a comparison of two coordination approaches

... The Acutrak screw has a head diameter of 4.1 mm and a tip diameter of 4.0 mm The variable thread pitch causes the screw to advance through the two bone fragments at different rates, causing gradual ... Dias JJ, Dhukaram V, Abhinav A, Bhowal B, Wildin CJ: Clinical and radiological outcome of cast immobilization versus surgical treatment of acute scaphoid fractures at a mean follow-up of 93 months ... reason that the Acutrak screw provided greater final compression than the Synthes system may relate to the thread pattern The Acutrak is a fully threaded design that generates a large amount of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... The Acutrak screw has a head diameter of 4.1 mm and a tip diameter of 4.0 mm The variable thread pitch causes the screw to advance through the two bone fragments at different rates, causing gradual ... Dias JJ, Dhukaram V, Abhinav A, Bhowal B, Wildin CJ: Clinical and radiological outcome of cast immobilization versus surgical treatment of acute scaphoid fractures at a mean follow-up of 93 months ... reason that the Acutrak screw provided greater final compression than the Synthes system may relate to the thread pattern The Acutrak is a fully threaded design that generates a large amount of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... ha–1 y–1 Albania Austria Belgium Bosnia Bulgaria Belarus Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Netherlands ... boreal, temperate and Mediterranean average annual temperature anomaly (relative to 1961 to 1990 average) and variation in atmospheric CO2 concentration from EuroBiota input climate data Legend text ... EuroBiota, are shown in Figure Temperature anomalies are actually applied in EuroBiota to the mean 1961 to 1990 daily climatology for each month in each separate 0.5° cell separately An illustration...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... estimate of mean heartwood age as a and the mean total ellagitannins found in samples from each forest (table II) as T the concentrations of tannins in the , a oh new, outermost heartwood T can ... is also apparent and the data were log-transformed, resulting in more homogeneous variances A balanced, nested analysis of variance was used to compare the variation between and within trees and ... ellagitannins varied between sites, the percentage of each ellagitannin was calculated in relation to total soluble ellagitan- nins A nested analysis of variance was carried out on arcsine-transformed...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... Healing Total Healing Partial Healing No Healing Total Healing 2 Partial Healing Total Healing Total Healing Total Healing Total Healing No Healing Partial Healing Partial Healing Total Healing ... Healing Partial Healing Partial Healing Total Healing Total Healing Partial Healing Total Healing Total Healing No Healing Total Healing Mean 1.6 0.8 1.9 Sd 0.5 0.7 0.4 p-value Ostene™ vs Bone wax ... hemostatic treatment as an adjacent procedure to sternotomy Materials and methods All animal handling and caretaking was conducted in accordance with guidelines given by the Danish Inspectorate of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:23

... one-way-analysis of variance in case of normally distributed data with equal variances If other cases, we used analysis of variance-on-ranks, where the sum of ranks of each group was compared ... weight (Table 2) Statistical analysis Data are given as mean (SD) or as median [range] for respectively normally and non-normally distributed data We made comparisons of the groups (normal, PPVL, ... were taken: a lysate of human aorta endothelial cells (Transduction Labs, Lexington, USA) for eNOS; a homogenate of rat brains for nNOS; and a liver of a rat given LPS 800 µg/kg IV (Sigma, St...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... correlation of this scale was 0.75 [20] The correlation between the scale and a validation method (7 day food diary) was 0.32 in a separate validation study of 85 6th grade pupils, a correlation ... interval FV intake, fruit and vegetable intake EDU high, higher parental education EDU low, lower parental education Hilsen et al International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity ... +(bmod2*SEamod2)) An examination of the residuals did not reveal unacceptable departures from normality Since interaction terms have less power, p values, as an indicator of the significance, of interaction...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... phosphorylated EIIA activates adenylate cyclase (CyaA) and leads to an increase in the intracellular cyclic AMP (cAMP) level [1] Mathematical models of catabolite repression in E coli The (isolated) reactions ... metabolites An approach that combines flux balance analysis (FBA) with an ordinary differential equation (o.d.e.) model of the slow time scales is called dynamic flux balance analysis (dFBA), and ... system was analysed for a large number of substrates using a mathematical model, and it was shown that, in the case of non-PTS carbohydrates (carbohydrates that are not phosphorylated during uptake,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 13:20

... Muralikrishna GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine In VLDB ’86, pages 228–237, 1986 S Fushimi, M Kitsuregawa, and H Tanaka An Overview of The System Software of A Parallel Relational Database ... performance advantage over Hadoop MR in executing a variety of data intensive analysis benchmarks Averaged across all five tasks at 100 nodes, DBMS-X was 3.2 times faster than MR and Vertica was 2.3 ... phase on each node in parallel, the data was actually loaded on each node sequentially Thus, as the total of amount of data is increased, the load times also increased proportionately This also...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... paragraph as important, and the other sentences as not important We included this approach merely as a simple baseline 2.2 Word-based approaches Word-based approaches to summarization are based ... commercially available summarizer, the MSWord summarizer, against human sentence rankings Our reason for including an evaluation of the MSWord summarizer was to have a more useful baseline for scalable ... sentence rankings than the paragraph-based approach provides NoParagraph mean rank correlation coefficient WithParagraph 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 MSWord Luhn tf.idf MarcuAvg MarcuMin MarcuMax in-degree...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... payoffs but, as forecasts are not observable for all payoffs, intrinsic values are calculated from average ex post payoffs.2 Firm realizations are averaged in portfolios and portfolio values are ... on average had negative residual income and capitalizing a negative amount in the terminal value calculation reduces the valuation This is of course a legitimate calculation as firms can have ... be a constant in perpetuity Accordingly we examine accrual accounting against the pure DCF analysis with the understanding that this can be stated as a comparison of the terminal value calculation...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 16:06

