A t the mention of mitochondria, do you visualize little lozenge-shaped organelles that sit passively in the cytoplasm, quietly brewing up ATP and only getting to do something exciting after being enlisted in an apop-totic cascade? That image, comforting though it may be, is woefully incomplete. In fact, says McGill University's Heidi McBride, mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that for...

Background:   Hallux valgus deformity is a common chronic problem in middle age and elderly. Different surgical procedures have been introduced so far with their proposed indications for each. This study aimed to compare three   current procedures namely Chevron osteotomy, Scarf osteotomy and McBride technique.     Methods:   In this study, 44 patients were included from 2010 to 2013. All patie...

Background: many surgical procedures were described for correction of hallux valgus and the type of operation is based upon; foot length, width and redressibility of the transverse arch, hallux valgus evaluation of possibility of its passive redression and radiographic examination of foot. Aim of the work: To evaluate the results of hallux valgus surgery combining the distal soft tissue reconst...

An algorithm for the identification of a multi-input single-output (MISO) Box-Jenkins model is developed. The method consists of several simple steps: first a high order ARX model is estimated; then the process model is calculated using the so-called Steiglitz-McBride iteration on the filtered inputoutput data; and finally the disturbance model is calculated by estimating an ARMA model of the o...

Here we provide FORTRAN source code to facilitate the calculation of the ‘‘Noya–Vega–McBride’’ (NVM) rotational propagator for asymmetric tops [E.G. Noya, C. Vega, C. McBride, J. Chem. Phys. 134 (2011) 054117] for a given value of PT and A, B and C , where P is the number of beads, T is the temperature, and A, B and C are the rotational constants for the system in question. The resulting NVM pr...

Two novel adaptive notch filters are presented. The updating algorithms are based on the Steiglitz-McBride error criterion minimization and the basic realizations of the notch filters are all-pass based lattice filters. The proposed realizations represent an extension of a previous ad-hoc scheme for adaptive notch filtering and avoid finding the roots of a high order polynomial to obtain the un...