a surgical and bioengineering approach

... bilateral Presurgical evaluation A wax-up was performed and a duplicate cast was fabricated with type dental stone (Microstone, Whip Mix) An impression of the opposing arch was made and a cast ... Straumann gonyX Surgical and restorative procedure The patient was premedicated and prepared for surgery in the same fashion as case The surgical template was tried, and after an accurate it was ensured, ... pins that allowed for consistent orientation during digital surgical planning and surgical template fabrication A cone beam tomography scan of the patient was taken with the radiographic template...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2016, 17:15

... Tong T, Yang Z, Delzeit L, Kashani A, Meyyappan M and Majumdar A 2007 Dense vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube arrays as thermal interface materials IEEE Trans Compon Packag Technol ... this paper, we explore the use of metallization and bonding of VACNT films for the creation of thermal interface and die attachment materials The metallization is based on evaporated titanium and ... will be based on techniques which can maximize the number of contacts at each interface [9] Cola B A, Capano M A, Amama P B, Xu X and Fisher T S 2008 Carbon nanotube array thermal interfaces for...

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2014, 08:53

... children at age were morphological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and word reading at age 5, suggesting that rapid automatized naming and morphological awareness are relatively strong correlates ... Beijing, Mainland China, employing a psychophysical experiment, i.e., the motion-onset paradigm A similar psychophysical paradigm was first employed by RogersRamachandran and Ramachandran (1998) ... Developmental dyslexia and dysgraphia: a case report (in Japanese) NO TO HATTATSU (Brain and Child Development) 29, 249–253 Kaneko, M., Uno, A. , Kaga, M., Matsuda, H., Inagaki, M., Haruhara, N (1998)...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20

... initial manuscript DJH performed the initial operation, and organised the primary management plan of the patient He supervised the writing and editing of the paper All the authors have read and approved ... Nahleh ZA: Hormonal therapy for male breast cancer: A different approach for a different disease Cancer Treat Rev 2006, 32:101-105 Fentiman IS, Fourquet A, Hortobagyi GN: Male breast cancer Lancet ... Abbreviations ANC: axillary node clearance; BCS: breast conserving surgery; DCIS: ductal carcinoma in situ; FBC: female breast cancer; FNA: fine needle aspiration; IDC: invasive ductal carcinoma;...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... beings, maintaining literally an arm's length from others wherever practicable, and staying home when sick, will achieve more than all the antiseptic wipes and face masks that can be manufactured ... CDC and WHO are actively promulgating behavioral changes that can reduce the circulation of influenza [17] Further education and preparation of health care workers and first responders to deal ... has been measured and appropriate The good faith of the public is a precious commodity When one day a pandemic is trumpeted, and the next day the outbreak is called no more than normal flu and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... board European aircraft Materials and methods This study originates from the surgical department of an academic teaching hospital (Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, ... registered commercial aircraft with more than one flight attendant or 12 seats to carry an automatic external defibrillator (AED) Although most large national European national airlines carry AEDs, some ... Braunschweig, Germany) and the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA; Cologne, Germany) regulate aviation on the national and continental level They regulate by law the contents of an on-board...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... calculate an output variable from other input variables and parameters The structural analysis by ISM classifies variables and parameters in accordance with the hierarchical levels, which are obtained ... turn, leads to a significant elevation in RI value Bradycardia and hypertension also lead to elevated intrarenal RI If blood pressure and heart flow are stable, an increase in heart level causes ... as abdominal vascular US Anesthetic agents may change systemic and renal hemodynamics and subsequently impact on vascular resistance Extensive data on the cardiovascular effects of drugs can...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 23:20

... programs in the Philadelphia area He studied classical yoga with Dr Jayadeva and Hansaji Yogendra at the Yoga Institute in Bombay, India, and is author of Classical Yoga Study Guide Jack Carman, ASLA, ... that dietary saturated fat and trans fats should be reduced, and dietary omega-3 fatty acids and monounsaturated fats should be increased Anticancer Phytochemicals Table 2.1 shows the foods and ... different fats For example, fats are categorized as 18 Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Older Adults saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated, and the optimal balance for immune...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... essentially the same in both cases and, above all, no appreciable differences in the rates of disappearance of ATP or appearance of Ino were observed Theoretical approach mathematical simulation ... the above values, application of the MATHEMATICA-3.0 program [37] to the case of a reaction mixture containing ATP, ADP and AMP (at the same concentrations as those present in the experimental approach, ... cells and automated assays of adenylate, citrate, pyruvate and glucose-6-phosphate pools Anal Biochem 58, 208216 23 Sillero, M .A. , Del Valle, M., Zaera, E., Michelena, P., Garcia, A. G & Sillero, A...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... Chakravarty, Rajkumar Patra and Rohit Raja Chapter Density Estimation and Wavelet Thresholding via Bayesian Methods: A Wavelet Probability Band and Related Metrics Approach to Assess Agitation and ... Wavelet Transforms Techniques 27 Awad Kh Al-Asmari and Farhan A Al-Enizi Chapter DWT Based Resolution Enhancement of Video Sequences 45 Sara Izadpanahi, Cagri Ozcinar, Gholamreza Anbarjafari and ... Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Hasan Demirel, Sara Izadpenahi, Cagri Ozcinar, Dr Awad Kh Al-Asmari, Farhaan Al-Enizi, Fayez El-Sousy Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... education and disease and case management (for heart disease and stroke, diabetes, prenatal care, immunizations, breast and cervical cancer, diabetes, and asthma) but also the promotion of change ... health insurance; enrollment and referral to appropriate health care agencies; and mater­ nal health and prenatal care Division for Diabetes Translation (DDT) A number of state and territorial ... burden of diabetes is disproportionately borne by American Indians and Alaska Natives, African Americans, Hispanic or Latino Americans, and Asians/Pacific Islanders The devel­ opment of diabetes is...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... Capacity Development Results Framework A strategic and results-oriented approach to learning for capacity development Samuel Otoo, Natalia Agapitova and Joy Behrens June 2009 Abstract The Capacity ... promotes a common and systematic approach to the identification, design, and monitoring and evaluation of learning for capacity development The Framework and associated standardized indicators presented ... strategies and programs at various stages and in various ways (box 1.1) For example, it can be used to plan and design programs at various levels (both stand-alone programs and components of larger...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... FOOTNOTES An exception is Kaplan and Ruback (1995) This contrasts with Kaplan and Ruback (1995) and Abarbanell and Bernard (1995) where prices are compared to values calculated from forecasts of cash ... 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 ... the accounting for anticipated investment and the recognition of non-cash value changes It also compares discounted residual earnings approaches and capitalized earnings approaches under a variety...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 16:06

