Radial inflow turbines are the preferred architecture for energy extraction from the organic Rankine cycle and the supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle at smaller scales. For such turbines it is possible for fluid to be delivered to the first stage by either a volute or plenum delivery system. For high pressure supercritical CO2 turbines, there are no fully documented fluid delivery systems in liter...

Excision is not a suitable treatment for all comminuted fractures of the radial head. In elbows where instability can be predicted, a replacement arthroplasty of the radial head is more effective. The aim of this paper was to present the medium-term results of the Judet floating radial head prosthesis. This operation was performed on 14 patients between 1992 and 2003, of whom 12 were reviewed a...

We propose an animation system for personalized human head. Landmarks compliant to MPEG-4 facial definition parameters (FDP) are initially labeled on both template model and any target human head model as priori knowledge. The deformation from the template model to the target head is through a multilevel training process. Both general radial basis function (RBF) and compactly supported radial b...