BACKGROUND Numerous designs are used to the treatment of Early Onset Scoliosis. For example, a Thoraco-Lumbo-Sacral Orthosis (TLSO) is constructed using Polyethylene (PE). In addition, a series of castings has been implemented using cast material (3M, BSN Medical). The cast material has some significant advantages over the PE design including: growth preserving, improved compliance, decreased i...

The paper presents the background to expressions adopted in new Eurocode 8—3 for jacketed reinforced concrete columns. These are based on commonly concept of monolithicity factors (ratios resistance section that an identical monolithic one). derived here two ways: (i) by fitting experimental results columns and (ii) extended parametric study substandard (R/C) members were retrofitted adding R/C...

An orthogonal cocyclic framework of the block-wise inverse Jacket transform (BIJT) is proposed over the finite field. Instead of the conventional block-wise inverse Jacket matrix (BIJM), we investigate the cocyclic block-wise inverse Jacket matrix (CBIJM), where the high-order CBIJM can be factorized into the low-order sparse CBIJMs with a successive block architecture. It has a recursive fashi...

Offshore installations are designed to withstand against potential collisions from offshore supply vessels (OSV). Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) provides an overall picture of expected collision frequencies and consequences for the design life a platform subsequently estimates damage repair cost. However, main challenge QRA study is how well various uncertainties implemented into model. Thi...

In this paper, we propose a new construction method for a novel class of parametric reciprocal-orthogonal jacket transform (PROJT) having 4N parameters for a sequence length N = 2r+1 that is a power of two, based on the reciprocal-orthogonal parametric (ROP) transform and block diagonal matrices. It is shown that the inverse transform of the proposed PROJT is conveniently obtained by the recipr...

OBJECTIVE Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is associated with a progressive deterioration in cardiac function. We hypothesised that some of the deleterious effects of DCM could be reduced by mechanically limiting the degree of cardiac dilatation. METHODS A Transonic 20A cardiac output (CO) flow-probe was implanted in the pulmonary artery of 12 adult (52 +/- 4 kg) sheep. Early heart failure was cr...