BACKGROUND Among the various signs and symptoms of orbital fractures, certain clinical findings warrant immediate surgical exploration, including gaze restriction, computed tomographic (CT) evidence of entrapment, and prolonged oculocardiac reflex. Despite proper surgical reconstruction, prolonged complications such as diplopia and gaze restriction can occur. This article evaluated the prognost...

BACKGROUND Not much is known regarding avulsion fractures of the calcaneal tuberosity. We propose a modified classification scheme that presents the four types of calcaneal avulsion fracture as described by surgical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings, and evaluation of their specific features. METHODS Out of 764 cases of calcaneal fractures, we examined 20 cases (2.6%) that involve...

Multichannel gliding arcs actuators were designed to enhance the non-premixed combustion of kerosene (RP-3) and air mixture in a swirl combustor near lean blow-out limit. The instantaneous voltage current multichannel 1kHz high-speed CH* chemiluminescence imaging process simultaneously measured show characteristics assisted by plasma. When reaching limit flow rate 225 SLPM, at inlet, emission i...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE People with facial movement disorders are instructed to perform various facial movements as part of their physical therapy rehabilitation. A difference in the movement of the orbicularis oris muscle has been demonstrated among people without facial nerve impairments when instructed to "pucker your lips" and to "blow, as if blowing out a candle." The objective of this stud...

We prove a Liouville type theorem for sign-changing radial solutions of a subcritical semilinear heat equation ut = ∆u + |u|p−1u. We use this theorem to derive a priori bounds, decay estimates, and initial and final blow-up rates for radial solutions of rather general semilinear parabolic equations whose nonlinearities have a subcritical polynomial growth. Further consequences on the existence ...

A numerical simulation is conducted to study the laminar flow past a square cylinder confined in a channel (the ratio of side length of the square to channel width is fixed at 1/4) subjected to a locally uniform blowing/suction speed placed at the top and bottom channel walls. Governing equations with boundary conditions are resolved using a finite volume method in pressure-velocity formulation...

Is there too much criminal law? Are there too many overlapping criminal statutes, covering too much conduct, resulting in sentences that are too long? Douglas Husak says yes, and in this splendid book offers an original and persuasive explanation for why that is so. His argument for a “minimalist” conception of criminal law takes an elegant form. Chapters 2 and 3, which contain Husak’s theory a...

We consider an explosion at the center of a halo which forms at the intersection of filaments inside a cosmological pancake, a convenient test-bed model for galaxy formation. ASPH/PM simulations reveal that such explosions are anisotropic. The energy and metals are channeled into the low density regions, away from the pancake. The pancake remains essentially undisturbed, even if the explosion i...