A commonly used method to determine the strength of adhesion between adhering lipid vesicles is measuring their effective contact angle from experimental images. The aim of this paper is to estimate the interobserver variations in vesicles effective contact angle measurements and to propose a new method for estimating the strength of membrane vesicle adhesion. Theoretical model shows for the ol...

OBJECTIVE To measure the sagittal areas of the front and back cavities of the vocal tract in children acquiring speech. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ten female children were selected from the Serial Experimental collection of the Burlington Growth Centre in Toronto, Canada. Each of the 10 children was seen annually from ages 3 through 8. Data collections included lateral cephalograms in occlusion. We...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between hip and knee strength with knee valgus angle during drop jump in elite female athletes. Methods: Forty female athletes (mean ± SD age, 21.5 ± 1.99 years height, 169.08 ± 8.25 cm body mass, 61.05 ± 10.06 kg) participated in this study. Isometric hip and knee muscles strength were evaluated using standard clinical...

We show that for any ǫ > 0 there exists an angle α = α(ǫ) between 0 and π, depending only on ǫ, with the following two properties: (1) For any continuous probability measure in the plane one can find two lines l1 and l2, crossing at an angle of (at least) α, such that the measure of each of the two opposite quadrants of angle π − α, determined by l1 and l2, is at least 1 2 − ǫ. (2) For any set ...

background: abnormal angulation of the lunate can be an indication of intercarpal pathology. on magnetic resonance images (mris) the lunate often looks dorsally angulated, even in healthy wrists. the tilt on individual slices can also be different and might be misinterpreted as pathological, contributing to inaccurate diagnoses and unnecessary surgery. the primary aim of this study was to deter...

We propose a new method to calculate Faraday rotation measure maps from multi-frequency polarisation angle data. In order to solve the so called nπ-ambiguity problem which arises from the observationally ambiguity of the polarisation angle which is only determined up to additions of ±nπ, where n is an integer, we suggest using a global scheme. Instead of solving the nπ-ambiguity for each data p...