BACKGROUND Orthopaedists make great use of eponymous equipment, however the origins of these tools are unknown to many users. This history enriches, enlightens, and enhances surgical education, and may inspire modern innovation. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES We explored the origins of common and eponymous orthopaedic equipment. METHODS We selected pieces of equipment named for their inventors and in t...

A large variety of research tools is available now for music information retrieval tasks. In this paper we present a further framework which aims to facilitate the interaction between these applications. Since the available tools are very different in target domain, range of available methods, learning efforts, installation and runtime characteristics etc., it is not easy to find software which...

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), along with other national laboratories, has been developing a solvent extraction process for partitioning of spent fuel constituents to lead to safer and cheaper disposal of high-level waste. The process, known as UREX+, separates key radionuclides from dissolved spent fuel into: (1) uranium for disposal as LLW, (2) technetium for disposal as HLW, (3) iodine f...

In this paper, a novel method for linear normal mode identification based on Blind Source Separation (BSS) is introduced. Modal coordinates are considered as a specific case of sources that have certain time structure. This structure can be identified by many BSS algorithms. However, algorithms based on second order statistics are particularly suited for the linear normal mode identification. T...