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... involved in 22% of cases, the thoracic spine in 34%, the lumbar spine in 31%, and the sacrum in 13% Bertoni et al [3] reviewed 15 cases of the solid variant of aneurysmal bone cyst The authors reported ... palpation of the spinous processes of the mid -thoracic spine No motor or sensory deficits were observed There were no signs of myelopathy A rectal examination showed good volitional rectal tone and ... illustration of the manuscript AA analyzed and interpreted the pathological data for our patient WEW aided in the editing of the manuscript DJC aided in the editing of the manuscript TGL aided in the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... vasorum of the aortic wall [20] Atherosclerosis leads to the thickening of the intima layer of the vases Thickness of the intima increases the distance between the endothelial layer and the media, ... intramural haematoma of the thoracic aorta taking in consideration its location, the clinThepresentation and treatment diameter The possible ways of treatment of the intramural haematoma of the thoracic ... intramural haematoma? The presence of several layers of smooth muscle implies that the vessels of the vasa vasorum actively regulate their own tone rather than serving as a passive channel for the blood...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... weight loss over the course of the preceding three months A physical examination showed of weakness of the left upper extremity but no other abnormalities He underwent CT of the chest, which ... time The use of spinal markers also limits the possibility of human error during the matching process, such as matching to the wrong vertebral body, which can occur when using other forms of IGRT ... sharp fall-off from the treatment dose of 74 Gy (red) to the approximate spinal cord tolerance dose of 50 Gy (purple) The volume of lung receiving 20 Gy was 17% The treatment plan, including lung,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... explain the diagram in Figure 1-11, let's walk through the flow of the call: I pick up the phone and send an off-hook indication to the end office switch The switch sends back a dial tone I dial the ... Some of the benefits of moving to an SS7 network are as follows: • Reduced post-dialing delay There is no need to transmit DTMF tones on each hop of the PSTN The SS7 network transmits all the ... to carry these features from end to end in the PSTN The following list includes a few of the popular custom calling features commonly found in the PSTN today: • • • Call waiting—Notifies customers...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 05:20

... during the x 60" other interval of the electrical position [ 11 Only two phases are then supplied in the same time and the torque can be estimated to: Figure Rotor fluxes in the stator phases and their ... io = , the expression of the torque of the motor will be nearly the same as the expression for a sinusoidal drive: T, = p.@',(0) i, (10) With these new variables, the electromagnetic torque is ... look at the d and q components of the current, we see that the variations of the phases currents are linked to the variations of the id currcnt However, the id current don't produce torque, only...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:50

