animal models for the evaluation of tissue engineering constructs

... In the rightmost part of the figure, peers are distributed around the set of models, closely surrounding them, receiving a high JACK value A Case of Study In order to test the behaviour of our evaluation ... framework Even if the test is very limited by the number of topics, it confirms the potential of the framework, with the highest KING metric combination doubling the performance of the best ROUGE ... to this formula, the quality of a metric set X is the probability that the quality of a model is higher than the quality of a peer according to this metric set This formula satisfies all formal...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 05:20

... g, for approximately half of the points (those laying in the B region), while the distance is between and h for the other half of the points (those in A) Therefore, if m is large enough, the ... ∪ B Approximately half of the points drawn from C will lie in the A square, while the other half will lie in the B square The distance of the points drawn from C from the points drawn from B ... between and h, the length of the diagonal of the rectangle which is the union of A and B Instead of drawing pairs we can draw triples of points, one point from A, one from B, and another point from...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 00:20

... rater versus the mean value of the other raters and the mean of the raters versus the speech recognition system The correlation is negative for the latter because the scales for the evaluations ... treatment for oral cancer As a precondition for the evaluation of the patient groups, the extent of disorder is widespread, as seen by the results of the perceptual assessment and the ASR results The ... in the control group (P < 001) Inter-rater correlations were computed for each of the raters using the respective other raters as reference, that is, the mean of the four other raters for the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... composition of the food determines the length of time before the IDMC pattern returns Dogs fed milk develop the fed pattern for 2.5 to hours The type of nutrient is important in that the isocaloric ... During the early scanning period, the B-mode was used for locating the optimal bowel loop, and then the mode was switched to the pulsed Doppler mode The sample volume cursor was located in the small ... through the acoustic window of the spleen The number of peristaltic contractions was recorded three times over a one-minute time period and the average number of contraction was then calculated The...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:23

... a ratio of the respective sizes The rest of the parameters were described as percentage positive out of the total number of lymph nodes examined Statistical analysis and calculation of ‘p values’ ... (11/14) and none of them showed internal echoes within the lymph node This could be attributed to the fleshy nature of these nodes and absence of either calcification or necrosis within them [8] Ultrasonography ... multiple coarse high-echo spots located focally either in the central or peripheral area of the node The shape of the lymph node was assessed by the L/S (long axis/short axis) ratio An L/S ratio...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... methods for studying the ST are pivotal The use of computerized or digital image analysis (DIA) has greatly facilitated the evaluation of ST The major advantage of DIA is standardization of image ... out of the 10 patients in the prednisolone group responded versus none of the nine patients in the placebo group To determine whether the same observer identified the same differences in the ... lymphocytes four of the 10 patients in the prednisolone group responded versus none of the nine patients in the placebo group; for CD38+ plasma cells four of the 10 patients in the prednisolone...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23

... the simulation The analytical models of Verrier et al [14] and Chevalet [3] will then be described, each corresponding to a different choice of hypotheses for the algebraic formalization of the ... used for the MC simulations 4.1 Effect of number of loci Table I presents the values of RV[30] provided by the three models when ] [30 decreasing the number of loci L (with multiallelic loci in the ... that under the hypothesis of a very large number of independent identical loci, the oligogenic model and the Gaussian theory agree closely These first results validate the use of the ’full-finite’...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... users of the results and responsible for getting the research findings into practice Therefore, we asked respondents for their opinions about the feasibility of DCE In particular, we asked for the ... letter to explain the background and aim of the study, and signed by the chair of the Dutch Society for Surgical Oncology The distribution of questionnaires, including the informative letters, ... tasks, and the mean score on the difficulty scale The answers to the open question about the appropriateness of DCE were classified The questionnaire was pilot-tested beforehand The aim of the pilot...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... objectives of the EwQI are given in Table 1, and the criteria for the selection of the projects in Table The immediate inspiration for the EwQI came from Leatherman and Sutherland's book 'The Quest for ... undertake the external evaluation of the initiative as a whole (which included support for the selfevaluations of each project) This paper describes the development of the protocol for the external evaluation ... the evaluation was to start at the same time as the projects, the evaluation protocol had to be written with very limited knowledge of six projects, and none at all of the other two On the other...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... users of the results and responsible for getting the research findings into practice Therefore, we asked respondents for their opinions about the feasibility of DCE In particular, we asked for the ... letter to explain the background and aim of the study, and signed by the chair of the Dutch Society for Surgical Oncology The distribution of questionnaires, including the informative letters, ... tasks, and the mean score on the difficulty scale The answers to the open question about the appropriateness of DCE were classified The questionnaire was pilot-tested beforehand The aim of the pilot...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... However, the role of biomarkers in the evaluation of patients in the ICU setting remains largely unexplored Because hemodynamic monitoring is a frequent theme in the evaluation of patients in the ... predictors of death in the ICU, NT-proBNP was superior to BNP and Figure the ICU Concentrations of NT-proBNP as a function of survival versus death in the ICU The line refers to the median, whereas the ... performed using SPSS software (SPSS Institute Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) Results The baseline characteristics of the study group are shown in Table Approximately half of the patients had shock of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... Comparison of animal models for the study of retroviral infection The identification of HIV-1 as the causative agent of AIDS was followed only a year later by the recruitment of chimpanzees for the ... development over the past 30 years The bottom half of the timeline denotes the emergence of key humanized mouse models The top half of the timeline denotes the application of the models to HIV-1 ... model Here, we focus on the development of each of these models for the study of human retroviral infection, i.e., with HIV-1 and HTLV-1 The comparison of all of these models in historical context,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

