Failed reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in a young, active patient represents a difficult clinical problem. Numerous factors contribute to failure, including repeat trauma, technical errors, biologic influences, or a combination of causes. Technical errors commonly include femoral and tibial tunnel malposition, inadequate graft fixation, failure to address associated poste...

We propose a model to create synthetic networks that may also serve as a narrative of a certain kind of infrastructure network evolution. It consists of an initialization phase with the network extending tree-like for minimum cost and a growth phase with an attachment rule giving a trade-off between cost-optimization and redundancy. Furthermore, we implement the feature of some lines being spli...

We have performed an ecliptic imaging survey of the Kuiper belt with our deepest and widest field achieving a limiting flux of m(g)50% ∼ 26.4, with a sky coverage of 3.0 square-degrees. This is the largest coverage of any other Kuiper belt survey to this depth. We detect 72 objects, two of which have been previously observed. We have improved the Bayesian maximum likelihood fitting technique pr...

The aim of this paper is to describe a systematic way of constructing effective divisors on Mg having exceptionally small slope. In particular, these divisors provide a string of counterexamples to the Harris-Morrison Slope Conjecture (cf. [HMo]). In a previous paper [FP], we showed that the divisor K10 on M10 consisting of sections of K3 surfaces contradicts the Slope Conjecture on M10. Since ...

We studied the relationship between myocardial contractile state and left ventricular functional response to exercise in 14 asymptomatic patients with isolated moderate-to-severe aortic regurgitation and six control subjects. The slope of the systolic blood pressure-left ventricular end-systolic volume (pressure-volume) relationship determined by radionuclide ventriculography during angiotensin...

In this paper, we present a plane sweep algorithm for constructing the Voronoi diagram of a set of non-crossing line segments in 2D space using a distance metric induced by a regular k-gon and study the robustness of the algorithm. Following the algorithmic degree model [G. Liotta, F.P. Preparata, R. Tamassia, Robust proximity queries: an illustration of degree-driven algorithm design, SIAM J. ...

In many real-world statistical problems, we observe a large number of potentially explanatory variables of which a majority may be irrelevant. For this type of problem, controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) guarantees that most of the discoveries are truly explanatory and thus replicable. In this talk, we propose a new method named SLOPE to control the FDR in sparse high-dimensional linear...

A model was developed for estimating average annual soil loss by water on hillslope for cropland, which is called Chines Soil Loss Equation (CSLE). Six factors causing soil loss were evaluated based on soil loss data collected from experiment stations covering most regions of China and modified to the scale of Chinese unit plot defined. The model uses an empirical multiplicative equation, A=RKL...

[1] We study the polarization properties of the light field under a dynamic ocean surface using realistic linear and nonlinear ocean surface waves. The three-dimensional polarized radiative transfer of the dynamic ocean–atmosphere system is considered using a Monte Carlo vector radiative transfer simulation for arbitrary depth. The program is validated with measurement data taken in Hawaii duri...

introduction: nowadays,  considerable developments  in  the field  of  radiotherapy have  been  achieved.  they  include  the  advances  made  in  the  equipments  and  treatment  planning  techniques  which  require  highly complex calculations. such achievements have made it possible to treat cancer patients not only  with  higher  radiation  dose  but  also  with  higher  precision  and  con...