The present experiment investigates the frame of reference involved in Visual-Auditory (VA) fusion over space. This multisensory phenomenon refers to the perception of unity (Welch & Warren, 1986) resulting from visual and auditory stimuli despite their potential spatial disparity. The extent of this illusion depends on the eccentricity in azimuth of the bimodal stimulus (Godfroy, Roumes, & Dau...

Pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare autoinflammatory syndrome manifested by skin lesions eventually creating ulcers. Surgical management can lead to scarring and contracture at the site of the lesion due to the pathergy phenomenon. A 43-year-old woman presented with a 5-year history of severe equinovarus deformity due to chronic pyoderma gangrenosum on her posteromedial ankle. She underwent a staged...

In this paper, a multi-scale image fusion method based on discrete wavelet frame (DWF) is proposed for merging a high-resolution panchromatic image and a low-resolution multispectral image. The downampling process is avoided by using discrete wavelet frame decomposition. It leads to translation invariant and is available for the image fusion. The lowfrequency part of the panchromatic image is d...

Solid bony fusion of large joints affected with active chronic infections, is still the most effective surgical solution to establish a useful function of the affected limb. Even with extensive peri-articular bone loss and severe deformities, arthrodesis in a functional position can provide effective stability. The reported fusion rates in such patients are not encouraging however, and secondar...

background and aims: since the produced recombinant proteins by molecular genetics techniques commonly have some limitations in the application, chimeric protein are introduced. chimeric proteins have found widespread application for the study of protein folding, structure stability, function and immunogenisity. methods: according to the known immunomodulatory effect and structure of hsp70 mole...

A novel geometrically exact model of the spatially curved Bernoulli–Euler beam is developed. The formulation utilizes Frenet–Serret frame as reference for updating orientation a cross section. weak form consistently derived and linearized, including contributions from kinematic constraints configuration-dependent load. nonlinear terms with respect to cross-sectional coordinates are strictly con...

for the nonlinear analysis of structures using the well known newton-raphson method, the tangent stiffness matrices of the elements must be constructed in each iteration. due to the high expense required to find the exact tangent stiffness matrices, researchers have developed novel innovations into the newton-raphson method to reduce the cost and time required by the analysis. in this paper, a ...