Sharply Angled Lateral Curvature Modification in Anal Fin of a Viviparous Fish, Xenotoca variata (Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsuo Iida ◽  
Risako Nakai ◽  
Jumpei Nomura ◽  
Rieko Tanaka ◽  
Nobutoshi Mizuno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Viviparous Fish ◽  
Lateral Curvature

scholarly journals Evaluation of the nature and etiologies of risk factors for diaphyseal atypical femoral fractures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Tsuchie ◽  
Naohisa Miyakoshi ◽  
Yuji Kasukawa ◽  
Koji Nozaka ◽  
Kimio Saito ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Femoral Fractures ◽  
Japanese Patients ◽  
High Serum ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Atypical Femoral Fractures ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Lateral Curvature ◽  
Low Serum

Objectives: Differences in the mechanisms of subtrochanteric and diaphyseal atypical femoral fractures (AFFs) have been speculated in studies that have analyzed differences in the patients’ backgrounds. However, the etiologies of each type of AFF have not been investigated in detail. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the nature and etiologies of the risk factors for diaphyseal AFFs. Materials and Methods: Eighty consecutive Japanese patients with 91 diaphyseal AFFs (the AFF group) and 110 age-matched female patients with osteoporosis (the non-AFF control group) were included. Their clinical data were compared and the factors affecting AFFs were investigated. Furthermore, the etiologies of the risk factors for diaphyseal AFFs were examined. Results: Multivariate analysis revealed that femoral serrated changes, bisphosphonate or denosumab usage, and lateral and anterior femoral curvatures were the risk factors for diaphyseal AFFs (p<0.0011, p=0.0137, and p<0.0001, respectively). Multivariate analyses also revealed that serrated changes and low serum 25(OH)D levels affected the lateral curvature (p=0.0088 and 0.0205, respectively), while serrated changes affected the anterior curvature (p=0.0006); each significantly affected the femoral curvature. In addition, a high serum calcium (Ca) level, lateral femoral curvature, and anterior femoral curvature were the predictors of serrated changes (p=0.0146, 0.0002, and 0.0098, respectively). Conclusion: The risk factors for diaphyseal AFFs were bone resorption inhibitor usage, a strong femoral curvature, and serrated changes. A low serum 25(OH)D level and serrated changes are the risk factors for lateral curvature, while a high serum Ca level is a risk factor for serrated changes.

scholarly journals Treatment of Lateral Curvature

1904 ◽  
Vol 151 (18) ◽  
pp. 479-481
Author(s):  
EDWARD H. BRADFORD
Keyword(s):  
Lateral Curvature

Memoirs: Observation on the Breeding and Development of the viviparous fish, Heterandria formosa

1940 ◽  
Vol s2-81 (324) ◽  
pp. 479-520
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH A. FRASER ◽  
RACHEL M. RENTON
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Late Development ◽  
Head Region ◽  
Mature Ovum ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Viviparous Fish ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Noteworthy Feature ◽  
Heterandria Formosa

1. A short account is given of the breeding habits of Heterandria formosa in an aquarium. 2. The ovary and the mature ovum are briefly described, the noteworthy feature of the ripe ovum being the small quantity of yolk. 3. Degeneration of ova is found to be a common occurrence in unfertilized females, and to a less extent in those full of developing embryos. 4. The method for ensuring the fertilization of the egg within the follicle is portrayed. Over the area where the spermatozoa have entered the cells of the ovarian epithelium and those of the follicle form a solid plug which eventually disrupts to enable the fully developed embryo to escape into the cavity of the ovary. 5. It is characteristic of early development that the egg is encircled by a unilaminar ectoderm before there is any visible differentiation into endoderm and mesoderm. 6. Owing to the scarcity of yolk only a few periblast cells arise and no syncytial layer is formed. 7. The primitive-germ cells are visible at an early stage within the apparently undifferentiated mesendoderm cells. 8. A striking feature is the large size of the pericardium and its growth upwards as a pericardium hood which completely surrounds the head region of the embryo. Over the walls runs a network of blood-vessels from which the maternal capillaries become eventually separated by only an attenuated layer of protoplasm. Both respiration and nutrition are effected through the follicle. 9. A remarkable specialization is the development of a urinary bladder which expands into a thin-walled vesicle of enormous dimensions, finally occupying almost the entire area formerly filled by the pericardium and the yolk-granules. 10. The development of Heterandria is compared with that of other viviparous fishes. 11. The significance of the unusual features in early and late development is discussed and some comparisons are made with the conditions in higher vertebrates.

STABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE THIN POWER LAW LIQUID FILM FLOWING DOWN ON A VERTICAL CYLINDER

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Po-Jen Cheng ◽  
Kuo-Chi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Film ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Film Flow ◽  
Vertical Cylinder ◽  
Flow Index ◽  
Free Film ◽  
Long Wave ◽  
Lateral Curvature ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Film Interface

The paper investigates the stability theory of a thin power law liquid film flowing down along the outside surface of a vertical cylinder. The long-wave perturbation method is employed to solve for generalized linear kinematic equations with free film interface. The normal mode approach is used to compute the stability solution for the film flow. The degree of instability in the film flow is further intensified by the lateral curvature of cylinder. This is somewhat different from that of the planar flow. The analysis results also indicate that by increasing the flow index and increasing the radius of the cylinder the film flow can become relatively more stable as traveling down along the vertical cylinder.

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