conclusions the odscp has many advantages over the other type of plates. it can help the surgeon to operate with a relaxed mind and it is advisable for high tibial medial open wedge osteotomies. results the mean follow-up time was 9.33 ± 1.87 month. the average age was 45.13 ± 7.25 years. three patients were male and 13 patients were female. the lysholm score showed a significant difference bef...

BACKGROUND Varus deformity increases the risk of progression of medial compartment knee osteoarthritis. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical and radiographic mid-term results of closing-wedge and opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy when used to treat this condition. METHODS From January 2001 to April 2004, ninety-two patients were randomized to receive either a closing-wedge ...

In this paper a knowledge-based clustered partitioning technique is developed for determining reliability index and failure probability of rock wedge. Here, the a reliability index is analyzed and the optimization is carried out using a knowledge-based clustered partitioning (KCP) technique. The reliability index computed with this KCP technique is compared with those using other approaches suc...

The previously analyzed holographic encoding of bulk matter is generalized from wedges to double cones. As a result of the conformal invariance of the holographically projected wedge-bulk matter, one may apply a conformal transformation in the ambient space which maps the holographic projection of the wedge into that of the double cone. In the massive case this conformal map cannot be used for ...

Complete solutions for the diaphanous wedge, by which is meant a wedge with identical wavenumbers inside and outside the wedge, are presented. The results are obtained from an integral equation for the fields on the wedge, which is solved by the Mellin and KantorovichLebedev transforms in the static and dynamic cases, respectively. Pertinent formulations of Gegenbauer’s addition theorems play a...

The propagation of wedge waves at anisotropic monocrystalline silicon edges with different symmetry properties has been studied in detail. The reduced symmetry in crystals, as compared to isotropic media, causes a number of new features, such as the existence of supersonic leaky wedge waves and tilted spatial pulse profiles. Experimental and theoretical results are presented for three different...

Let V be a four-dimensional real vector space with a fixed orientation. Then the wedge product can be viewed, up to a positive factor, as a canonical quadratic form of signature (3, 3) on the six-dimensional space ΛV . This gives a homomorphism from the identity component of the general linear group GL(V ) to the conformal group of the indefinite form, which is a local isomorphism. The signific...

0.1. Why Do We Want to Decompose a Space? Basically the goal of mathematics is to classify certain objects. For instance, we are able to classify 2-dimensional manifolds. Then we are trying to classify 3-manifolds while Poincaré conjecture sounds difficult to be solved. In homotopy theory, a general question is how to classify spaces (up to homotopy). The general idea for classifying spaces is:...

Salt wedges divide coastal groundwater flow regime into two distinct regions that include a freshwater region above the saltwater-freshwater interface and a saltwater region below the interface. Several recent studies have investigated saltwater transport in coastal aquifers and the associated flow and mixing processes. Most of these studies, however, have either focused on studying the movemen...