BACKGROUND Many factors effect on management (surgical and nonsurgical) of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was evaluation of the effects of generalized ligamentous laxity (GLL) on surgical treatment of AIS. MATERIALS AND METHODS 72 patients with AIS were studied between 2002 and 2009. 24 cases (33.4%) were placed in group A (normal) while 48 patie...

The time evolution of the matter produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions seems to be well described by relativistic viscous hydrodynamics. In addition to the hydrodynamic degrees of freedom related to energy-momentum conservation, degrees of freedom associated with order parameters of broken continuous symmetries must be considered because they are all coupled to each other. Of particular ...

Unstructured hexahedral mesh generation is a critical part of the modeling process in the Spectral-Element Method (SEM). We present some examples of seismic wave propagation in complex geological models, automatically meshed on a parallel machine based upon CUBIT (Sandia Laboratory, cubit.sandia.gov), an advanced 3D unstructured hexahedral mesh generator that offers new opportunities for seismo...

background many factors effect on management (surgical and nonsurgical) of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (ais). objectives the purpose of this study was evaluation of the effects of generalized ligamentous laxity (gll) on surgical treatment of ais. materials and methods 72 patients with ais were studied between 2002 and 2009. 24 cases (33.4%) were placed in group a (normal) while 48 patients ...

The article gives explicit values of some constants which appear in the character formula for the irreducible supercuspidal representation of GLl(F ) for F a local field of the residual characteristic p = l.

The non-hydrostatic (NH) compressible Euler equations of dry atmosphere are solved in a simplified two dimensional (2-D) slice framework employing a spectral element method (SEM) for the horizontal discretization and a finite difference method (FDM) for the vertical discretization. The SEM uses high-order nodal basis functions asso-5 ciated with Lagrange polynomials based on Gauss–Lobatto–Legen...

The Karhunen-Loève expansion of a Gaussian process, a common tool on finite element methods for differential equations with stochastic coefficients, is based on the spectral decomposition of its covariance function. The eigenpairs of the covariance are expressed as a Fredholm integral equation of second kind, which can be readily approximated with piecewise-constant finite elements. In this wor...

Young drivers in Israel, as in other parts of the world, are at an elevated risk of being involved in car crashes more than any other age group. A Graduated Driver Licensing System (GDL) has been introduced in Israel, requiring new drivers to be accompanied by an experienced driver during the first 3 months after obtaining a driving license. In an effort to ensure the effectiveness of the accom...