Bilateral amputees who are fitted with standard full length prostheses find it difficult to walk fast or climb up and down stairs. Usually stubbies, or short prostheses with non-articulated rocker bottoms, are also provided, especially for geriatric amputees. An interchangeable system has been evolved which enables the same prosthesis to be used either as a full length prosthesis or as a stubby...

A general framework for cluster tilting is set up by showing that any quotient of a triangulated category modulo a tilting subcategory (that is, a maximal oneorthogonal subcategory) carries an induced abelian structure. These abelian quotients turn out to be module categories of Gorenstein algebras of dimension at most one.

The hemagglutination inhibition assay (HAI) is widely used to evaluate vaccine-induced antibody responses as well as to antigenically characterize influenza viruses. The results of an HAI assay are based on an endpoint titration where the titers are generally manually interpreted and recorded by a well-trained expert. For serological applications, the lack of standardization in endpoint interpr...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to assess the differences in the adaptive response of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) compared with normal subjects, as well as any association with increased susceptibility to the test. BACKGROUND Diastolic function contributes importantly in the adaptation of the normal heart to head-up tilting. This mechanism may be disturbed by an impaired relaxation in H...