Fish gelatin films made from Alaska pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) and Alaska pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) were dried at 4 C, 23 C, 40 C, and 60 C. The tensile, thermal, thermal stability, water sorption, and water vapor permeability properties were examined for cold-cast gelatin films (dried below gelation temperature at 4 C) and hot-cast gelatin films (dried above gelation temperatur...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of and risk factors for complications associated with casts in horses. DESIGN Multicenter retrospective case series. ANIMALS 398 horses with a half-limb or full-limb cast treated at 1 of 4 hospitals. PROCEDURES Data collected from medical records included age, breed, sex, injury, limb affected, time from injury to hospital admission, surgical procedure...

Implant malposition after breast augmentation surgery remains a common complication. Several surgical options exist to correct the resultant deformity; however, all involve additional risks, costs, and the increased potential for patient dissatisfaction. In my practice, I have developed a nonsurgical therapy using shoelaces, which, when tied and placed in a certain fashion, can correct this def...

This technical report describes E-Cast: a uniform causal-total-order multicast protocol designed to implement fault tolerant, highly elastic, yet strongly consistent database engines in the cloud. In contrast to traditional group communication, the model underlying E-Cast defines multicast as a stateful routing problem. In this document, we provide a rigorous formalization of the routing proble...

In a language with non-parametric or ad-hoc polymorphism, it is possible to determine the identity of a type variable at run time. With this facility, we can write a function to convert a term from one abstract type to another, if the two hidden types are identical. However, the naive implementation of this function requires that the term be destructed and rebuilt. In this paper, we show how to...

Cast iron (CI) is one of the oldest materials in commercial use. It has excellent compressive strength and is commonly used for structures that require this property, as well as for water and sewer lines. This article explains CI metallurgy and why the understanding of this metallurgy is key to understanding other ferrous materials and alloys. The composition of cast iron (CI) varies significan...

Pressure measurements were made at four sites on the right foot of six normal subjects while they walked in a standard shoe, conventional padded cast, total contact cast, and again in a shoe. No differences in mean relative pressure were found between the padded cast and the total-contact cast. Significant reductions in mean relative pressure were found between the standard shoe and walking cas...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Little peer-reviewed information is available regarding the accuracy and reproducibility of digitally fabricated casts compared to conventional nondigital methods. PURPOSE The purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the accuracy and reproducibility of a digital impression and cast fabrication with a conventional impression and cast fabrication. MATERIAL AND METHOD...