OBJECTIVE Adult acquired flatfoot deformity is generally associated with a collapsing medial longitudinal arch and a progressive loss of strength of the posterior tibial tendon (PTT). This condition is commonly associated with PTT dysfunction or rupture, which can have an arthritic or a traumatic etiology. Several causes have been proposed to explain the clinical evidence of tendon degeneration...

Pulse transit time (PTT) is being widely pursued for cuff-less blood pressure (BP) monitoring. Most efforts have employed the time delay between ECG and finger photoplethysmography (PPG) waveforms as a convenient surrogate of PTT. However, these conventional pulse arrival time (PAT) measurements include the pre-ejection period (PEP) and the time delay through small, muscular arteries and may th...

Phototherapies such as photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photothermal therapy (PTT), due to their specific spatiotemporal selectivity and minimal invasiveness, have been widely investigated as alternative treatments of malignant diseases. Graphene and its derivatives not only have been used as carriers to deliver photosensitizers for PDT, but also as photothermal conversion agents (PTCAs) for PTT....

This paper develops robust test procedures for testing the intercept of a simple regression model when it is apriori suspected that the slope has a specified value. Defining unrestricted test (UT), restricted test (RT) and pre-test test (PTT) corresponding to the unrestricted (UE), restricted (RE), and preliminary test estimators (PTE) in the estimation case, the M-estimation methodology is use...

We examine the flow of viscoelastic fluids with various shear and elongational properties in axisymmetric and planar 4:1 contractions, under creeping flow conditions. Particular attention is paid to the influence of elongational viscosity upon vortex enhancement/inhibition. Simulations are performed with a novel hybrid finite volume/element algorithm. The momentum and continuity equations are s...

The numerical simulation of two-dimensional incompressible complex flows of viscoelastic fluids is presented. The context is one, relevant to the food industry, of mixing within a cylindrical vessel, where stirrers are located on the lid of the vessel. Here, the motion is considered as driven by the rotation of the outer vessel wall, with various stirrer locations. With a single stirrer, both a...

Two experiments invoh-ing voluntary control of pulse transmission time (PTT) to the ear were performed. In Experiment I (within-subject, 3 sessions), U male subjects attempting to control PTf with feedback showed significant bidirectional PTf changes in the target directions accompanied by parallel changes in pre-ejection period (PEP). There was no evidence ofconcomitant changes in respiration ...

Petersen-Gaussian (PG) networks are a broad family of interconnection networks for multi processor systems proposed recently. In this paper, a special case of PG networks, called PetersenTwisted-Torus (PTT) network, is considered. We analyze the diameter of PTT network, and find that PTT has smaller diameter and lower costing requirement than the well-known honeycomb mesh, diagonal mesh, torus,...

Complex rotational flows of non-Newtonian fluids are simulated through finite element methods. The predictions have direct relevance to dough kneading, associated with the food industry. The context is taken as two-dimensional and one of stirring material within a cylindrical vessel. Three stirrer shapes are considered, placed in eccentric location with respect to the cylinder centre. The motio...

To meet the ultimate goal of cancer therapy, which is treating not only the primary tumor but also preventing metastatic cancer, the concept of combining immunotherapy with photothermal therapy (PTT) is gaining great interest. Here, we studied the new material, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) coated copper sulfide nanoparticles (LPS-CuS), for the immuno-photothermal therapy. We evaluated the effect of...