The problem of the rectification curves and calculation (for which we shall adopt more geometric term “flattening”) surface a rotating solid generated by curve, once rotation axis has been fixed, were treated John Wallis in two short inter-related tracts on cycloids cissoids 1659. In this work, focus parabola, an ancient reproposed 17th century, solution obtained using particular series that re...

Data from behavioural studies are frequently non-normally distributed and cannot be analysed with traditional parametric statistics. Instead, behaviourists must rely on rank-transformation tests, which lose potentially valuable information present in the data. Recently, however, biologists in other disciplines have resolved similar statistical difficulties by using resampling methods. Results f...

The aim of this study was: 1) verify if the level of strength in young Portuguese gymnasts change according to competition levels and ranking positions; 2) compare the level of strength in finalists’ gymnasts of different competition levels; 3) identify the strength tests that discriminate the gymnasts from the different competition levels. The sample consisted of 68 Portuguese young gymnasts (...

Methods Thirty-three out of forty-six enrolled first-year podiatry students completed surveys at a large, culturally diverse university in Sydney, Australia. Demographic data and standardised measures of English language acculturation, acculturative stress, universe diverse orientation and professional and institutional identities were collected. Surveys were also administered to first-year phy...

Methods: One hundred and thirty pre-treatment teleradiographs of Caucasian patients aged 10-16 years (mean age of 12.6 years) were selected for study and divided into 3 groups. The cephalometric measurements used in the present study were the following: H.SN, Cx, NLA, MLA, UL-SUL-S, LL-S, IMPA, and 1-SN. Analysis of variance and Tukey’s test were applied for measurements H.SN, Cx, IMPA, 1-SN, M...

Materials and methods Case-control study. Cases were defined by the presence of T2D and CKD stages 3-5, evaluated by estimated GFR<60 mL/min, and controls were formed by patients with T2D and GFR>60mL/min (diabetic control group); and by individuals without T2D (non-diabetic control group). PGRN was determined with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in blood and urine samples after overnight fas...

We present examples of flag homology spheres whose γvectors satisfy the Kruskal-Katona inequalities. This includes several families of well-studied simplicial complexes, including Coxeter complexes and the simplicial complexes dual to the associahedron and to the cyclohedron. In another direction, we show that if a flag (d− 1)-sphere has at most 2d + 2 vertices its γ-vector satisfies the Kruska...

MATERIALS AND METHODS: A list of fellowship programs was obtained from the website of American Society of Craniofacial Surgery (ASCFS). Faculty demographics and institution characteristics were obtained from official program websites. H-indices for each faculty member were calculated using the Scopus database (Elsevier, USA). Data was assessed using bivariate analysis (Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-W...