Accurate assessment of the talo-crural (ankle) joint angle at physical examination is important for assessing extensibility of m. triceps surae (TS) in children with spastic cerebral paresis (SCP). The main aim of this study was to quantify foot flexibility during standardized measurements of TS muscle-tendon complex extensibility (i.e. based on fo...
Published in Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
PurposeA common problem during ACL reconstruction is asymmetry of proximal–distal graft diameter leading to tunnel upsizing and graft–tunnel mismatch. Compression downsizing provides a graft of uniform size, allowing easy passage into a smaller tunnel. The purpose of this study was to quantify the graft compression technique and its effects on graf...
The precise determination of the line tension of sessile droplets still represents a major challenge. At present, the estimates of the line tension from contact angle measurements can differ by 4–5 orders of magnitude. Here we show that the pinning effect of the droplet contact line caused by the substrate inhomogeneities influences the apparent co...
A significant increase in the Leidenfrost temperature (LFT) was observed on a micro/nano rnultiscale textured surface (MTS) compared with a polished surface (PS) and a micro rough surface (MRS). MTS was fabricated by anodic oxidation and has nano-scaled needles with micro roughness. It showed improved surface wetting characteristics (0 contact angl...
Published in Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
Two new coordination polymers [Cd(bmb)(hmph)]n (1), {[Ag(bmb)]·H2btc}n (2) (bmb=1,4-bis(2-methylbenzimidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene, H2hmph=homophthalic acid, H3btc=1,3,5-benzenetetracarboxylic acid) were synthesized under hydrothermal conditions and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods, IR spectroscopy, TGA, XRPD and elemental ana...
Published in The European Physical Journal C
To study a flavour model with a non-minimal Higgs sector one must first define the symmetries of the fields; then identify what types of vacua exist and how they may break the symmetries; and finally determine whether the remnant symmetries are compatible with the experimental data. Here we address all these issues in the context of flavour models ...
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