... sire models to simulate the bivariate data, these models varying in the nature of the simulated residual effects We refer to the model used to simulate the data as the true model These three models ... ordering of the genetic evaluations of the sires for GL and BW [17] Comparisons were also made between rank orders of the top 100 selection candidates from 1,929 animals in the pedigree file for the ... residuals, all the fitted models performed equally well The difference in PLL between the fitted models with heavy-tails and the normal model was inversely related to the degrees of freedom of the simulated...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... major disadvantages are the need for access to two sides of the member and lack of information of the location of an apparent anomaly with respect to the depth of the member These deficiencies can ... by the hardness methods because of the relatively low cost of these methods 2.3.1.3 The Schmidt Rebound Hammer is the most commonly used apparatus for measuring the hardness of concrete by the ... account for the effect of reinforcement on the strength of the specimen Examination of the core failure pattern will help determine if the bar has significantly affected strength Embedded reinforcement...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 22:11

... IL-13) These mediators can profoundly affect the permeability of the vascular endothelium, allowing the migration of circulating immune cells to migrate through the endothelium into the site of inflammation ... pathway, normally reserved for endogenous antigens DCs can be found in the upper layers of the epithelium and lamina propria of the airways These DCs are at an immature state Therefore, at steady state, ... 1.1 Overview of the immune responses involved in allergic asthma The protease activity of the allergen allows the allergen to penetrate through the epithelium Activation of PRRs on the dendritic...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 21:56

... of In-Situ Diagnosis Methods for the Evaluation of Mechanical and Magnetic Performance of Hard Disk Drives ZHU JIN （B.Eng (hons) HUST, P.R.China） A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ... recession of the read/write transducers from slider surface Here, flying height refers to the spacing between the mean plate of the disk surface profile and the mean plate of the slider surface profile ... speed of 7200 RPM, the velocity of the 28 disk is reduced from nominal 7200 RPM and the rate of change of the signal produced by the MR transducer is monitored As shown in Figure 2.8, the slope of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 22:15

... tool in tissue engineering The presence of collagen fibrils in tissue constructs is essential in maintaining the mechanical strength and defining the shape and form of the tissues Unfortunately, ... responsible for the hydroxylation of this imino acid The presence of hydroxyproline at this specific position appears to favor a specific conformation of the imino acid necessary for the packing of the ... establishment of the cell enumeration assay, the second is related to the enhancement of the collagen matrix on the fibroblast culture, and the third is related to the exploration of the collagen...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:07

... calculate ␶ from the MR jet is ␶ ϭ time interval between the point of ϪdP/dtmin to the point at which the MR velocity ϭ (1/e)1/2 of the MR velocity at the time of ϪdP/dtmin Given the presence of more ... central role in the evaluation of LV diastolic function over the past two decades The purposes of this document is to provide a comprehensive review of the techniques and the significance of diastolic ... present when the slope is Ͼ0.20 mm Hg/mL.7 On the other hand, it is possible to characterize LV chamber stiffness over the duration of diastole by the slope of the exponential fit to the diastolic...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2016, 13:07

... Preface This thesis is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate Program in Bioengineering at the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Professor Lee ... approach The aim of the present thesis was to investigate the use of PCL films as scaffolds in layered tissue engineering, using the blood vessel as a model The scope covers the engineering of microthin ... demonstrate the formation of a confluent EC layer in vivo and evidence of tissue ingrowth and vitalisation of the construct (Greisler 1985; Greisler 1987) However, the extent of tissue formation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:49