Publications by authors named "Lucas Ray"

The acetabular labrum plays a key role in proper biomechanical hip function through creation or maintenance of a suction seal between the femoral head and acetabulum. The suction seal effect has been shown to provide stability within the hip, improve biomechanics, and decrease the chance for long-term development of osteoarthritis by optimizing function and force distribution within the hip. Femoral acetabular impingement syndrome damages the labrum and chondrolabral junction, thus negatively impacting the ability of the labrum to maintain native suction seal.

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The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in their central regions, including our Milky Way. Bars are supposed to develop in dynamically cold stellar disks at low redshift, as the strong gas turbulence typical of disk galaxies at high redshift suppresses or delays bar formation. Moreover, simulations predict bars to be almost absent beyond z = 1.

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During the first 500 million years of cosmic history, the first stars and galaxies formed, seeding the Universe with heavy elements and eventually reionizing the intergalactic medium. Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a surprisingly high abundance of candidates for early star-forming galaxies, with distances (redshifts, z), estimated from multiband photometry, as large as z ≈ 16, far beyond pre-JWST limits. Although such photometric redshifts are generally robust, they can suffer from degeneracies and occasionally catastrophic errors.

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Case: We report a 67-year-old healthy man who sustained bilateral hyper-plantarflexion injuries falling off a ladder that resulted in bilateral tibialis anterior tendon tears one month prior to presentation. His injuries were effectively managed with bilateral delayed operative treatment. After non-weightbearing for three months, the patient was subsequently permitted to full weight bear in CAM boots for three months.

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Purpose: Transverse deficiency (TD) and symbrachydactyly may be difficult to distinguish due to shared phenotypes and a lack of pathognomonic features. The 2020 Oberg-Manske-Tonkin classification update modified these anomalies to include "with ectodermal elements" for symbrachydactyly and "without ectodermal elements" for TD as a defining differentiating characteristic. The purpose of this investigation was to characterize ectodermal elements and the level of deficiency and to examine whether ectodermal elements versus the level of deficiency was a greater determining factor for Congenital Upper Limb Differences (CoULD) surgeons making the diagnosis.

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Objectives: The primary objective of this study was to identify skin disorders encountered in a population of sport sailors. Unlike merchant mariners and fishermen, there is sparse literature on this maritime population. Secondary objectives were to uncover on-board conditions that may contribute to dermatological problems in this population.

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To address concerns about how to obtain the height-height spectrum from simulations of biomembranes, we emulated the fluctuations in real space using exact input spectra. Two different methods that have given different results in the literature were then used to extract spectra from the emulated fluctuations that were then compared to the exact input spectra. A real space method shows systematic, but small deviations attributed to splines introducing an artifactual filter.

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The purpose of this study is to characterize the types of skin disorders occurring at sea requiring acute treatment. The case logs of a tele-medicine service for US flagged ships at sea were reviewed from March 1, 2006 until March 1, 2009. Of 1844 total cases, 10% (n = 183) were for skin disorders.

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Objectives: The objective was to evaluate the association between hospital census variables and emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS). This may give insights into future strategies to relieve ED crowding.

Methods: This multicenter cohort study captured ED LOS and disposition for all ED patients in five hospitals during five 1-week study periods.

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Objective: Our objective is to describe the rationale and methods for the economic analysis of the PAD trial. The objective of this analysis is to assess whether automated external defibrillators (AEDs) use by lay responders is good value for money.

Methods: Design.

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