To determine if the height of a basketball shoe alters the maximal inversion and eversion moment that can be actively resisted by the ankle in the frontal plane, we tested 20 healthy, young adult men with no recent ankle injuries. Subjects underwent unipedal functional ankle strength testing under weightbearing conditions at 0 degrees, 16 degrees, and 32 degrees of ankle plantar flexion using a...

‎‎For a finite group $G$ and a subgroup $H$ of $G$‎, ‎the relative commutativity degree of $H$ in $G$‎, ‎denoted by $d(H,G)$‎, ‎is the probability that an element of $H$ commutes with an element of $G$‎. ‎Let $mathcal{D}(G)={d(H,G):Hleq G}$ be the set of all relative commutativity degrees of subgroups of $G$‎. ‎It is shown that a finite group $G$ admits three relative commutativity degrees if a...

BACKGROUND High tibial osteotomy (HTO) is a well-established treatment for unicompartmental gonarthrosis of the knee, but its durability and complications remain controversial. We previously introduced a novel dome-shaped HTO, and the long-term follow-up results using this technique are analyzed in this study. METHODS We treated 25 varus knees in 22 patients with medial gonarthrosis, using a ...

A method for the study of the control of the attainment of thermal acclimation has been applied to the crabs, Cancer pagurus and Carcinus maenas. Crabs were heterothermally acclimated by using an anterior-posterior partition between two compartments, one at 8 degrees C and the other at 22 degrees C. One compartment held a three-quarter section of the crab including the central nervous system (C...

One hundred representative strains of Bacillus cereus were selected from a total collection of 372 B. cereus strains using two typing methods (RAPD and FT-IR) to investigate if emetic toxin-producing hazardous B. cereus strains possess characteristic growth and heat resistance profiles. The strains were classified into three groups: emetic toxin (cereulide)-producing strains (n=17), strains con...

OBJECTIVE To establish a normal range of nasal-bone length at 16-24 weeks' gestation by the use of three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound and to investigate the effect of deviations from the exact mid-sagittal plane on the measurement of nasal-bone length. METHODS We acquired 3D volumes of the fetal profile from 135 normal fetuses at 16-24 weeks' gestation. The multiplanar mode was used to obtain ...

Arctic ground squirrels (Spermophilus parryii) overwinter in hibernaculum conditions that are substantially below freezing. During torpor, captive arctic ground squirrels displayed ambient temperature (T(a))-dependent patterns of core body temperature (T(b)), metabolic rate (TMR), and metabolic fuel use, as determined by respiratory quotient (RQ). At T(a) 0 to -16 degrees C, T(b) remained relat...