Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) is a manifestation of atherosclerosis of the leg arteries that affects 10 million people in USA (Antignani, 2003). For these people, walking is a difficult task because the increased metabolic demands of the leg muscles are constrained due to the decreased blood flow. The result is claudication, defined as pain of the leg muscles during ambulation and is presen...

Distraction osteogenesis is a process that depends on biomechanics, where the application of progressive traction forces leads to bone lengthening by gradual new bone formation. (Illizarov, 1989a, 1989b) Consequently, stretching of surrounding soft tissues occurs at different tissue depths, allowing correction of severe skeletal dysplasias in short periods of time. However, biomechanical data f...

In [28] Rasin and Hydon suggested a way to construct an infinite number of conservation laws for the discrete KdV equation (dKdV), by repeated application of a certain symmetry to a known conservation law. It was not decided, however, whether the resulting conservation laws were distinct and nontrivial. In this paper we obtain the following results: (1) We give an alternative method to construc...

In this paper, a generalized variable coefficient Gardner equation is investigated. Exp-function method combined with F-expansion method are used to determine six families of exact solutions of exp-function type for this equation. Under different parametric conditions, every family of solution can be reduced to some solitary wave solutions and periodic wave solutions. The results presented in t...

The Gardner equation is an extension of the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation. It exhibits basically the same properties as the classical KdV, but extends its range of validity to a wider interval of the parameters of the internal wave motion for a given environment. In this paper, we derive exact solitary wave solutions for the generalized Gardner equation that includes nonlinear terms of any o...

Local Reasoning for Concurrent Libraries: Mind the Gap Philippa Gardner, Azalea Raad, Mark Wheelhouse, Adam Wright1 Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

It is cited at the anatomical literature that the Abductor digiti minimi muscle can be composed by one or more muscular beams (Williams et al., 1995; Murata et al., 2004), being more found presenting only one beam, as described by Testut (1911) and schematized in pictures by other authors (Grant, 1948; Testut & Latarjet, 1959; Gray, 1977; Lockhart et al., 1983; Woodburne, 1984). However, some a...