Socket is an important part of every prosthetic limb as an interface between the residual limb and prosthetic components. Biomechanics of socket-residual limb interface, especially the pressure and force distribution, have effect on patient satisfaction and function. This paper aimed to review and evaluate studies conducted in the last decades on the design of socket, in-socket interface pressu...

Dynamic inheritance, originating in the Self programming language, is the ability of an object to change the code that it inherits at run time. This ability is useful for modeling objects that behave in different ways at different points in the object’s lifecycle. Unstructured dynamic inheritance, however, allows arbitrary changes to the interface of the object, and thus is incompatible with st...

Dry socket, or alveolar osteitis, can occur because of the removal of teeth. No clear etiology has been acknowledged; however, numerous risk factors have been proposed and tested. We report on the results of a prospective, multicenter study of the incidence and factors affecting the occurrence of alveolar osteitis at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne and Community Dental Clinics in Melbour...

The prosthetic socket remains the number one priority for persons with lower-limb amputation because a user’s comfort depends on the socket fit. This review analyzes the effect of current prosthetic socket designs, focusing on patient-reported outcomes measures, with the aim to provide a basis for socket prescription. Results from the 19 included studies show that total surface bearing sockets ...

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of an UDP-based socket that utilizes multiple network interface units connected through one or more networks. The socket is a middleware layer that provides abstract network APIs to hide low-level technical details from users. Parallel message fragmentation and reconstruction techniques and a reliable UDP-based protocol are introduced. Th...

We studied wear in the ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene offset bore socket in 54 hips which had had Charnley low-friction arthroplasty. At an average follow-up of 8.1 years, the mean penetration rate was 0.04 mm per year. Correlation between the depth of socket penetration and the incidence of socket migration was confirmed, but socket migration occurred with lower penetration than had ...

This study served as a pilot to develop the methodology for a larger number of clinical trials. Ten trans-tibial amputees compared sockets made by conventional methods with sockets made using computer aided socket design (CASD). Prosthetists, paired for experience, fitted each subject with one prosthesis using each method. A preferred socket was selected by the subject on the basis of comfort w...

The IPv6 default address selection document (RFC 3484) describes the rules for selecting source and destination IPv6 addresses, and indicates that applications should be able to reverse the sense of some of the address selection rules through some unspecified API. However, no such socket API exists in the basic (RFC 3493) or advanced (RFC 3542) IPv6 socket API documents. This document fills tha...

Tangential pressure (TP) , as defined in this study, is that pressure parallel to and located at the socket inner face. The talrgential pressure resultant (TP,) will possess a horizontal component (TP,) directed along an axis perpendicular to the main socket axis and a vertical component (TP,) directed along the main socket axis (see Fig. 1). The plane in which all tangential pressures exist is...