Let C1 and C2 be algebraic plane curves in C such that the curves intersect in d1 · d2 points where d1, d2 are the degrees of the curves respectively. Oka and Sakamoto proved that π1(C \ C1 ∪ C2)) ∼= π1(C \ C1)× π1(C \ C2) [1]. In this paper we prove the converse of Oka and Sakamoto’s result for line arrangements. Let A1 and A2 be non-empty arrangements of lines in C such that π1(M(A1 ∪ A2)) ∼=...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to express my sincere appreciation to my thesis advisor, Professor Magnus Egerstedt, for his guidance, patience, and support. I am also specially grateful to Professor Edward W. Kamen for his support and encouragement early on in my PhD studies, as my first advisor. I also wish to thank Professors Erik I. Verriest and Yorai Wardi for serving on my reading committee, and ...

1,3 Sai Vikas Yalla, 1 Adam Fleischer, 2 Gurtej Grewal, 1 Carolyn Kelly, 1 Dana Berns, 1 Rachel Albright and 2 Bijan Najafi 1 Center of Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research (CLEAR), Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science 2 Sothern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), University of Arizona, College of Medicine 3 Lecturer and R...

SWAT4LS 2015 had two excellent keynotes. The first was from Bijan Parsia, of the University of Manchester, on "Representing all clinical knowledge" and the second was from Melissa Haendel, of Oregon Health and Science University, and was about "Envisioning a world where everyone helps solve disease". The conference programme, together with slides, is available on the SWAT4LS 2015 conference Web...

Bijan S. Kheirabadi, PhD , Anthony E. Pusateri, PhD , Jill L. Sondeen, PhD , Angel V. Delgado, BS , Harold E. Modrow, PhD 2 John R. Hess, MD , and John B. Holcomb, MD 1 The United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, 3400 Rawley E. Chambers Avenue Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234-6315 US Army Medical Material Development Activity, Fort Detrick, Maryland University of Maryland Medical Center...

M. H. Kowsari, Saman Alavi, Bijan Najafi, K. Gholizadeh, E. Dehghanpisheh, and F. Ranjbar 1 Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Center, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, 84156-83111, Iran 2 Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan, 45137-66731, Iran 3 Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada 4 ...

The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...

In this paper a simple model of a three story building with inclined first-story columns has presented. The stories are supposed to be rigid and are connected to axially rigid mass less columns by elasto-plastic rotational springs and linear rotational dampers. The considered model is subjected to horizontal component of fault normal pulse with different magnitudes and the governed nonlinear di...