introduction diabetic foot is a clinical disorder, which is commonly seen in patients with diabetes mellitus. it is also the major cause of below knee amputation in the world. there are many underlying causes such as neuropathic, ischemic, and infectious causes for diabetic foot. local or systemic complications may develop after snake bite. case presentation we reported a very rare case, involv...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of a genetic algorithm (GA) to perform the finite element analysis mesh smoothing process. It is the goal of this paper to take a simple quadrilateral mesh and smooth it using a GA into a useful model that will provide a correct solution. The GA smoothing technique is demonstrated on two simple quadrilateral mesh examples. Only one node is mov...

This paper proposes a computational method for fully automated quadrilateral meshing. Unlike previous methods, this new scheme can create a quadrilateral mesh whose directionality is precisely controlled. Given as input: (1) a 2D geometric domain, (2) a desired node spacing distribution as a scalar function deened over the domain, and (3) a desired mesh directionality as a vector eld deened ove...

This paper describes an approach to smooth the surface and improve the quality of quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes with feature preserved using geometric flow. For quadrilateral surface meshes, the surface diffusion flow is selected to remove noise by relocating vertices in the normal direction, and the aspect ratio is improved with feature preserved by adjusting vertex positions in the tangent ...

The novella Coraline follows a young girl as she rescues her parents from an alternate reality. In his short story, author Neil Gaiman covers scarcely one week of Coraline’s life. Still, the descriptions of Coraline’s experiences and thoughts can engage Carl Jung’s psychological theories of personality structure and individuation. In particular, I will analyze how Coraline’s character illustrat...

Provisioners capture items both for delivery and for self-feeding. In doing so, they may travel directly to and from a single location, visit several patches on each excursion from a delivery point, or alternate excursions to different destinations. Prey suitable for self-feeding versus delivery have differing attributes, which means that they are often best sought in different places. Visiting...

When Shelley invoked the snake symbolically in this fashion he was hardly doing anything new. The snake's association with death, rebirth and the cycle of nature is practically universal. For the ancient Egyptians the snake was the life of the earth, and there are texts from as early as 2300 B.C. referring to the Quroborus or tail eating serpent, the symbol of the cyclical nature of the cosmos....