintained and modified. Object-oriented software development requires a different...

We report an unusual use of the arthroscope in the case of a man who accidentally shot himself through his left thigh, the bullet ending up in the ipsilateral knee joint. After radiographic diagnosis, the bullet was successfully removed through a standard arthroscopic procedure. The patient had a quick and complete recovery. Review of the literature and the 4 steps of successful management of g...

This paper presents an agent-based model of peer review that looks at the effect of different editorial policies of referee selection. We tested four author/referee matching scenarios as follows: random selection of referees, selection of referees with a similar status to submission authors, selection of higher-skilled and lower skilled referees. We tested these scenarios against three types of...

Foreign body migration into the vasculature and subsequent embolization is a rare complication of both medical procedures and penetrating trauma. Endovascular filters, wires, and pins have been found to travel through the vasculature resulting in a variety of complications, including death [1]. In the case of penetrating trauma, the incidence of bullet migration into the vasculature is approxim...

traumatic false aneurysm of the thoracic aorta is not uncommon. but accordingly this case is unusual in its ten year delay between injury and presentation and treatment. a victim of the iran-iraq war is presented with a false aneurysm of the thoracic aorta ten years after a bullet injury to the chest and thoracic spine. penetrating chest wounds, mechanisms of injury and diagnosis are also discu...

The objective of this research was to develop realistic computational models for soft tissues subjected to finite deformation and failure, and to test these models in the context of numerical simulations of penetrating trauma injuries. A transversely isotropic hyperelastic model with strain-based failure criteria was used to represent the behavior of anisotropic soft tissue. The constitutive mo...

The Bullet server is an innovative file server that outperforms traditional file servers like SUN’s NFS by more than a factor of three. It achieves high throughput and low delay by a radically different software design than current file servers in use. Instead of storing files as a sequence of disk blocks, each Bullet server file is stored contiguously, both on disk and in the server’s RAM cach...