We review and compare our experience with tricuspid ring annuloplasty between usage of the Cosgrove-Edwards flexible band and the MC(3) rigid ring for repair of functional tricuspid regurgitation to determine the efficacy and mid-term durability of tricuspid annuloplasty. 117 patients with functional tricuspid regurgitation undergoing open heart surgery and tricuspid valve repair from May 2005 ...

BACKGROUND Annuloplasty ring or band implantation during surgical mitral valve repair perturbs mitral annular dimensions, dynamics, and shape, which have been associated with changes in anterior mitral leaflet (AML) strain patterns and suboptimal long-term repair durability. We hypothesized that rigid rings with nonphysiological three-dimensional shapes, but not saddle-shaped rigid rings or fle...

In this paper we construct a natural category ~r of locally and topologically ringed spaces which contains both the category of locally noetherian formal schemes and the category of rigid analytic varieties as full subcategories. This category has applications in algebraic geometry and rigid analytic geometry. The idea of the definition of the category ~r is the following. From a formal point o...

In this paper, crashworthiness characteristics of conical steel tubes stiffened by annular rings and rigid polyurethane foam are investigated. For this purpose, wide circumferential rings are created from the outer surface of the conical tube at some determined areas along tube length. In fact, this method divides a long conical tube into several tubes of shorter length. When this structure is ...

Let R be a ring, σ an automorphism of R and δ a σ-derivation of R. We recall that a ring R is said to be a δ-ring if aδ(a) ∈ P (R) implies a ∈ P (R), where P (R) denotes the prime radical of R. It is known that, if R is a Noetherian ring, σ an automorphism of R such that aσ(a) ∈ P (R) implies a ∈ P (R) and δ a σ-derivation of R such that R is a δ-ring with σ(δ(a)) = δ(σ(a)), for all a ∈ R, then...

Beam theory was used to evaluate the stiffness of a simulated orthodontic model as affected by the type of bracket, interbracket distance, type of ligature tie, and size of segment. For a given deflection, the model generated greater force (increased stiffness) as the beam constant (N) increased. N increased as interbracket distance increased. Metal ties were as rigid or more rigid than o-rings...

In this paper, we consider a depth inequality of Auslander which holds for finitely generated Tor-rigid modules over commutative Noetherian local rings. We raise the question whether such can be extended $n$-Tor-rigid modules, and obtain an affirmative answer $2$-Tor-rigid that are generically free. Furthermore, in appendix, use Dao's eta function determine new classes hypersurfaces quotient un...