... treat- ment method of late hip joint infections. Hip spacers maintain stability of the joint and length of the limb during treatment period. However, as the material strength of bone cement (PMMA) ... ISO 7206-4. Determination of endurance properties of stemmed femoral components with application of torsion. ISO. 1989. 19. Viceconti M, Casali M, Massari B, Cristofolini L, Bassini S, Toni ... be used for the creation of finite element models of the femur. J Biomech. 1996; 29: 1241. 20. Cristofolini L, Viceconti M, Cappello A, Toni A. Mechanical Validation of Whole Bone Composite...
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FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR OF FIBRE REINFORCED BITUMINOUS MIXTURES FROM INDIRECT TENSILE FATIGUE TEST
... Institution, (1993), “Draft for Standard Development for Determination of the Indirect Tensile Stiffness Modulus of Bituminous Mixes DD213”, London. FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR OF FIBRE REINFORCED ... keying in values of S bit volume of binder and volume of aggregate. Sbit was also determined from the first part of the BANDS program based on the penetration index and softening point. These ... Resurfacing", Proceedings of the Association of Paving Technologists, Vol.29, pp. 43-80. 8. Hetenyi, M., (1946), “Beam on Elastic Foundations”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 9. Read,...
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Mechanical behaviour of PEM fuel cell catalyst layers during regular cell operation
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the behaviour of interest rates
... of Money Copyright 2011 Pearson Canada Inc. 5 - 10 Shifts in the Supply of Bonds I ã Expected profitability of investment opportunities - in an expansion, the supply curve shifts to the ... higher level of income. ã Price-Level effect of an increase in the money supply is a rise in interest rates in response to the rise in the price level. ã The expected-inflation effect of an increase ... - 23 Shifts in the Supply of Money I ã Assume that the supply of money is controlled by the central bank. ã An increase in the money supply engineered by the Bank of Canada will shift the supply...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Steady-state kinetic behaviour of functioning-dependent structures docx
... that the occur- rence of terms representative of the assembly and disassembly of FDSs in the classical expression of the density of entropy production are character- istic of living systems. Abbreviation FDS, ... over a wide range of low values of s 1 has a relatively constant and high rate of consumption of S 1 but that with higher values of s 1 drops rapidly to a constant and low rate of con- sumption. ... concentration, s 1 ,ofS 1 , the absolute values (positive) of the steady-state rate of transforma- tion of S 1 into S 3 is calculated as corresponding to both the rate of consumption of S 1 , v(s 1 ),...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: A Raman optical activity study of rheomorphism in caseins, synucleins and tau New insight into the structure and behaviour of natively unfolded proteins pot
... which prevented the acquisition of ROA data of sufđcient quality for reliable analysis. A ROA spectrum of rather poor quality of an imp ure commercial s ample of a-casein (composition u ndeđned) ... function of these proteins. Although disorder of the PPII type may be an essential r equirement for the formation of r egular ®brils [22], our results s uggest that the presence of a large amount of ... human versions of synucleins, together w ith the A30P and A53T mutants of a-synuclein that cause f amilial c ases of Parkinson's disease. Unfortunately the quality of s ome of these syn uclein...
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Walking behaviour of healthy elderly: attention should be paid potx
... executive functions. The core of the procedures is reaction time tasks of low complexity allowing the evaluation of very specific deficiencies. The tasks consist of simple and easily distinguishable ... the age-related defi- cits in specific compone nts of executive function and most of these studies were based on a traditional set of tests of executive function, without detailing specific components. ... (MMSE), medication use, and years of education, were constructed to examine the associat ion of the main outcome (relative DTC of walking) with the EF comp . The contribution of each variable to the regression...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khóa học: Damped oscillatory hysteretic behaviour of butyrylcholinesterase with benzoylcholine as substrate potx
... structure on the hysteresis of BuChE-catalyzed hydrolysis of BzCh, we varied the concentration and pH of the phosphate buffer salts and monitored the hysteretic behaviour of the wild- type enzyme ... the structure of water in the hydration shell of the enzyme active surface. This indicates that the hysteretic behaviour of BuChE with BzCh is not sensitive to changes in the chemical potential of the ... oscillations are not related to a pH-dependent Hofmeister effect of phosphate ions. Simulation and theoretical analysis of the oscillatory behaviour of the approach to the steady-state for BuChE led...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20
Mechanical behaviour of human epidermal and dermal layers in vivo pdf
... mechanical behaviour of the top layer and the deeper layers of the skin in a non-invasive manner. The aim of this thesis is to gain a better understanding in the mechanical behaviour of the skin ... the mechanical behaviour of different skin layers. To put it differently, a large diameter of the suction aperture reflects the behaviour of mainly dermis, whereas a ver y small diameter reflects the behaviour ... non- linear mechanical behaviour of this layer. 4 Chapter 1 Figure 1.2: Schematic view of the cross-section of the upper part of the human skin showing the epidermis and part of the dermis. The...
Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20
Mechanical behaviour of engineering materials
... micrograph of the microstructure of alu- minium oxide (Al 2 O 3 ). The horizontal scale bar has a length of 1 àm. Courtesy of CeramTec ag, Plochingen, Germany O Si Fig. 1.20. Amorphous structure of a ... of one single crystal with long-range order, but rather of several crystalline regions called crystallites or grains. They have a diameter of the order of a few micrometres up to a fraction of ... deformability of these ceramics. The binding energy of the covalent bond is typically about 1 eV per bond, but reaches a value of 1.85 eV in diamond. Due to the smaller number of near- est neighbours,...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:13
Báo cáo " Diffusion behaviour of corrosive solution environments in carbon black filled modified polyethylene linings " doc
... the significance of carbon loading on diffusion behaviour is minor in comparison with those of temperature. The effect of carbon black constituent on mechanism of penetration of water into the ... of the diffusion behaviour of water and corrosive solution environment in a carbon black filled modified polyethylene using for lining application has shown the predominant role of nature of ... illustrated influence of carbon black loading on diffusion behaviour of water into the polymers. As seen in Table 2, an increase of carbon black loading leads to an increase of M ∞ and D. However,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Thermal behaviour of cubic phases rich in 1-monooleoyl-rac-glycerol in the ternary system docx
... two-phase area of water/Pn3m.The effect of OG and DM on the phase behaviour of the MO- system can be explained by a consideration of the effective packing parameter, resulting upon addition of the sugar surfactant. ... and from the order of occurrence of the phases formed. The reason for this change in the curvature can be understood in terms of a simple geometric considera- tion of the shape of the molecules ... result of the exposure to X-rays, but rather a result of the presence of water which leads to hydrolysis of MO [14]. Results Cubic phases Cubic liquid crystalline phases with a number of different structures...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Proteomic characterization of lipid raft proteins in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mouse spinal cord pot
... analy- sis to profile alterations of lipid raft- associated proteins in the spinal cord of the G93A SOD1 transgenic mouse model of ALS. Alterations of a consortium of 67 lipid raft- associated proteins ... effective enrichment of lipid raft proteins using the centrifugation protocol. Proteomic analysis of mouse spinal cord lipid rafts To identify proteins in lipid rafts, purified lipid raft fractions ... analyses of the lipid raft sample isolated from the same mouse; and (b) the protein was consistently identified in the independent Fig. 1. Evaluation of the isolation of lipid raft proteins. Lipid raft proteins...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR OF THE ELDERLY: BETWEEN NEEDS AND REALITY - A COMPARATIVE STUDY – doc
... (2006): Country profile: Romania. Available at: valuable resources and examples of best practice in the area of the perception of health information. The quality and quantity of health information ... number of private practices which are well-equipped and offer a higher level of health care. Private health insurance has developed slowly. Because of low public funding, about 36 percent of the ... Taking account of the variety of approaches observable in European countries, the idea has arisen of starting a multinational project to develop new solutions to the problem of implementing...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Simulating the Behaviour of Older versus Younger Users when Interacting with Spoken Dialogue Systems" pdf
... older people’s behaviour. Furthermore, our results show that these metrics can be a good predictor of the behaviour of different types of users, which provides evidence for the validity of current ... populations. This is presumably due to the lack of corpora for different types of users. In this paper we focus on the behaviour of older vs. younger adults. Most of the work to date on di- alogue systems ... people. The actions of the younger people are a subset of the actions of the older people. We built n-grams of system and user actions with n varying from 2 to 5. Given a history of system and user...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 00:20
pvt and phase behaviour of petroleum reservoir fluids - ali danesh
... be composed of many thousands of compounds, the phase behaviour fundamentals can be explained by examining the behaviour of pure and simple multicomponent mixtures. The behaviour of all real ... interstitial form. The influence of water on the phase behaviour and properties of hydrocarbon fluids in most cases is of a minor consideration. The phase behaviour of oil and gas, therefore, is ... = initial number of moles number of moles of gas produced molecular weight of gas at equilibrium with condensate mole fraction of component i in condensate mole fraction of component i in...
Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 16:07
Ripening and postharvest behaviour of fruits of two hylocereus species (cactaceae)
Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 08:42