application to dsd robotic forceps for minimally invasive surgery

... closed total cystectomy, partial pericystectomy, partial pericystectomy with capitonnage, partial pericystectomy with cavity management (omentoplasty and internal drainage) and partial hepatectomy ... introduced into the cyst cavity as a drain, the course of which was routed with the help of a long Robert forceps passed though the opening into the cyst cavity and then rail-roaded into position ... [9,11,12,14] While, laparoscopic surgery follows all the principles of open surgery it is beneficial to the patient in providing reduced postoperative discomfort, shorter recovery time and reduced...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... is difficult to describe Therefore, I would like to ask for the forgiveness from those whose assistance cannot be appreciated in words and from those who, by any chance, I forgot to mention First ... are tools designed for specified purposes, rather than truth generators Therefore, the validity of an ISM can be considered to be equivalent to the user’s confidence in the model’s usefulness (Forrester ... data for validation are only available to a limited extent? The answers to the research questions mentioned above will lead us to a methodology for the validation of Integrated Systems Models for...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... Melting curve analysis was performed after amplification The reaction mixture was heated to 95 °C for sec, cooled to 50 °C for 15 sec, and then slowly heated back to 95 °C at a ramp rate of 0.2 ... quantitative PCR for Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ is a highly sensitive and rapid tool for its quantification in activated sludge It would be suitable for routine monitoring or measurement ... from activated sludge was diluted to 0.5 ng µL-1 using sterilized distilled water The higher DNA concentration tended to cause difficulty to determine Ct value due to high and unstable baseline of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... e GetMaxtPath(A) / / G e t max path MaxPath[i] for di A is a set of arcs for i = to n begin MaxPath[i] +- NULL e n d for j = to n begin fori=j-ktojlbegin if (di, dj) E A t h e n if Length(MaxPath[j]) ... solution to the problem of information overloading In such a service, gatherer collects articles from Web sites and threader makes threads for them The results are stored in XML, and then pushed to ... kw, kw which is a differentia word for di p r o c e d u r e MakeDistanceMatrix for i= to n b e g i n if i - k < t h e n s + - e l s e s + - - i - k forj =stoi-lbegin a(i,j) +- sim(di,dj) j~-j+l...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... the wordform, OldEnd is the string that has to be removed from the end of the wordform, and NewEnd is the string that has to be concatenated to the beginning of the wordform in order to produce ... training dataset for each class of tags that can be assigned to some word type, according to the lexicon For example, the most frequent tag for politika is Ncfsi, and the most frequent tag for the tag-class ... (which has a short and a long form for singular masculine), and lacks verb infinitive forms It further uses special evidential verb forms to express unwitnessed, retold, and doubtful activities...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... in 1998, making it possible to apply preventing measures according to the predictions of forecast tools Hereto, the forecast tool used is a statistical model that takes the tendencies in the measurements, ... begins to make it possible the meaningful modeling of applications for meso and regional scale problems An information system that includes a dispersion model for inert tracers has been applied for ... steps towards the implementation of a setup of the DYMOS system for simulating and visualizing atmospheric pollution in Santiago have started to be taken In order to apply the system DYMOS to forecast...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... of the Moses toolkit The distortion limit “d“ is set to zero (no reordering) The LM is implemented as a five-gram model using the SRILM-Toolkit (Stolcke, 2002), with Add-1 smoothing for unigrams ... pairs We don’t want to maximize the likelihood of the non-transliteration pairs Instead we want to optimize the transliteration performance for test data Secondly, it is easy to use a large language ... phrase-based MT system for transliteration using the Moses toolkit (Koehn et al., 2003) We also tried using g2p for implementing the transliteration decoder but found Moses to perform better Moses...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... directed towards blockade of inflammatory pathways, is often a healthy volunteer population To develop biomarkers for drugs targeting inflammatory pathways, previous investigators have turned to ex ... purified RNA are not subject to the factors (such as for example, specific binding factors, charged proteins, or rheumatoid factor), which can confound ELISA assays performed in human serum or plasma ... effector function was chosen for development because the therapeutic goal is to block the interaction of IL21 with IL21R, and therefore minimization of effector function is desirable Endotoxin...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... Workforce Alliance In a report to WHO, the Task Force for Scaling Up Education and Training for Health Workers made recommendations for concerted action Five of these recommendations were to: ... need for the international community to develop means for developing countries to acquire the expertise to implement a needsbased approach in HTA [10] The toolkit project was developed to assist ... capacity to carry out such planning and the appropriateness of tools to assess such needs are lacking Moreover, in order for an institutional action plan to be developed, decision-makers need to be...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... not entered into a postoperative recovery program especially designed for minimally invasive surgery patients as they were in the study of Dorr et al [11] Instead, it was decided to examine whether ... was to assemble a non-selected group of patients with as few exclusion criteria as possible and to avoid the exclusion of a number of patients because they wished to undergo minimally invasive surgery ... associated with minimally invasive and standard posterior approaches to the surgery is the same in both cases This could be explained by the fact that although the minimally invasive technique...