BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to describe the use of prescribed and non prescribed medicines in a non-institutionalised population older than 15 years of an urban area during the year 2000, in terms of age and gender, social class, employment status and type of Primary Health Care. METHODS Cross-sectional study. Information came from the 2000 Barcelona Health Interview Survey. T...

We consider the classical Mindlin–Eringen linear micromorphic model with a new strictly weaker set of displacement boundary conditions. The consistent coupling condition aims at minimizing spurious influences from arbitrary prescription for additional microdistortion field $$\varvec{P}$$ . In effect, is now only required to match tangential derivative $$\varvec{u}$$ which known Dirichlet part b...

Dynamic response of the one-dimensional viscoelastic rod finite length, that has one end fixed and other subject to prescribed either displacement or stress, is analyzed by analytical means Laplace transform, yielding stress an arbitrary rod's point as a convolution boundary forcing solution kernel. Thermodynamically consistent Burgers models are adopted constitutive equations describing mechan...

introduction: it has been shown that joint click, an initial and common finding in internal derangement (id), respond to neither conservative treatment nor surgical intervention. this raises the question as to whether it must be treated in the absence of other pertinent signs and symptoms, so the aim of this study was to investigate and compare the mri findings of tmj in both normal subjects an...

abstract for seismic design, it is important to estimate the, maximum lateral displacement (inelastic displacement) of the structures due to earthquakes for several reasons. seismic design provisions estimate the maximum roof and storey drifts occurring in major earthquakes by amplifying the roof displacement and drifts of the structures obtained by elastic analysis subjected to seismic design ...

computer model of the patellofemoral joint was developed and the effects on the anterior displacement of the tibial tuberosity were investigated. the input geometrical and verification data for the model were obtained form an experimental study on a cadaver knee, mounted in an instron machine. the computer program found the configuration of the patellofemoral joint which satified both the geome...