This is a retrospective study. The aim of this study was to access sagittal compensatory mechanism of the cervical spine in thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (T-AIS) before and after posterior spinal fusion and to identify preoperative or immediate postoperative radiographic parameters that can predict the ultimate cervical sagittal alignment (CSA) after long-term follow-up.A retrospecti...

of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts EFFECTS OF SPECTRAL SLOPE ON PERCEIVED BREATHINESS IN VOWELS By Mario Alberto Landera August 2006 Chair: Rahul Shrivastav Major Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders Previous studies have indicated that breathiness is correlated with meas...

INTRODUCTION High tibial osteotomy remains a useful procedure for delaying total knee arthroplasty for young patients with unicompartimental medial osteoarthritis of the knee. The tibial posterior slope is essential for both ligament function and knee kinematics. Even though many articles were published in the literature, the long term influence of open wedge high tibial osteotomy on the poster...

The slope-number of a graph G is the minimum number of distinct edge slopes in a straight-line drawing of G in the plane. We prove that for ∆ ≥ 5 and all large n, there is a ∆-regular n-vertex graph with slope-number at least n 8+ε ∆+4 . This is the best known lower bound on the slope-number of a graph with bounded degree. We prove upper and lower bounds on the slope-number of complete bipartit...

The slope-number of a graph G is the minimum number of distinct edge slopes in a straight-line drawing of G in the plane. We prove that for ∆ ≥ 5 and all large n, there is a ∆-regular n-vertex graph with slope-number at least n1− 8+ε ∆+4 . This is the best known lower bound on the slope-number of a graph with bounded degree. We prove upper and lower bounds on the slope-number of complete bipart...

We study the behavior of the degree of the colored Jones polynomial and the boundary slopes of knots under the operation of cabling. We show that, under certain hypothesis on this degree, if a knot K satisfies the Slope Conjecture then a (p, q)-cable of K satisfies the conjecture, provided that p/q is not a Jones slope of K. As an application we prove the Slope Conjecture for iterated cables of...

with respect to étale cohomology with compact supports. This relation fails in general for l = p, but holds in an important special case. Suppose f is a Galois cover and deg f is a power of p. Then the relation χc(X,Qp) = (deg f)χ(Y,Ql) holds; for complete curves, this is due to Shafarevich [2], for arbitrary curves it is equivalent to the Deuring-Shafarevich formula, and in general it is due t...