The purpose of this paper is to extend the Green-Naghdi-Rivlin balance of energy method to continua with microstructure. The key idea is to replace the group of Galilean transformations with the group of diffeomorphisms of the ambient space. A key advantage is that one obtains in a natural way all the needed balance laws on both the macro and micro levels along with two Doyle-Erickson formulas....

PURPOSE To evaluate morning dream recall frequency and content in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS Fifty-two patients with pharmacoresistant TLE submitted to a written dream diary during five consecutive days and continuous video-electroencephalographic (video-EEG) monitoring. A matched control group of 41 healthy subjects completed the same diary at home. The number of rec...

Confusion is a common presentation to acute medical services; often in the setting ofmetabolic disturbance, such as alcoholic liver disease. Seizure activity should always be considered as a potentially reversible cause, and must be differentiated from encephalopathy. This case also demonstrates that both focal and generalised seizure activity can result from a metabolic cause without a focal l...

In working with collections of continua it is sometimes useful to know something of the character of the point set consisting of all the points common to two or more members of the collection. Also it is of advantage to know conditions under which we may subtract a countable number of continua from the collection and have left a collection of mutually exclusive continua. The theorem which we sh...

There is no widely accepted classification of nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) and any classification has its own strengths and flaws. The following article incorporates the two main proposals of the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE) and Shorvon for the classification of NCSE. In general, NCSE may be subdivided into the focal and (primary) generalized forms, and in those types...

The Jacobian of deformation at a material point can be decomposed into the stretch tensor and the rotation tensor. Thus, varying Jacobians of deformation at the neighboring material points in the deforming volume of solid continua would yield varying stretch and rotation tensors at the material points. Measures of strain, such as Green’s strain, at a material point are purely a function of the ...

A treatment of internally constrained mixtures of elastic continua at a common temperature is de­ veloped. Internal constraints involving the defonnation gradient tensors and the common mixture temperature are represented by a constraint manifold, and an internally constrained mixture ofelastic continua is associated with each unique equivalence class ofunconstrained mixtures. The example of in...