Achilles tendon length has been measured using a straight-line model. However, this model is associated with a greater measurement error compared with a curved-line model. Therefore, we examined the influence of neglecting the curved path of the Achilles tendon on its length change at various ranges of motion. Ten male subjects participated in this study. First, the location of the Achilles ten...

The aim of this work was to elucidate several characteristic phenomena associated with rapid curved-line detection in multi-element arrays and to provide a unified account of the underlying curvature-sensitive mechanisms. To this end, a parametric experiment was performed in which the detectability of a curved-line target in a briefly presented planar array of curved-line distractors was measur...

We present a new mimetic finite difference method for diffusion problems that converges on grids with curved faces. Crucially, it gives symmetric discrete problem uses only one unknown per face. The principle at the core of our construction is to abandon standard definition local consistency methods. Instead, we exploit novel and global concept P0-consistency. Numerical examples confirm optimal...

Most people prefer smoothly curved shapes over more angular shapes. We investigated the origin of this effect using abstract shapes and implicit measures of semantic association and preference. In Experiment 1 we used a multidimensional Implicit Association Test (IAT) to verify the strength of the association of curved and angular polygons with danger (safe vs. danger words), valence (positive ...

1. INTRODUCTION Recently, the studies on the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a cylindrically curved conducting open surface are becoming an important subject for a variety of applications [1]-[4]. When the geometrical ray or the creeping wave is incident on the edge of the cylindrically curved conducting open surface, the geometrical rays and the whispering gallery modes, which cling to ...

Metaparasitylenchus hypothenemi n. sp. (Nematoda: Allantonematidae) is described from the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae), in Chiapas, Mexico. This species differs from other members of the genus by its small size, annulated cuticle, lateral fields with 3 ridges, free-living stages with an excretory pore located between the pharyngeal gland orifices...

We present a description of amorphous structures using regular arrangement in curved spaces to describe the local order. Defects and disorder ariserrom the mapping of the curved spaces onto the euclidian space. Density variations are qualitatively explained by this description.

A synthetic report of the advances in the study of classical and quantum string dynamics in curved backgrounds is provided, namely : the new feature of Multistring solutions ; the mass spectrum of Strings in Curved backgrounds ;