Rice model could help clinicians personalize hip joints
Rice University engineers hope to make life better for those with replacement joints by modeling how artificial hips are likely to rub them the wrong way.
The computational study by the Brown School of Engineering lab of mechanical engineer Fred Higgs simulates and tracks how hips evolve, uniquely incorporating fluid dynamics and roughness of the joint surfaces as well as factors clinicians typically use to predict how well implants will stand up over their expected 15-year lifetime.
The team s immediate goal is to advance the design of more robust prostheses.
Ultimately, they say the model could help clinicians personalize hip joints for patients depending on gender, weight, age and gait variations.
Democrats are one step closer to controlling the U.S. after Senator-elect Raphael Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler in the first Senate runoff election. Votes are still be counted in the race between incumbent GOP Senator David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff. But Ossoff is declaring victory.
On Wednesday’s edition of “Closer Look,” show host Rose Scott talks with a political science professor, a political strategist and a political analyst about the twin runoff election results.
In two separate virtual conversations, guests weigh in on several topics, including voter turnout, campaign and political ads strategies, President Trump’s influence on the election, and whether Georgia is undoubtedly blue or a mix between red and blue.
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HOUSTON - (Jan. 11, 2021) - Rice University engineers hope to make life better for those with replacement joints by modeling how artificial hips are likely to rub them the wrong way.
The computational study by the Brown School of Engineering lab of mechanical engineer Fred Higgs simulates and tracks how hips evolve, uniquely incorporating fluid dynamics and roughness of the joint surfaces as well as factors clinicians typically use to predict how well implants will stand up over their expected 15-year lifetime.
The Rev. Raphael Warnock, a pastor at the same Atlanta church where civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, is the first Black person ever elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Georgia.
Warnock, 51, who defeated incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler in Tuesday’s runoff election, is also the first Black Democrat to represent a Southern state in the Senate.
“I stand before you as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in America could only happen here," Warnock said in his virtual acceptance speech.
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ATLANTA – Democrats have captured both of Georgia’s seats in the U.S. Senate for the first time in nearly 20 years, a momentous feat that gives the party control of Congress and the White House.
Several media outlets declared Democrat Jon Ossoff the winner Wednesday afternoon in Tuesday’s tight runoff contest against incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue. Ossoff took 50.3% of the vote to 49.7% for Perdue, apparently just above the 0.5% margin of victory that under state law would have allowed Perdue to request a recount. Rev. Raphael Warnock captured Georgia’s other Senate seat earlier in th