OBJECTIVES To evaluate the influence of shock wave therapy (SWT) on radiographic evidence of bone healing after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO). METHODS Healthy dogs between two to nine years of age that underwent TPLO were randomly assigned to receive either electro-hydraulic SWT (1,000 shocks) or sham treatment (SHAM). Treatment or SHAM was administered to the osteotomy site immedi...

Curve fitting with piecewise splines for rapidly varying data has been a difficult problem. Often, the curve exhibits unwanted “wiggles” around those data points whose locations change rapidly in comparison to their neighboring data points. Many methods were proposed to solve this problem using non-homogeneous tension spline or fairing process. In this paper, a new approach using the concept of...

The spatial distribution of precipitation is one the most important climatic variables used in geographic and environmental studies. However, when there a lack full coverage meteorological stations, estimations are necessary to interpolate for larger areas. purpose this research was find best interpolation method mapping partly densely populated Khorasan Razavi province northeastern Iran. To ac...

Patellar ligament inflammation has been reported to follow tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) procedures. While self-limiting, severe cases can result in marked lameness and prolonged recovery. Based on favorable results for shock wave therapy (SWT) of tendon and ligament injuries in other species, a clinical trial was conducted in dogs to determine if SWT would have a beneficial effect o...

The interpolation of a planar sequence of points p0, . . . , pN by shape-preserving G 1 or G2 PH quintic splines with specified end conditions is considered. The shape-preservation property is secured by adjusting ‘tension’ parameters that arise upon relaxing parametric continuity to geometric continuity. In the G2 case, the PH spline construction is based on applying Newton–Raphson iterations ...

Introduction. Decentralization and openness are inherent properties of multiagent systems (MAS). The technologies they provide are thus the right abstraction for developing Web-oriented applications. Moreover, different works have been proposed to use Semantic Web technologies (SWT) for representing various dimensions of MAS (e.g., interaction protocols, norms, organizations). Given these facts...

The results obtained by analyzing signals with the Square Wave Method (SWM) introduced previously can be presented in the frequency domain clearly and precisely by using the Square Wave Transform (SWT) described here. As an example, the SWT is used to analyze a sequence of samples (that is, of measured values) taken from an electroencephalographic recording. A computational tool, available at w...

This work proposes a numerical scheme for class of time-fractional convection–reaction–diffusion problems with time lag. Time-fractional derivative is considered in the Caputo sense. The comprises discretization technique given by Crank and Nicolson temporal direction spline functions tension factor are used spatial direction. Through von Neumann stability analysis, shown conditionally stable. ...