background: the aim of this study is to evaluate the long and short ten postoperative results after the notaras procedure as a surgical treatment of rectal prolapse in adults. methods: thirty-one patients suffering from rectal prolapse who were operated with notaras posterior mesh rectopexy in shohada-e-tajrish hospital between 1991- 2000 were followed up for results and complications and the r...

A seamless analysis of IT-related products, such as cellular phone, LCD monitor and note PC etc., which are thin and complex geometry is one of great concerns in product design. However, there is a considerable amount of gap between the industrial application and fundamental academic studies due to a time consuming detailed mesh generation. In order to settle the bottleneck, an auto mesh genera...

Although watermarking techniques have been successfully applied to natural images and videos, little progress is made in the area of graphics animation. In particular, the MPEG-4 dynamic 2D mesh that provides efficient coding for animated graphics data imposes several realistic constraints for watermarking. In this paper, we propose a robust watermarking technique for MPEG-4 2D mesh animation. ...

To simulate the airflow and acoustic wave propagation associated with voice production, a closed surface mesh representing the vocal tract is needed. Biomechanically, the vocal tract is composed of surfaces from several different anatomical structures. We present a method for assembling a dynamic vocal tract mesh by trimming and stitching surface meshes tracking biomechanical models of relevant...

Terrains have a key role in making outdoor virtual scenes believable and immersive as they form the support for every other natural element in the scene. Although important, terrains are often given limited interactivity in real-time applications. However, in nature, terrains are dynamic and interact with the rest of the environment changing shape on different levels, from tracks left by a pers...

The free mesh method (FMM) is a kind of the meshless methods intended for particle-like finite element analysis of problems that are difficult to handle using global mesh generation, or a node-based finite element method that employs a local mesh generation technique and a node-by-node algorithm. The aim of the present paper is to review some unique numerical solutions of fluid and solid mechan...

Mesh adapt(on is a powerful tool for efficient unstructured-grid computations but causes load imbalance among processors on a parallel machine. A dynamic load balancing method is presented that balances the workload across all processors with a global view. After each parallel tetrahedral mesh adapt(on, the method first determines if the new mesh is sufficiently unbalanced to warrant a repartit...

Dynamic mesh adaption on unstructured grids is a powerful tool for eeciently computing unsteady problems to resolve solution features of interest. Unfortunately, this causes load imbalance among processors on a parallel machine. This paper describes the parallel implementation of a tetrahedral mesh adaption scheme and a new global load balancing method. A heuristic remapping algorithm is presen...