... MAR MAR - MAR MAR - MAR MAR MAR MAR KAT Baseline months 12 months 24 months MCAR MAR MAR - MCAR MAR MAR - MAR MAR MAR MAR MAR MAR PRISM Baseline 12 months 24 months MAR MAR - MAR MAR - MAR MAR ... regression RECORD and PRISM data were found to be MAR at each assessment for each of the two scenarios KAT generally displayed MAR except in scenario two where data was MCAR Table 3: Results of Little's ... Mechanism Trial Assessment REFLUX Baseline months 12 months MAR MCAR - MCAR MCAR - MCAR MAR MCAR MAR MAVIS Baseline months 12 months MCAR MCAR - MCAR MAR - MAR MCAR/MAR MAR MCAR/MAR RECORD months...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... moreover, many climatological data are available only at the daily scale [47] However, an appropriate daily representation of canopy conductance lacks consensus (e.g compare the approaches in Tattori ... C .A. , Extrapolating plant water flow resistances and capacitances to regional scales, Agric [16] Jarvis P.G., The interpretation of the variations in leaf water potential and stomatal conductance ... variables can be approximated as linear over the appropriate temperature range Relationships between γ,λ and p averaged conductance, both when this conductance was obtained by averaging...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... Esteban A, Anzueto A, Frutos F, Alia A, Brochard L, Stewart TE, Benito S, Epstein SK, Apezteguia C, Nightingale P, Arroglia AC, Tobin MJ, Mechanical Ventilation International Study Group: Characteristics ... the measurement period surgical manipulation of the lung was not allowed A power analysis based on a previous study [15] revealed a total sample size of 38 patients was required to achieve a power ... electrocardiogram and SpO2 A 14-gauge IV catheter was inserted in an upper extremity vein and a 20-gauge catheter was inserted in a radial artery to permit continuous recording of arterial pressure After...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... insertion of a cannula In the CBR group two patients underwent surgical tracheostomy: in one patient the trachea was difficult to locate, and the cannula was placed pretracheally as a result of guide ... intensive care unit should visit patients, discharged to the general ward with a cannula in place, on a daily basis There are only few data available concerning late complications of percutaneous tracheostomy ... of the cannula by a mucous plug, leading to a cardiorespiratory arrest Another patient sustained a cardiorespiratory arrest shortly after decannulation, possibly due to aspiration Both patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Serodiagnosis of Human Brucellosis Clinical And Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 2003;4:612-5 Ordun A, Almaraz A, Prado A, Purıfıcacıo M, Gutıerrez N, Garc a- Pascual A, Duen A, Cuervo M, Abad R, ... Philadelphia: WB Saunders Co 1992: 1513-21 http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2011, 432 Casaoa MA, Navarroa E, Solerab J Evaluation of Brucellacapt for the diagnosis of human brucellosis Journal ... one another was investigated statistically In a comparative study conducted by Prado et al (6), immuncapture agglutination test (Brucellacapt), SAT and Coombs anti-Brucella test were compared...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... superlative degree of comparison only There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, ... Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter I Five Years Later II A Sight III A Disappointment ... were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:13

... photograph was extracted and the brightness was adjusted using a commercial image analysis software (SimpleVmpViewer) The transformed image was binarized, and the area covered by the moss was measured ... photograph of the moss was taken again All incubations were performed under aseptic condition The area covered by the moss was measured by an image analysis Only the saturated portion of the ... model and the accumulation model so far More detailed modeling of the BLM about heavy metal detoxification and conformation change of BL leads to more appropriate prediction of heavy metal toxicity...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... [g] NaBH4 [g] was obtained The solutions were then allowed to stand until air bubbles had disappeared and were cast onto a nonwoven support material that had been saturated with DMA An automated ... illuminated surface, also calculating the minor loss of intensity in the laser pathway The laser was set at an intensity of 0.2 W/cm2 Permeances were calculated as the amount of solvent (V) that passed ... ACKNOWLEDGMENT K.V acknowledges the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) for financial support as a research assistant This research was done in the framework of an I .A. P.-PAI grant (IAP 6/27)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/09/2013, 21:27

... systematic comparison of quasi-static algorithmic and Monte Carlo simulated approaches to physical experiments [13] Krishnasamy, Jakiela, and Whitney analyzed vibration-assisted entrapment of both ... Jayaraman Krishnasamy, Mark J Jakiela, and Daniel E Whitney Mechanics of vibration-assisted entrapment with application to design In International Conference on Robotics and Automation IEEE, April ... equivalence classes of stable states, and it then automatically categorizes the state (and hence, the equivalence class) of each part as the part exits the gate Experimental Results All of the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:15