We study the well-posedness of initial value problems for scalar functional algebraic and differential functional equations of mixed type. We provide a practical way to determine whether such problems admit unique solutions that grow at a specified rate. In particular, we exploit the fact that the answer to such questions is encoded in an integer n. We show how this number can be tracked as a p...

In CG community, many kinds of physical-based (impulse-based) approaches such as Mirtich’s and Baraff’s ones have been proposed for showing dynamic animation. However, because they generate and calibrate only an impulsive force, i.e., an area of force distribution, the impulsive forces are not always precisely calibrated. Moreover, since they do not deal with any exact impulse (force distributi...

1Department of Internal Medicine and 2Department of Ophthalmology, Cochin Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Descartes, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France. Benjamin Terrier, MD; Achille Aouba, MD; Boris Bienvenu, MD, PhD; Coralie Bloch-Queyrat, MD, PhD; Emmanuelle Delair, MD; Jasmina Mallet, MD; Alfred Mahr, MD, PhD; Loïc Guillevin, MD. B. Terri...

We describe a case of a delayed presentation of a traumatic soft tissue mallet injury to the distal phalanx of the hallux in a teenager. Reports of this rare injury are sparse and there is no consensus in their treatment. This injury was treated with open repair of the tendon using a Mitek suture anchor, and stabilization with a 1.2-mm K-wire and extension splinting for 8 weeks. Following this ...

Music conveys emotions by means of pitch, rhythm, loudness, and many other musical qualities. It was recently confirmed that timbre also has direct association with emotion, for example, that a horn is perceived as sad and a trumpet heroic in even isolated instrument tones. As previous work has mainly focused on sustaining instruments such as bowed strings and winds, this paper presents an expe...

Protein data bank entries obtain distinct, reproducible flexibility characteristics determined by normal mode analyses of their three dimensional coordinate files. We study the effectiveness and sensitivity of this technique by analyzing the results on one class of glycosidases: family 10 xylanases. A conserved tryptophan that appears to affect access to the active site can be in one of two con...