+*Koyama, T; *Sugano, N; *Miki, H; **Murakami, A; *Nishii, T; *Sato, Y; *Yoshikawa, H; *Tamura, S; *Ochi, T +*Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. [email protected] Introduction It has been reported that almost 100% of hips with extensive type of osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) show progression of collapse if they do not receive any surgical treatm...

This article presents results on expansive graphs that Víctor Neumann-Lara obtained in the late 1970’s and reported mostly without proofs in [8] and [9]. The untimely death of Víctor left us to complete this project, which had started in [7]. We had at hand [8, 9] and the manuscript [10] that, using his old notebooks, Víctor wrote with one of us in 1995. The original material has been thoroughl...

We prove that for C generic diffeomorphisms, every expansive homoclinic class is hyperbolic.

We call a dynamical system on a measurable metric space measureexpansive if the probability of two orbits remain close each other for all time is negligible (i.e. zero). We extend results of expansive systems on compact metric spaces to the measure-expansive context. For instance, the measureexpansive homeomorphisms are characterized as those homeomorphisms f for which the diagonal is almost in...

Motion planning for systems with constraints on controls or the need for relatively straight paths for real-time actions presents challenges for modern planners. This paper presents an approach which addresses these types of systems by building on existing motion planning approaches. Guided Expansive Spaces Trees are introduced to search for a low cost and relatively straight path in a space wi...

We introduce the notions of weakly and strongly positively expansive (wPE and sPE, respectively) discrete dynamical systems. Both are topological generalizations of the well-known metric notion of positive expansiveness (PE). We prove that the three notions are identical on compact metrizable spaces, but not on noncompact spaces. We investigate properties of PE, wPE, and sPE dynamical systems a...

Expansive soils are often encountered in many parts of the world, especially in arid and semi-arid fields. Such kind of soils, generally including active clay minerals in low water content, enlarge in volume by absorbing the water through the surface and cause a great harm to the light structures such as channel coating, roads and airports. The expansive soils were encountered on the path of Ap...

The firing rates of neurons in the central visual pathway vary with stimulus strength, but not necessarily in a linear manner. In the contrast domain, the neural response function for cells in the primary visual cortex is characterized by expansive and compressive nonlinearities at low and high contrasts, respectively. A compressive nonlinearity at high contrast is also found for early visual p...