Patient specific finite element modeling of the human lumbar motion segment

... 5.2 The effect of Poisson’s ratio of the disc nucleus on the axial stiffness of the lumbar motion segment 60 Fig 5.3 The effect of Young’s Modulus of the disc nucleus on the axial stiffness of the ... forms of spinal pathologies Patient- specificity of a finite element model of the lumbar spine in both geometry and material property proves cruc...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2015, 13:32

... for the modeling of the human upper airway from multimodal 3D dentofacial images The experiments described in the thesis demonstrate the performance of each method in upper airway segmentation ... studies of the segmentation of the upper airway are reviewed The objectives and outline of the thesis are then presented and this is followed by...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:13

... model the intricate microstructure of cancellous bone or (b) model the cancellous bone as a solid, with properties reflecting its porosity For intraosseous PMMA bone cement flow simulation using CFD, ... stress/strain analysis Intraosseous flow visualization is not possible and cement distributions are generic and idealized in these models An improved finite v...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 21:18

... study The objective of this research is to study the behaviors of hybrid- fiber ECC targets subjected to impact and blast loading and to evaluate the potential of hybrid- fiber ECC as protective ... FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF HYBRID- FIBER ECC TARGETS SUBJECTED TO IMPACT AND BLAST LEE SIEW CHIN (B Eng (Hons), UTM) A THESIS SUBMITTED F...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... has already established Of two possible dimeric structures of LPL, the head-tohead and the head-to-tail models, the studies of the chimeric proteins of hepatic lipase and LPL and the tandem repeat ... (Fig 4A and B, 5) The lipase activity of the K413A mutant is similar to that of wild type LPL, whereas the esterase activity is reduced to 60% of t...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20

... Modified aminoallyl thymidines in the probes are indicated with "x" The sequence of one binding site for MS2 is underlined in the HIV_MS2 probe However, the number of HIV -1 nascent RNAs in Tat-transfected ... Co-transfection of a plasmid encoding pEYFPMS2nls does not affect the splicing reaction, ruling out perturbation of the system by such a strong RNA bindin...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... al., In silico modeling of the specific inhibitory potential of thiophene-2,3-dihydro-1,5-benzothiazepine against BChE in the formation of ?-amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease Theoretical ... whereas the activity of AChE declines BChE may, therefore, play a more prominent role in ACh hydrolysis in the aging brain The presenc...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... incorporate the model into the finite element analysis is by employing interface elements The first interface element was formulated by FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF FRACTURE IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES ... CHAPTER 1—INTRODUCTION In this report, the state -of- the- art in finite element modeling of concrete is viewed from a fracture mechanics perspec...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 21:58

... facial bones and cranial bones as well as intracranial injuries are evaluated based on the tolerance limits of the biomechanical parameters General trend of maximum intracranial biomechanical parameters ... thanks to all of my colleagues and my best friends Arpan Gupta, Guo Shifeng, Zhu Jianhua, Zhuang Han, Liu Yilin, Kyrin Liong, Saeid Arabnejad Khanooki, Shahrokh Sepehri Rahna...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:04

... reported that 5% of the cases of oral squamous cell carcinoma show diminished expression of hMSH2 protein In the present study, we demonstrated decreased expression of hMSH2 protein in reticular ... OLP subtypes Figure Positive labelling for hMSH2 protein in basal and intermediate epithelial layers of reticular subtype of oral lichen planus patient (str...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:54

... in proverbs referring to parts of the human body 3.4 Personification in proverbs referring to parts of the human body Table The meanings of English proverbs referring to parts of the human body ... to parts of the human body Chapter A contrastive analysis on English and Vietnamese proverbs referring to parts...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 00:03

... of class of words denoting parts of human body in English and VietNamese on semantic transference 2.1 The origin of names referring to parts of the human body According to the aspect of origin, ... features - The amount of meanings In English, there are 82 words having primary meaning referring to parts of the human body possess...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 21:45

... S103 G145/D137 Y 112 D2 01/ 193 L75/67 G145/D137 E1 41/ 133 K173 /16 5 R207 /19 9 G77/69 D142 /13 4 G197 /18 9 Fig Superposition of PRTFDC1 with HPRT-ImmGP (Protein Data Bank code: 1BZY) (A) Residues in the ... Welin et al Studies of the human PRTFDC1 B A PRTFDC1 25 HPRT 20 10 00 0.2 800 600 400 0 .1 200 –50 50 10 10 50 10 015 0 200 250 S 200 –50 250 50 12 00 10 0 15 0 [H...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... HsRad51 to examine whether these loops are actually involved in DNA binding Because aromatic residues are involved in the ssDNA binding by bacterial single stranded DNA- binding protein (SSB) and ... mutagenesis across the HsRad51 -L1 loop, and tested the interaction between the L1 loop and DNA A D B E Involvement of the L1 loop-Tyr232 residue in DNA...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... from the human KLK11 gene We determined the nucleotide sequences of 15 clones of the PCR products from the human prostate by oligo cap RACE in order to determine the transcrip- Multiple promoters ... type of KLK11, isoform 2, despite the presence of exon 1c The secretory pathways of KLK11 isoforms appeared to differ, although both isoforms were secreted from ce...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20