background: abnormal angulation of the lunate can be an indication of intercarpal pathology. on magnetic resonance images (mris) the lunate often looks dorsally angulated, even in healthy wrists. the tilt on individual slices can also be different and might be misinterpreted as pathological, contributing to inaccurate diagnoses and unnecessary surgery. the primary aim of this study was to deter...

conclusions although some of the orthopedic surgeons are not interested to manage these fractures surgically and most of them treat these cases conservatively (casting, etc.), in most displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures, surgical treatment is the method of choice. moreover, in non-surgical treatment the prevalence of these complications among the patients is more and as a result, inev...

We prove the following result. Let G be an undirected graph. If G has a nowhere zero ow with at most k di erent values, then it also has one with values from the set f1; : : : ; kg. When k 5, this is a trivial consequence of Seymour's \sixow theorem". When k 4 our proof is based on a lovely number theoretic problem which we call the \Lonely Runner Conjecture". Suppose k runners having nonzero c...

RHex is an untethered, compliant leg hexapod robot that travels at better than one body length per second over terrain few other robots can negotiate at all. Inspired by biomechanics insights into arthropod locomotion, RHex uses a clock excited alternating tripod gait to walk and run in a highly maneuverable and robust manner. We present empirical data establishing that RHex exhibits a dynamica...

ABSTRACT Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a necrotrophic pathogen that devastates the yields of numerous crop species, including beans. The disease in common bean and pea is referred to as white mold. We examined the relationship between oxalate, an established virulence factor of S. sclerotiorum, and partial white mold resistance of scarlet runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus). P. coccineus genotypes ...

Introduction. Cor triatriatum is a rare congenital heart disease found incidentally in children. Although cor triatriatum can be an incidental finding in asymptomatic adults; it is extremely rare to find elderly patients without symptoms and is unique in a long distance runner. Case Presentation. We present the case of an 83-year-old long-distance runner with cor triatriatum sinistrum and atria...

The paper presents the results of an experimental study a vertical wind turbine type Darrieus with frontal cylindrical guide vane unit. main goal research is to analyze influence geometry classical unit on active and passive zone turbine. aerodynamic scheme synthesized by classic runner vanes. Three different guiding devices model frontally located vanes have been studied. Their characteristics...

Modern design method can not only make up the shortcomings of the traditional design method, but also be compared on the computer, it can save a lot of trial and testing costs in new product development and play an important role in optimizing the existing products. This paper studies the modern design methods of hydraulic machinery by the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) combined with...

Three-dimensional numerical simulations are carried out by commercial software STAR-CCM+ to investigate the hydraulic transient and flow behaviours of a prototype pump-turbine during the normal shutdown process. The global characteristics and pressure fluctuations are analysed as the pump-turbine runs through the turbine mode, into the turbine braking mode, and finally into the reversed pump mo...