Sports medicine physicians have a keen clinical and research interest in the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The biomechanical, biologic, and clinical data researchers generate, help drive injury management and prevention practices globally. The current concepts in ACL injury and surgery are being shaped by technological advances, expansion in basic science research, resurging interest in ACL...

We propose a new kernel-based data transformation technique. It is founded on the principle of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) preservation, hence named kernel MaxEnt. The key measure is Renyi’s entropy estimated via Parzen windowing. We show that kernel MaxEnt is based on eigenvectors, and is in that sense similar to kernel PCA, but may produce strikingly different transformed data sets. An enhanced ...

§0. Introduction §1. Preliminaries, notation, and definitions §2. Basic approaches and preliminary facts §3. Extension across M 1 §4. Extension across C t §5. Completion of the proof of the Main Theorem— Assuming Theorem C §6. Statement of Theorem D and related notation §7. Extension of G(f, λ)—Proof of Theorem D(a) §8. Branches of F and Segre varieties §9. Branch locus of F and Segre varieties...

Today, our planet is in a state of crisis and many of its natural resources have been destroyed by human activities. One of the principle aims of conservation biology is to promote concrete management programs to limit any further increase in the number of extinct and threatened species and ecosystems. Different approaches may be followed to maintain the world’s biodiversity: the in situ approa...

While there has been a growing body of work on word embeddings, and recent directions better reflect sense-level representations, evaluation remains a challenge. We propose a method of query inventory generation for embedding evaluation that recasts the principle of subsumption preservation, a desirable property of semantic graph-based similarity measures, as a comparative similarity measure as...

In Part I, we described an efficient and robust algorithm for computing a common refinement of two surface meshes. In this paper, we present a theoretical verification ofthe robustness of our algorithm by showing the topological preservation of the intersection principle, which we used to resolve topological inconsistencies caused by numerical errors. To enhance robustness in practice for compl...

Polymorphism is one of the most important features offered by object-oriented programming languages, since it allows to extend/modify the behavior of a class without altering its source code, in accordance to the Open/Closed Principle. However, there is a lack of methods and tools for the identification of places in the code of an existing system that could benefit from the employment of polymo...

the AJNR. After the South Korean stem cell scandal, a survey showed that 8 of 10 Korean investigators were not aware of the “Declaration of Helsinki.” This declaration reflects the policies of the World Medical Association with respect to research and states that both authors and publishers have ethical obligations that include preservation of the accuracy of the results in any investigation. B...

We are extending our biomechanics simulation toolkit, ArtiSynth [Fels 2006], with new methods relevant to surgical planning. Our research directions are focused on upper-airway and cranio-facial anatomy and predicting functional deficits associated with jaw surgery, such as mandible reconstruction [Curtis et al. 1997]. The principle features of ArtiSynth include simulation of constrained rigid-...

We concentrate on a family of discrete event systems obtained from a simple modular design principle that include in a controlled way primitives to deal with concurrency, decisions, synchronization, blocking , and bulk movements of jobs. Due to the functional complexity of such systems, reliable throughput approximation algorithms must be deeply supported on a structure based decomposition tech...