OBJECTIVE We developed a new surgical model of penile girth enhancement in dog, with minimal damage, fewer complications, and high success rate, to enable the experimental investigation of penile implants. METHODS We obtained materials for penile girth enhancement by processing the pericardium and blood vessel wall collected from pigs. Incisions were made at the penile bulb for the implantati...

In this paper we give lower bounds on the size of (a, b) elementary trapping sets (ETSs) belonging to variable-regular LDPC codes with any girth, g, and irregular ones with girth 8, where a is the size, b is the number of degree-one check nodes and satisfy the inequality b a < 1. Our proposed lower bounds are analytical, rather than exhaustive search-based, and based on graph theories. The nume...

Welding quality control is an important parameter for safe operation of oil and gas pipes, especially for high-strength steel pipes. Size control of welding defect is a bottleneck problem for current pipe construction. As a key part of construction procedure for butt-welding of pipes, pore defects in girth weld is difficult to ignore. A three-dimensional non-linear finite element numerical mode...

Patterns of fetal growth predict non-communicable disease risk in adult life, but fetal growth variability appears to have a relatively weak association with maternal nutritional dynamics during pregnancy. This challenges the interpretation of fetal growth variability as 'adaptation'. We hypothesized that associations of maternal size and nutritional status with neonatal size are mediated by th...

We prove the Girth Alternative for finitely generated subgroups of PLo(I). We also prove that a finitely generated subgroup of Homeo+(I) which is sufficiently rich with hyperbolic-like elements has infinite girth.

The present study aimed to estimate heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlations between body weight and body measurement traits in Iranian Makuei sheep. The used data were collected from 1989 to 2012 at Makuei Sheep Breeding Station in Maku (West Azarbayjan province). The data included body weight and five body measurement traits (body length (BL), heart girth (HG), withers height (WH), r...

The present study was undertaken to identify the best estimator(s) of body weight based on various linear morphometric measures in Landlly pigs using artificial neural network (ANN) and non-linear regression models at three life stages (4th, 6th 8th week). Twenty-four different measurements were taken 279 piglets individually all their correlations with elucidated. traits high correlation (≥0.8...

Mangroves contribute to mitigating climate change by storing carbon. As mangrove forests have a high rate of carbon sequestration and storage, stock calculations are required quantify the accumulation stored in site determine its involvement decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. This study aims estimate storage at Mangrove Information Center (MIC) using an allometric calculation above-ground bio...

I N connection with the record of performance work carried out at the U.S.D.A. Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, various body measurements of each steer were taken at a live weight of approximately 900 pounds. This work was undertaken to determine whether any association existed between body measurements and the slaughter grade, carcass grade, and dressing percentage of the steers. If such...

We study the problem of determining the girth of an unweighted undirected graph. We obtain several new efficient approximation algorithms for graphs with n nodes and m edges and unknown girth g. We consider additive and multiplicative approximations. Additive Approximations. We present: • an Õ(n/m)-time algorithm which returns a cycle of length at most g + 2 if g is even and g + 3 if g is odd. ...