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1Department of Human and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan 2Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Mapoku, Seoul 121-742, Republic of Korea 4 Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Univ...

1 Université de Lyon, F-42023, Saint-Etienne, France, CNRS, UMR5516, Laboratoire Hubert Curien,Université de Saint-Etienne Telecom Saint Etienne, F-42000, SaintEtienne, France, 2 Laboratoire de Physique de l ́ENSL, UMR5672 CNRS, 46 Allée d ́Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France, 3 Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d ́Acoustique UMR5509, Ecole Centrale de Lyon CNRS Université Claude Bernard Lyo...

The initial Upper Paleolithic (Châtelperronian) of western Europe was associated with late European Neandertals, best known through the Saint-Césaire 1 partial skeleton. Biomechanical cross-sectional analysis of the Saint-Césaire 1 femoral diaphysis at the subtrochanteric and midshaft levels, given the plasticity of mammalian diaphyseal cortical bone, provides insights into the habitual levels ...

138. Do Criteria-Based Urine Cultures Contribute to Unnecessary Antibiotic Use at a Community Teaching Hospital? Kayla Uganski, PharmD; Kasey Bucher, PharmD; G. Robert Deyoung, PharmD; Nnaemeka Egwuatu, MD, MPH; Andrew Weise, MD; Jessica Prusa, PharmD; Lisa Dumkow, PharmD; Pharmaceutical Services, Mercy Health Saint Mary’s, Grand Rapids, MI; Infectious Diseases, Mercy Health Saint Mary’s, Grand...

The Statement of Modified Saint-Venant’s Principle is suggested. The axisymmetrical deformation of the infinite circular cylinder loaded by an equilibrium system of forces on its near end is discussed and its formulation of Modified Saint-Venant’s Principle is established. It is evident that finding solutions of boundary-value problems is a precise and pertinent approach to establish Saint-Vena...

a Reference Centre for Severe Pulmonary Hypertension, Department of Respiratory Medicine, AP-HP, Hôpital Bicêtre, INSERM U999, University Paris Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre , b Department of Therapeutic Medicine, CHU Saint-Etienne, University of Saint-Etienne, Thrombosis Research Group, EA3065, Saint-Etienne , and c Hospices Civils de Lyon, Reference Center for Rare Pulmonary Diseases, Department of...

The Red-eyed Coquí, Eleutherodactylus antillensis, is a terrestrial frog endemic to the Puerto Rican Bank (Puerto Rico and numerous islands and cays off its eastern coast), in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The species was likely introduced in Saint Croix, an island c. 100 km southeast of Puerto Rico, in the late 1930s, and in Panamá City, Panamá, in the late 1950s or early 1960s, but the source(s)...

Torsion of elastic and poroelastic circular shaft of radially inhomogeneous, cylindrically orthotropic materials is studied with emphasis on the end effects example for extruder. To examine the conjecture of Saint-Venant’s torsion, we consider torsion of circular shaft with one end fixed and the other end free on which tractions that results in a pure torque are prescribed arbitrarily over the fr...