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... 145 (48.82) *The sum of the subjects in each genotype may not add up to the total number of subjects due to missing genotyping data Missing genotyping is due to a variable number of samples for ... advantage of this method as opposed to only rejection or not of hypotheses, is that it is not needed to determine the level of the test in advance This study reported adjusted p-values Then, we ... significance of interaction terms of individual SNP and pollutant The current version of MTP allows one to identify the significance of a group of candidate variables to reduce the false discovery rate...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... attributes considered, and the vectors of coefficients to n are attached to the vector of attributes (Z) The assumptions about the distribution of error terms implicit in the use of the CLM impose a particular ... the number of household specific characteristics employed to explain the choice of the wastewater treatment programme alternative, and the vector of coefficients to l are attached to the vector ... of the public‟s preferences with respect to improvements to the STPs and hence to the quality of the water in the Ganga 11 The choice experiment survey was administered to be representative of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... The other metric, S, is defined as the ratio of the number of nodes in the giant connected component divided by the total number of nodes One might notice the different characteristics of the two ... snapshots of the real Internet topology.1 On the other hand, [42], [43] have shown that the clustering coefficient of the Internet has been growing and that the average diameter of the Internet ... nodes connected to the most popular node The diameter from the most popular node to others is one and the diameter between any two nodes except the most popular node is two, therefore the average...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... of May The specifics of their strategies and the relative size of their trading activities dictated the extent to which this had an impact on the rest of the market We note that even within the ... for the 500 stocks comprising the S&P 500 Index To account for the wide range of price levels among these 500 stocks, shares of each were standardized to a split-adjusted price of $50 at the ... have started in stocks underlying the E-Mini and SPY, thereby affecting their prices, we compared the order books of the E-Mini and SPY to that of a basket of large-cap stocks To so, an aggregate...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... and monitor their technologies long after they’ve left the factory—or to let them bring us, the users, to them, as more and more of our activities shift away from our own devices and into the Internet’s ... back The early models of commercial (as compared to academic) computing assumed that the vendor of the machinery would provide most or all of its programming The PC of the 1980s the parent of today’s ... like Tom Jennings in the sense that they undertook their work for the innate interest of it, but professionals in the sense that they could devote themselves full time to its development They...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... Symptoms of local spread Into nasal cavity: Unilateral epistaxis Into orbit: Ocular dysfunction, proptosis, diplopia Into oral cavity: Pain/loosening of upper teeth; “dentures don’t fit” Into ... Paranasal sinuses: 3% of HNC Salivary glands Nir Harish, HMS III Agenda Meet the patient: Mr R Common signs/symptoms of sinus disease Radiological Menu of Tests Normal anatomy Differential diagnosis ... HMS III Radiologic Menu of Tests CT: Modality of choice MRI: Complementary X-Ray Nir Harish, HMS III Radiologic Menu of Tests: CT CT: Modality of Choice #1 for both inflammatory and neoplastic processes...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... have the following factors: • the context in which the word or phrase is placed • the content and topic to which the word or phrase is related • the emotion and/or sense of the speaker • the other ... 20% of the workers produce 80% of the result • 20% of the customers create 80% of the revenue • And on and on… Ho Quoc Vuong - 1020278 Page Sumary of “5 Steps to Speak a Language” In fact, the ... process To express an idea verbally, the speaker has to coordinate various parts of his body from the brain to the tongue, the mouth, the lips, the breath and so on You may not be aware of this...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 07:20

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... area of the drive where the data is held and the transistors assigned to the data will either allow the current to pass through or not, providing a string of 1s and 0s (binary data) which is then ... current to pass through To ‘write’ a 0, voltage is applied to one piece of silicone in the transistor called the control gate This starts a process that causes another piece of silicone called the ... are able to read and write data at up to 750MB/s (that’s almost times the speed of a high-performance mainstream drive) and reach capacities of up to 1TB Of course, these drives are of the sort...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 17:28

... are they available to care for the elderly as they did in the past.4,5 Other factors reducing the household’s ability to provide care for the elderly include the migration of young people and the ... University of Lesotho established a multidisciplinary research group to study the effects of the new pension on the lives of the recipients All Faculties were involved in the study The Faculty of Health ... and places of residence were obtained from the Pensions office of the Ministry of Finance in Maseru which is the capital town in the country Ten subareas across the Manonyane electoral district...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... broad but self-tolerant defense The mechanism of this defense depends on the receptor subtype, the cell on which the receptor is expressed, and the receptor’s response to the binding of its cognate ... Anhidrosis, lack of sweating 3.1 Anatomy of the Autonomic Nervous System The autonomic nervous system has two major functional parts – the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems The parasympathetic system ... by the sympathetic nervous system Sympathetic preganglionic neurons that regulate effector cells in the skin originate in the lateral cell columns of the thoracic spinal cord They project to the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... component B of the humanitarian affairs programme of work, better reflecting the relationship of this work to the other components of the programme OIOS is also of the view that the ISDR secretariat ... submission of evidence to OIOS of the staff resources allocated to the development of partnerships with the private sector 44 The Management of the ISDR secretariat accepted recommendation and agreed to ... recommending the inclusion of a reference to the work of the United Nations in disaster risk reduction within the sustainable development programme of the United Nations 17 The Management of the ISDR...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... supported by the 2678 structurally rigid b-sandwich framework of the paired variable domains of the light and heavy chains These CDRs come together at the tips of the Y-shaped molecule to form a ... bound at the bottom of the cleft that harbours biliverdin IXc in the BBP [24] Thus, while the overall topology of the lipocalin, comprising the b-barrel with the a-helix attached to it, remained ... essentially tolerate the entire set of natural side chains Apart from these fundamental insights into the structure–function relationships of lipocalins and their similarity to immunoglobulins, the resulting...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20