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... duration for speedup, HMMBD [10], to eukaryotic gene-finding analysis and compare to the metaHMM [27] In further work, we plan to merged the methods to obtain a meta-HMMBD + zde that is projected to ... assumption is an important factor that must be considered to design a robust and reliable network and Pareto distribution could be a suitable choice to model such traffic (Internet applications have found ... derivation to follow, we try to stay consistent with the notation introduced by [28].) An equivalent formulation of the HSMM was introduced in [4] for the Viterbi algorithm and in [5] for Baum-Welch...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... of the most popular ways to estimate mutual information for low-dimensional data space is to use histograms as a pdf estimator Histogram estimators can deliver satisfactory results under low-dimensional ... of mutual information using Renyi’s definition is equivalent to maximizing mutual information defined by Shannon Moreover, MRMI algorithm is subject to the curse of dimensionality [12] To overcome ... Definition of mutual information Mutual information is a nonparametric measure of relevance between two variables Shannon’s information theory provides a suitable formalism for quantifying these...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... equation LTotal i = V bi · ρi S i=1 V bi · ρi (19) The initial values of the load factors LTotal i are LTotal = 0.105 for the service S1 , voice, LTotal i = 0.271 for S2 , data 64 Kbps and LTotal ... equipment for each city, town, rural area, highway, road, and so on Based on this, the mobile operator will have enough information to make the decision about built or buy, and/or to claim to the ... of Eb/No changes for the different services, the propagation coverage study has to be done specifically for each one, and of course for the uplink and the downlink Therefore the formulation explained...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... operator is well defined on Ep For further information about e pluripotential theory and the complex Monge-Amp` re operator we refer to 8, e The convex cone Ep has applications in dynamical systems ... complete this case we need to prove that for all k > we have that kn/ n 1 ≤ kn n 2.14 Let h : 0, ∞ → R be defined by h k kn − kn/ n n − kn/ n 2.15 To obtain 2.14 it is sufficient to prove that h ≥ The ... prove that for all k > it holds that k 2n / n B 2, kn ≤ B 2, n 2.12 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Inequality 2.12 is equivalent to k 2n / n 1 1 ≤ kn kn n n 2.13 Hence, to complete...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... features to generate the shape operators for tracking Since we need to compute the inverse camera projection for every pixel in the range of the shape operator, constructing the shape operator is ... matched to an eye outline or eyebrow in the head tracking problem The operator is designed to achieve good shape detection and localization performance The detection performance is equivalent to the ... computing the fit to the model shape If we try to extract gradient features using an edge detector, some of the boundary edge information may be lost due to thresholding The total edge strength...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... addition k is in class Ꮽ0 (I), then for all x ∈ I k(x,x) ≥ and for all x, y ∈ I |k(x, y)|2 ≤ k(x,x)k(y, y), eigenfunctions φi associated to nonzero eigenvalues are uniformly continuous on I, convergence ... uniform on I, and the operator K is trace class and satisfies the trace formula I k(x,x)dx = i≥1 λi In the case where I is compact, the last statements are the classical theorem of Mercer; for ... statements are the classical theorem of Mercer; for proofs see, for example, [7] for compact I and [2] for noncompact I Finally, it is not difficult to show that continuous positive definite kernels are reproducing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... length, A(2k), for < k M   1, is the PN sequence that is loaded on even subcarriers, and A(2k + 1) = for k M   [1] The samples a(n), for n = 0, 1, , M   1, are assumed to be known to the receiver ... performance, in particular for SUI-2 and SUI-3 channels To further demonstrate the practical utility of the dominant path delay estimation method described here, we performed simulations to find ... symbol of the preamble specified for downlink mode of WMAN-OFDM Our method requires 2M complex multiplications for finding the channel impulse response and a memory to store samples of two received...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... a frequency shift δi for radar i To minimize the interference from one waveform to the other, optimal values for δi should be determined to have the waveforms orthogonal to each other, that is, ... (e.g., Barker sequence) are much easier to study than that of two analog radar waveforms In [9], CF waveform design was applied to RSN with application to ATR without any delay-Doppler uncertainty ... ambiguities in both range and Doppler for a given waveform [10] For a single radar, the matched filter for waveform x(t) is x∗ (−t), and the ambiguity function of LFM waveform is [10] A τ, FD = = T/2 −T/2+τ...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... is seen to be fairly robust with respect to these parameters.) To make this a complete algorithm, we need initialization To start the algorithm, at t = 0, we need to initialize motion To get S0 ... direction detector for various video applications in Section OBJECT TRACKER: AN APPLICATION OF THE MOTION DIRECTION DETECTOR Tracking a moving object in a video is an important application of ... 1, for all i, j, k (2) Calculate St+1 (i, j, k), for all i, j, k using (6) (3) Update FBt+1 (i, j, k), for all i, j, k using (8) (4) Calculate St+1 (i, j, k), for all i, j, k using (10) (5) For...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... occupancy probability is uniform to ensure invariance to global translations of face images In the next section, we derive efficient formulas to compute P(ᏲT |ᏲQ , ᏹ) and to train automatically all the ... variability For instance, each HMM face has to model variations due to facial expressions Therefore, to train the mixture of Gaussians that would correspond to the mouth, one should provide for each ... local transformation selection for all image regions and the optimal solution must therefore involve a global decision To combine the local transformation and consistency costs, we propose to embed...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20