aetiology classification biomechanics and the failure of bone

... Bush, and Barack Obama and on those they chose to serve in their cabinets and in the Executive Office in the White House and to run regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve and the Securities ... leveraged (the ratio of the loan to the true value of the asset is very high) But the belief that the price of the bubble asset will rise even further leads to even laxer lending standards, magnifying ... branch to the supervision of c the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).7 The Three I’s—­deology, interests, and institutions—­ re imi a pediments to successful policy making and government...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:44

... limit on the supply of the tranches that were most in demand the AAA tranches—because the starting points of the rating models were predictions of the rate of default on the entire pool Had the rating ... concerned about the default risk of the banks as they were about the default risk of Fannie and Freddie As we discuss toward the end of the chapter (when we consider the ‘‘too big to fail’’ theory as ... with the analyses then on offer At the time, there were (understandably) only hypotheses that lacked evidence, and many of them, while equally plausible, contradicted each other Additionally, there...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 16:26

... below the CEO—both to expand their knowledge of the company and CEO succession candidates, and to increase other top-level executives’ exposure to the thinking of the board and the board process The ... final responsibility for the functioning of the firm Most important, it sets the rules of the game for the CEO The job of the board is to hire, fire, and compensate the CEO, and to provide high-level ... Chairman of the Board It is common in U.S corporations for the CEO also to hold the position of Chairman of the Board The function of the Chairman is to run board meetings and oversee the process of...

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33

... by changing the types and thresholds of these variables in order to find the best regression model to predict the early femoral failures The final regression model determined whether these five ... collected the data, and drafted the manuscript FL designed this study, analyzed the data, performed statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript All of the authors read and approved the final ... 3) The correlation between the predicted failure based on our multivariable logistic regression model and the explanatory variables of Tscore and body mass index demonstrated that the femoral failure...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... report was prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) This research was conducted under the auspices of the Forces and Resources Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research ... funded research and development center sponsored by the OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence ... of how the racial and ethnic distribution of officers Officer Classification and the Future of Diversity Among Senior Military Leaders Figure 1.1 Racial/Ethnic Distribution in the Enlisted, Officer,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... interfering with the reaction between the endotoxins and the LAL As a consequence, the suitability of the regents and materials used and the product itself has to be established The endotoxin limit ... of micro-organisms is obtained after incubation in presence of blood and the ATMP, the product possesses no antimicrobial activity under the conditions of the test, and the sterility may be then ... and coordination All the authors read and approved the final manuscript References Regulation (EC) No 1394/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on advanced therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... in the literature pertaining to the use of bone cements in the context of osteolytic cysts in knee arthroplasty, however these analogues have been successfully used in the treatment of benign bone ... operated the patient and is the senior author HA managed the patient and wrote the manuscript VR assisted with the literature review and manuscript preparation All authors have read and approved the ... image of the left knee showing the introducing cannula and simultaneous venting of the medial tibial condylar cyst Discussion When dealing with massive periprosthetic osteolysis the aims of surgery...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... principally on the significance of these findings in the context of our current understanding of BMP receptor biology, and relate the data to our knowledge of inheritance patterns and disease pathophysiology ... includes the three mammalian TGF-β isoforms, the activins and inhibins, and over 30 members of the BMP subfamily [7,8] Unlike the mammalian TGF-β isoforms, BMPs are secreted in an active form and, ... conditions Other structural studies indicate that the plexiform lesions of PPH are composed of monoclonal foci of proliferating endothelial cells [31], and microdissection of endothelial cells from these...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... used to compare the effect of ET on the duration of weaning and on the total duration of MV Variables were included in the final models if they were associated with the duration of weaning or MV ... between ET and duration of weaning and the total duration of MV The 21 patients in the ET group were demographically similar to the 53 patients in the ST group, except for the greater number of patients ... performed by the open surgical technique in the operating room and there were no deaths attributable to the procedure It is not clear whether the safety of the percutaneous approach should alter the decision...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... disorder Like the pervasive effects of culture, distortion of consciousness lies at the heart of both the individual experience of mental disorder and the effect of it on the embedding of the individual ... or the other of the teams, or separate counts of the number of bounce and areal passes During the game, a figure in a full gorilla suit appears, faces the camera, beats its breast, and walks off ... [11] Invoking the spirit of the Shannon-McMillan Theorem, essentially the zero-error limit of the Rate Distortion Theorem discussed in the Mathematical Appendix, allows definition of an adiabatically,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... of the body and the smooth flow of the meridians It pointed out by the balance of the bioelectric properties, according to the rule Yin- Yang balance of the Yin-Yang theory 4.2 THE CHANGING OF ... cure This shows the awareness of the ancients about the appearance of the disease and acupuncture have effects to harmonize Qi and Xue, reset balance of Yin and Yang is correct and there is a scientific ... suitable for the treatment of LBP kidney failure type - The effect of EA in the treatment of LBP kidney failure type on clinical: To confirm the effect of electro acupuncture in the treatment of LBP...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2014, 13:22

