OBJECTIVE In pedicle screw fixation, the heads of monoaxial screws need to be directed in the same straight line to accommodate the rod placement by backing out during operation, which decreases the insertional torque and internal fixation strength. While polyaxial screws facilitate the assembly of the connecting rod, but its ball-in-cup locking mechanism reduces the static compressive bending ...

Pruning is crucial to balance productivity and fruit quality in blueberry orchards. Slight, conventional and severe pruning treatments were applied on 4and 5-year old bluberry plants cultivar ‘Brigitta’ to evaluate their effect on yield, leaf area, gas exchange and fruit load as driver of fruit quality traits. Yield and berries per plant decreased with increasing pruning severity, whereas canop...

OBJECTIVE Polyaxial pedicle screws are a safe, useful adjunct to transpedicular fixation. However, the large screw head size can cause soft tissue irritation, high rod positioning, and facet joint injury. However, the mechanical resistance provided by small and low profile pedicle screws is very limited. We therefore developed a novel, low profile pedicle screw using grooving and blasting treat...

Knowledge of the yield point and ductility of a structure is important in seismic design. The yield point of an assembly is defined as a point where it begins to plastically deform, while ductility describes its ability to yield without substantial reduction in strength. These parameters can be determined from the analysis of the load-deformation curves resulting from destructive tests. To date...

Motivated by developments in renewable energy and smart grids, we formulate a stylized mathematical model of a transport network with stochastic load fluctuations. Using an affine control rule, we explore the trade-off between the number of controllable resources in a lossy transport network and the performance gain they yield in terms of expected transportation losses. Our results are explicit...

The purpose of this study is to investigate bending moment and the axial load capacity of a pressurized pipe suffering from a through-wall circumferential crack repaired by a composite sleeve. The three-dimensional finite element method (FEM) was adopted to compute the results, and the failure assessment diagram (FAD) was employed to investigate the failure behavior of the repaired pipe. The fi...

INTRODUCTION: Finite element (FE) models for predicting proximal femoral fracture load are useful for research related to the prevention of hip fracture. CT scan-based non-linear FE models have been shown to predict proximal femoral fracture load precisely in vitro. However, if these models are to be used in vivo, we need to know the effect of using CT scan data obtained in situ instead of in v...

The bending performance of sandwich construction with thin cellular metal cores has been measured and simulated. A mechanism map has been generated to characterize the predominant failure phenomena based upon collapse load criteria for face yielding, core shear and indentation. A previously developed constitutive law for the core material has been incorporated into numerical simulations. Compar...

We study the problem of complexity estimation in the context of parallelizing an advanced Branch and Bound-type algorithm over graphical models. The algorithm’s pruning power makes load balancing, one crucial element of every distributed system, very challenging. We propose using a statistical regression model to identify and tackle disproportionally complex parallel subproblems, the cause of l...

To identify and select snow mold-resistant genotypes, 50 varieties of winter soft wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) various origins were tested under conditions severe biotic stress. The study was conducted on natural infectious backgrounds (factor A) in 2019-2020 2020-2021 B) the Republic Tatarstan. predecessor is pure steam. Sowing dates are optimal for zone. Local populations Microdochium nivale ...