... reported data study, only originally amended and restated data was ignored was used and Data was collected and analyzed for the six quarters leading up to financial failure of the bankrupt firms and ... data is static and measures only a single point in time Income statement data includes many arbitrary non-cash allocations such as depreciation and amortizations Jang, 2004) required Capital asset ... Traditional Financial Ratio Analysis Ratio Analysis as a Predictor of Bankruptcy Weaknesses of Accrual-Based Ratios Growth Rates and Insolvency Analyzing the Statement of Cash Flows Capital Structure...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:03

... Statistical Association (Chapters and 11) and Journal of Econometrics (Chapter 6) And the project has also been assisted greatly by the contributions of Yoga Affandi, Mutita Akusuwan, Mahid Barakchian, ... incorporate features such as adjustment costs (e.g Kydland and Prescott, 1982, Christiano and Eichenbaum, 199 2a, and Cogley and Nason, 1995); signal extraction and learning (e.g Kydland and Prescott, ... invaluable comments from Manuel Arrelano, Michael Binder, Carlo Favero, Paul Fisher, Clive Granger, David Hendry, Cheng Hsiao, George Kapetanios, Adrian Pagan, Bahram Pesaran, Til Schuermann, James...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:36

... Fink et al Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2010, 5:46 http://www.josr-online.com/content/5/1/46 Page of Table Laboratorial, clinical and radiographic data Parameter Standard approach ... chosen surgical approach and the radiological assessments blinded for the two assessing authors (A. M and M.S.) Reliability for the radiographic examinations was high, with an intra-assessor, intra-class ... one accepts that the muscle enzyme values are meaningful parameters, then this could mean on one hand that the degree of trauma associated with minimally invasive and standard posterior approaches...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... validation gate of size 28 × 28, and so forth It is obvious that with such a large validation gate and a large number of targets, the data association problem is very crucial and needs an efficient ... and Data Association, Academic Press, San Diego, Calif, USA, 1988 [2] S Blackman and R Popoli, Design and Analysis of Modern Tracking Systems, Artech House, Boston, Mass, USA, 1999 [3] J B Pearson ... SPIE, pp 247–258, Orlando, Fla, USA, April 1998 [22] T Kirubarajan and Y Bar-Shalom, “Kalman filter versus IMM estimator: when we need the latter?” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... TDOA, RSS, and AOA measurements (A1 ) All measurement errors, namely, {nTOA,i }, {nTDOA,i }, {nRSS,i }, and {nAOA,i } are sufficiently small and are modeled as zero-mean Gaussian random variables ... the antenna height and antenna gain, and a is the propagation constant Note that the propagation parameter a can be obtained via finding the path loss slope by measurement [22] In free space, a ... introducing an intermediate variable, R1 , which has the form where rAOA = rAOA,1 rAOA,2 · · · rAOA,M nAOA = nAOA,1 nAOA,2 · · · nAOA,M ⎡ −1 ⎢ tan y − y1 x − x1 y − y2 x − x2 ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ tan−1 ⎢ fAOA (x)...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... DC, Bhatia K, Pavithran K, Sharma JB, Vaid AK, Hazarika D: Breast carcinoma with metastasis to the gallbladder: an unusual case report with a short review of literature Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis ... carcinoma: is surgical palliation indicated? J Surg Oncol 1991, 46(3):211-214 45 Manouras A, Lagoudianakis EE, Genetzakis M, Pararas N, Papadima A, Kekis PB: Metastatic breast carcinoma initially presenting ... lobular carcinoma She then developed abdominal pain and diagnostic imaging revealed the gallbladder as a potential source for which she underwent an exploratory laparotomy and a cholecystectomy Pathological...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:22

... echocardiography (TEE) with the gold standards of surgical findings and pathological examination Materials and methods Patients and clinical characteristics Echocardiographic, pathological and surgical ... phased-array transducer All patients underwent standard two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiographic examinations with detailed evaluation of heart function Imaging planes were standardized, and ... the parasternal left heart long-axis view, the aortic and MV short-axis view, and the apical four- and two-chamber views Page of Left atrial (LA) diameter was measured from the parasternal left...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22