There are a number of factors that determine the overall outcome of total hip replacement (THR) surgery, some of which appear to be related to the surgical procedure. In particular, the inclination angle at which the acetabular component is placed has been reported to influence the long-term successful performance of THR. The present study assessed the influence of cup orientation on the wear o...

Aims. In the present work, the effect of near-degeneracy on rotational Petersen diagrams (RPD) is analysed. Methods. Seismic models are computed considering rotation effects on both equilibrium models and adiabatic oscillation frequencies (including second-order near-degeneracy effects). Contamination of coupled modes and coupling strength on the first radial modes are studied in detail. Result...

BACKGROUND Wireless, wearable, inertial motion sensor technology introduces new possibilities for monitoring spinal motion and pain in people during their daily activities of work, rest and play. There are many types of these wireless devices currently available but the precision in measurement and the magnitude of measurement error from such devices is often unknown. This study investigated th...

We have searched six stars with known radial velocity planetary companions for circumstellar disks. Disks are expected around stars with planetary systems that accreted from regular protoplanetary disks, and remnant disks are expected to be similar to our solar systemÏs Kuiper Belt. To date, we have detected circumstellar disks around three such stars : 55 Cnc, o CrB, and HD 210277. All these s...

The Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) will make precise astrometric measurements that can be used to detect planets around nearby stars. We have simulated SIM observations and estimated the ability of SIM to detect planets with given masses and orbital periods and measure their orbital elements. We combine these findings with an estimate of the mass and period distribution of planets determine...

• Drinking a bitter beverage increases happy participants' inclination to save money. • Drinking a bitter beverage decreases unhappy participants' inclination to save money. • Priming bitterness-related concepts increases happy participants' inclination to save money. • Priming bitterness-related concepts decreases unhappy participants' inclination to save money. • Drinking a bitter beverage de...

Orbital eccentricity is one of the basic planetary properties, whose distribution may shed light on history planet formation and evolution. Here, in a series works Planetary Orbit Eccentricity Trends (dubbed POET), we study eccentricities their dependence stellar/planetary properties. In this paper, first work POET series, investigate whether how small planets depend stellar metallicities (e.g....

We present a new method to classify galaxies from large surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using inclination-corrected concentration, inclination-corrected location on the color-magnitude diagram, and apparent axis ratio. Explicitly accounting for inclination tightens the distribution of each of these parameters and enables simple boundaries to be drawn that delineate three different gal...

The discovery of transiting extrasolar planets has enabled us a number of interesting stduies. Transit photometry reveals the radius and the orbital inclination of transiting planets, and thereby we can learn the true mass and the density of respective planets by the combined information of radial velocity measurements. In addition, follow-up observations of transiting planets such as secondary...