BACKGROUND Skin function is dependent on its biomechanical characteristics, resistance, malleability, and elasticity. Therapeutic ultrasound may increase cutaneous malleability thus and optimize the rehabilitation process on specific diseases. The aim of this study is to evaluate possible alterations of biomechanical characteristics of the normal skin after therapeutic ultrasound application. ...

We consider a partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism of a compact smooth manifold preserving a smooth measure. Assuming that the central distribution is integrable to a foliation with compact smooth leaves we show that this foliation fails to have the absolute continuity property provided that the sum of Lyapunov exponents in the central direction is not zero on a set of positive measure. We also ...

Mental abilities and physical growth are important determinants of health across the lifespan. Here, stability these traits was assessed from 6 months to 65 years age investigate periods malleability. abilities, height, weight were at 11 time-points in participants Zurich Longitudinal Studies. Individuals with more than three missing data points per trait assessment (i.e., approx. 25% data) exc...

Storage area networks, remote backup storage systems, and similar information systems frequently modify stored data with updates from new versions. In these systems, it is desirable for the data to not only be compressed but to also be easily modified during updates. A malleable coding scheme considers both compression efficiency and ease of alteration, promoting some form of reuse or recycling...

Non-malleable codes are a generalization of classical errorcorrecting codes where the act of “corrupting” a codeword is replaced by a “tampering” adversary. Non-malleable codes guarantee that the message contained in the tampered codeword is either the original messagem, or a completely unrelated one. In the common split-state model, the codeword consists of multiple blocks (or states) and each...

in an earlier work we showed that for ordered fields f not isomorphic to the reals r, there are continuous 1-1 unctions on [0, 1]f which map some interior point to a boundary point of the image (and so are not open). here we show that over closed bounded intervals in the rationals q as well as in all non-archimedean ordered fields of countable cofinality, there are uniformly continuous 1-1 func...

We explore a novel interaction technique using forcefeedback devices for creative manipulation of 3D models that combines interactive mesh deformation with painting a deformation property map. Painting a deformation map permits the artist to easily assign different values of “malleability” to specific areas of the model in order to locally manipulate the deformation behavior during interactive ...

A focus on zoonotic urbanisation challenges existing conceptions of global urbanism. In this article I consider how a modified urban political ecology framework might help to illuminate emerging landscapes epidemiological risk. show multi-scalar perspective epidemiology, including the impact colonialism, capitalism, and changing relations with non-human others, unsettles analytical approaches. ...