background: numerical study of angulation effects of renal arteries on blood flow has been of great interest for many researchers. objective: this paper aims at numerically determining the angulation effects of stenosed renal arteries on blood flow velocity and renal mass flow. method: an anatomically realistic model of abdominal aorta and renal arteries is reconstructed from ct-scan images and...

This paper studies stable and (one-sided) strategy-proof matching rules in manyto-onematchingmarkets with contracts. First, the number of such rules is shown to be at most one. Second, the doctor-optimal stable rule, whenever it exists, is shown to be the unique candidate for a stable and strategy-proof rule. Third, a stable and strategyproof rule, when exists, is shown to be second-best optima...

We propose an adaptive framework for branching rule selection that is based on a set of branching rules. Each branching rule is attached a preference value that is dynamically adapted with respect to conflict analysis. Thus, our approach brings together two essential features of modern SAT algorithms which were traditionally independent from each other. Experimental results show the feasibility...

I introduce an account of when a rule normatively sus tains a practice. My basic proposal is that a rule normatively sustains a practice when the value achieved by following the rule ex plains why agents continue following that rule, thus establishing and sustaining a pattern of activity. I apply this model to practices of belief management and identify a substantive normative connection betwee...

Noradrenergic (NA) nerve fiber density was investigated in the subepicardium and myocardium of ventricles in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) and was compared with that of normotensive Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats. Fluorescent NA nerve fibers in the subepicardium of the right and left ventricles of both strains at the ages of 10, 30, 60, 90, and 180 days were examined by the glyo...