23 research outputs found
Manifold-Based B-Splines on Unstructured Meshes
We introduce new manifold-based splines that are able to exactly reproduce
B-splines on unstructured surface meshes. Such splines can be used in
isogeometric analysis (IGA) to represent smooth surfaces of arbitrary topology.
Since prevalent computer-aided design (CAD) models are composed of
tensor-product B-spline patches, any IGA suitable construction should be able
to reproduce B-splines. To achieve this goal, we focus on univariate
manifold-based constructions that can reproduce B-splines. The manifold-based
splines are constructed by smoothly blending together polynomial interpolants
defined on overlapping charts. The proposed constructions automatically
reproduce B-splines in regular parts of the mesh, with no extraordinary
vertices, and polynomial basis functions in the remaining parts of the mesh. We
study and compare analytically and numerically the finite element convergence
of several univariate constructions. The obtained results directly carry over
to the tensor-product case
Warum können Patientinnen mit Anorexia nervosa depressiv und trotzdem leistungsfähig sein? Die mögliche Bedeutung von emotionaler Suppression im Rahmen eines leistungsbetonten Experiments
BACKGROUND: Inappropriate aldosterone and parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Accumulating evidence suggests bidirectional interplay between aldosterone and PTH. METHODS: We evaluated the cross-sectional relationship between plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC), aldosterone to renin ratio (ARR) and PTH and subsequently tested whether the interaction between PAC and PTH modified the risk of cardiovascular death. PAC [78.0 (48.0-123.0) pg/mL], ARR [6.4 (2.9-12.9) pg/mL/pg/mL] and PTH concentration [median: 29.0 (22.0-40.0) pg/mL] were measured in 3074 patients (mean age: 62.5 ± 10.6 years; 30.3% women) referred to coronary angiography in a tertiary care center in Southwest Germany. RESULTS: Using multiple linear regression analysis, PAC and ARR emerged as an independent predictor of higher PTH concentrations (β=0.12 and 0.21, P<0.001 for both) irrespective of intake of antihypertensive treatment, 25(OH)D, kidney function, serum calcium, phosphate, magnesium, cortisol, NT-pro-BNP, soluble α-klotho and FGF-23 concentration. After a median follow-up of 9.9 years, 512 (16.7%) participants had died due to fatal cardiovascular events. Multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis revealed that both PAC and PTH were independently associated with cardiovascular mortality, with a potential synergistic interaction (P=0.028). PAC and PTH are exclusively associated with cardiovascular death in subjects with PTH and PAC concentrations above the median, respectively (PAC: HR per log SD: 1.14; 95% CI 1.02-1.29; P=0.026; PTH: HR per log SD: 1.18; 95% CI 1.02-1.37; P=0.031). CONCLUSIONS: Higher PAC and ARR were independently associated with PTH. PAC was independently related to incident cardiovascular mortality exclusively in patients with elevated PTH and vice versa