The search for the ideal material to be used in frontalis suspension procedures to correct congenital ptosis has been going on for many years and continues to this day. This makes me believe that perhaps there is no ideal suspensory material other than autogenous fascia lata. To add a little perspective on this problem, I reviewed a publication from 1984 in which, along with my co-editor Leonar...

This study examines whether the human iliotibial band (ITB) is specialized for elastic energy storage relative to the chimpanzee fascia lata (FL). To quantify the energy storage potential of these structures, we created computer models of human and chimpanzee lower limbs based on detailed anatomical dissections. We characterized the geometry and force-length properties of the FL, tensor fascia ...

In this study, we developed and evaluated a novel text-mining approach, using non-negative tensor factorization (NTF), to simultaneously extract and functionally annotate transcriptional modules consisting of sets of genes, transcription factors (TFs), and terms from MEDLINE abstracts. A sparse 3-mode term × gene × TF tensor was constructed that contained weighted frequencies of 106,895 terms i...

Human faces are neither exactly Lambertian nor entirely convex and hence most models in literature which make the Lambertian assumption, fall short when dealing with specularities and cast shadows. In this paper, we present a novel anti-symmetric tensor spline (a spline for tensorvalued functions) based method for the estimation of the Apparent BRDF (ABRDF) field for human faces that seamlessly...

We prove a closed-form solution to second-order Tensor Voting (TV), and employ the resulting structure-aware tensors in ExpectationMaximization (EM). Our new algorithm, aptly called EM-TV, is an efficient and robust method for parameter estimation. Quantitative comparison shows that our method performs better than the conventional second-order TV and other representative techniques in parameter...

An 'incremental form' of anisotropic damage constitutive equation is proposed both for brittle and ductile materials. Based on the concept of irreversible thermodynamics that damage processes are history independent coupled with irreversible energy dissipation, two types of definition for damage representation are established, known as damage tensor D and damage strain tensor nd, to describe co...

Background Various therapeutic methods have been suggested to increase the flexibility of shortened muscles in patients with knee pain. However, no previous study has directly compared hip joint range motion (ROM) and muscle stiffness as a mechanical property following active stretching (AS) instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) for tensor fascia lata (TFL). Purpose To compare ef...