Horses with navicular disease, laminitis, and bone spavin redistribute weight to unload the painful aspect of the foot/limb. Wedges aided this redistribution but shoe extensions did not. It is not appropriate to undertake studies into the mechanics of corrective farriery on sound horses of good conformation and then extrapolate these results to predict the effect of corrective shoeing on a lame...

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY VOL. 155, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2011 1 This is partially supported by a Phillips Fund Grant from the American Philosophical Society (2007), and a University of Montana Small Grant (2007). I greatly appreciate James Boy for his kindness and for sharing his experience with the Blackfoot language. I am also grateful for Susie White Calf, who is no longe...

In the absence of a pure noise-free image it is hard to define what noise is, in any original noisy image, and as a consequence also where it is, and in what amount. In fact, the definition of noise depends largely on our own aim in the whole image analysis process, and (perhaps more important) in our self-perception of noise. For instance, when we perceive noise as disconnected and small it is...

In the case of patients having lower back pain, it is known that by using shoe insole therapy, stability of walking is increased and lower back pain is lessened. In this study, Synchronized System of Accelerometers was used. The time series data of accelerator in the two directions (X, Y) on each pelvis and knees were measured while the subjects were walking. Analyses on the response of step si...

Investigators have pondered whether or not ESP size has an impact on mercury capture by sorbent injection or deposition on fly ash. If important, ESP size would then have an impact on how effectively a power plant captures mercury and can comply with mercury control requirements. There are two possible elements to the impact of ESP size. First, does a larger ESP enable more mercury capture to o...

A new ”twice loose shoe” method in the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of the universe wave function on the cosmic scale factor a and a scalar field φ is suggested in this letter. We analysis the both affects come from the tunneling effect of a and the potential well effect of φ, and obtain the initial values a0 and φ0 about a primary closed universe which is born with the largest probability in the qu...

This column discusses program size and it provides a general background for all the columns to follow. Before discussing size estimating, it is important to cover size measurement. The discussion of size estimating starts next month. To repeat what I said last month, if you are in a hurry to get to the punch line, this set of columns describes an estimating method called PROBE which is describe...

Beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s governments began to privatize state operators and open markets to competition. The introduction of liberalization to telecommunication markets has well known positive effects in the sector. In reconciling the dramatic changes wrought by the liberalization process with social goals of universality of service, many countries considered revising their u...

At the nano-scale, yield and fracture strengths, for example, have been found to deviate from classical mechanics laws and, therefore, can no longer be inferred from the bulk (large-scale) response or from the literature. Unfortunately, the few existing conventional experimental techniques for assessing mechanical properties at this scale are insufficient, not easily accessible, and generally l...

Background: There has been an outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) worldwide. With the use of detailed epidemiological data from other countries, this article describes the possible reason for the SARS epidemic not appearing in Japan, and simulates the impact of different control strategies that can break the transmission cycle of SARS associated coronavirus. Method: Mathema...