OBJECTIVES Preservation of both anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) can lead to near-normal post-operative joint mechanics and improved knee function. We hypothesised that a patient-specific bicruciate-retaining prosthesis preserves near-normal kinematics better than standard off-the-shelf posterior cruciate-retaining and bicruciate-retaining prostheses in...

Reinforced earth (RE) walls work as gravity-retaining structures which these composite rely on the self-weight of reinforced soil mass to resist lateral loads from pressure, surcharges vehicles, earthquakes, and water pressure. The type compacted backfill material at zone reinforcement length that was designed constructed has a capability form reinforced-soil provides sufficient stabilize overa...

Managing a connection between two hosts in a network is an important service to provide in order to make the network useful for many applications. The two main subproblems are the management of serial incarnations of a connection and the transfer of messages within an incarnation. This paper investigates whether it is necessary for connection management protocols to retain state information acr...

This paper investigates the application of a nested logit model to urban transit networks where every set of competitive transit lines is described by a particular graph structure called hyperpath. It shows that the nested logit model transcends the inherent limitations of the simple logit model while retaining the algorithmic advantages similar to that obtained with the ordinary logit model fo...

Abstract Retaining wall type contiguous pile is a structure that serves to hold and stabilize the soil in certain conditions. walls can be deformed by various factors. This research on retaining compares deformation results between actual data, finite element method with Mohr - Coulomb, Soft Soil Hardening parameters, find safety factor based SNI Geotechnical 8460:2017. The result of this value...

A hierarchical test generation method is presented that uses the inherent hierarchical structure of the circuit under test and takes fault diagnosability into account right from the start. An efficient test compaction method leads to a very compact test set, while retaining a maximum of diagnostic power and a 100% fault coverage for non-fanout circuits. An extension for fanout circuits is also ...

Current cell sheet-based blood vessels lack biomimetic structure and require excessively long culture times that may compromise smooth muscle cell phenotype. We modified a commercially available product for uniaxial cell sheet conditioning with thermoresponsive copolymers. Thus, culture of detachable conditioned cell sheets is shortened while retaining structural integrity and contractility.