Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) is an accepted and established surgical technique for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries and is now being practiced across the globe in increasing numbers. Although most patients get good to excellent results in the short-term after ACLR, its consequences in the long-term in prevention or acceleration of knee osteoarthritis (OA) are not ye...

This study explores the hypothesis that high-intensity exercise induces degenerative changes in the injury-prone equine superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT), but not in the rarely injured common digital extensor tendon (CDET). The horse represents a large-animal model that is applicable to human tendon and ligament physiology and pathology. Twelve age-matched female horses undertook gallopi...

High field-strength magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an effective method for diagnosing injury to the oblique and straight distal sesamoidean ligaments in horses. In this study, a treatment program, consisting primarily of a 6-mo rest and rehabilitation program, allowed 76% of horses to successfully resume performance. Authors’ addresses: Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College o...

Deborah Jin, a pioneer in modern atomic and molecular physics, passed away on September 15, 2016, at age 47, after a courageous fight with cancer. She was a world renowned scientist at JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) in Boulder, Colorado, a joint institute of the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado. Her r...

I review the linearized hydrodynamical treatment of a fast parton traversing a perturbative quark-gluon plasma. Using numerical solutions for the medium’s response to the fast parton, I obtain the medium’s distribution function which is then used in a Cooper-Frye freeze-out prescription to obtain an azimuthal particle spectrum. Two different freeze-out scenarios are considered which yield signi...

I present results from an extended Migdal–Eliashberg theory of electron-phonon interactions and superconductivity. The history of the electron-phonon problem is introduced, and then study of the intermediate parameter regime is justified from the energy scales in the cuprate superconductors. The Holstein model is detailed, and limiting cases are examined to demonstrate the need for an extended ...

I present results from an extended Migdal–Eliashberg theory of electron-phonon interactions and superconductivity. The history of the electron-phonon problem is introduced, and then study of the intermediate parameter regime is justified from the energy scales in the cuprate superconductors. The Holstein model is detailed, and limiting cases are examined to demonstrate the need for an extended ...

In this article, we consider the use of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) (Kabat-Zinn, 1991) as a community-based intervention to reduce health disparities for low-income, predominantly African American women with a history of intimate partner violence (IPV) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This article presents our rationale for using MBSR as an intervention with this populati...

The Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) mean-field theory of the pairing interaction breaks down for nuclei and ultra-small metallic grains (nanoparticles). Finite-temperature pairing correlations in such finite-size systems can be calculated beyond the BCS theory in an auxiliary-field Monte Carlo approach. We identify thermal signatures of pairing correlations in both nuclei and nanoparticles that...

We study the eigenvalue problem −u′′(z) − [(iz) + P (iz)]u(z) = λu(z) with the boundary conditions that u(z) decays to zero as z tends to infinity along the rays arg z = − 2 ± 2π m+2 , where P (z) = a1z m−1 + a2z m−2 + · · ·+ am−1z is a real polynomial and m ≥ 2. We prove that if for some 1 ≤ j ≤ m 2 , we have (j − k)ak ≥ 0 for all 1 ≤ k ≤ m− 1, then the eigenvalues are all positive real. We th...