... element in the Enron and the other recent accounting scandals was not a major flaw in the standards themselves, but primarily a failure either of the company to comply with the standards or of the regulator ... short years ago, the American system of corporate disclosure the combination of accounting and auditing standards, the professionalism of auditors, and the rules and practices of corporate governance ... enacting most of them, and others, in the Corporate Responsibility Act of 2002 Policymakers were not the only ones to take quick action in the wake of the scandals The major stock exchanges the New...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:15

... understanding this transformation, and mapping the contours of these emerging practices of governing in the context of failure? In other words, how we study the how of global governance? One of the ... of the 1990s, including the Mexican and Asian financial crises and the recognition of a failed decade of aid to sub-Saharan Africa, were viewed as signs of profound failure in the governance of ... and concerns – such as the political sources of policy failure, and the problem of risk and contingency – became the subject of intense intellectual and practical preoccupation The products of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 12:37

... supervisors Prof Teoh Swee-Hin and A/Prof Jerry Chan I would like to thank them for their constant sharing of knowledge and ideas, their patience and understanding, and the many hours they have each ... surrounds the outside of bone except at areas covered by the articulating cartilage, and the endosteum lines the inner bone surface within the marrow 17 Examination of the anatomy of bone also ... bulk of the tensile yield strength and plays an important in the storage of various ions The mineral salts of bone comprises of largely of calcium and phosphorus (Downey and Siegel 2006) The organic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:16

... (cancellous) bone Cortical bone forms the dense outer shell of most bones and it accounts for 80% of the total bone mass Cortical bone is mostly found in the shaft portion of long bones and the outer ... to the long axis of the collagen fibres In the body, woven and lamellar bones are structurally organized into trabecular and cortical bone Bone comprises of several components They are the bone ... tissue in the human body for the treatment of critical size bone defects Despite the use of autografts, allografts and synthetic grafts, there is still a great demand for bone grafts Bone tissue...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:52

... tissue engineering, the hypotheses of this study, and the scope/ structure of this thesis The literature review (Chapter II) of this thesis covers the tendon anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, injury ... muscle, the grouping of gastrocnemius, the soleus, and the plantaris muscle to the calcaneus bone As organs, tendons consist of three parts: the muscle attachment region, the substance of the tendon ... measure of the energy that is lost during the loading-unloading test of the tendon; it therefore is an indication of the viscous properties of the tissue (Butler 1978) The mechanical properties of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/09/2015, 17:18

... the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role of the press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism and the role of the press in the formation of the concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning of the New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning of the end of the New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature of the South African...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief of the ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result of the crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy and the rise of new aspirations for democracy and the self-determination of peoples The ... testimony both to the warlike character of the Greeks and to their feeling of cultural unity, the cities of the Amphictyonic League of Delphi agreed that, in the event of war, the combatant states...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02

... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... affected by the creation and use of fiat-money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus of the theory, however,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33

... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK and the US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level of the variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... to offset the macro economic effects of the collapse of the bubble).2 Of course, it is by no means clear that central banks are better able to judge the appropriate level of asset prices and the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40