... integration between the neo-cartilage and the surrounding host articular cartilage tissue A critical feature ofthe technology is the use of a gel carrier for the seeded cells to perfuse into the threedimensional ... details on the fabrication protocol ofthe tissueengineered cartilage graft For example, the exact cell density per volume ofthe construct was not given, and neither were details ofthe pre-surgery ... distribution, and loss of cells into the joint cavity [15,16], resulting in repetition of surgery in up to 25% to 36% of patients [12,17] improvement (P < 0.05) in the evaluated scores and histologically...
... can dosage ofthe drug be titrated to achieve maximal local effects without the risk of systemic complications? What is the adequate duration of this therapy? Does the underlying cause of ALI make ... ‘standard’ care has to be defined in detail in such situations, and rigorous control of physiological variables as well as therapeutic modalities is ofthe outmost importance [9] The use oftreatment ... Suter The translation of a potentially beneficial effect of inhaled heparin in experimental models of ALI toclinical practice has not yet been achieved; important additional work remains to be...
... the major role ofthe MMP family is the control of cellular responses critical to homeostatic regulation ofthe extracellular environment and the immune response [19,20] We decided to apply protease ... meprin) and then into supersets of level match-sets (higher-level match-sets) (Fig 1) The four level match-sets are the reference gels ofthe respective quadrants from the 2D gel sections of each ... condition and thereafter to reference gels common to both conditions The stepwise annotation of protein spots to two independent levels of reference gels allowed for detection of unique spots in the final...
... anaerobic growth on either ofthe electron acceptors U(VI) and Se(VI) is due tothe decaheme cytochromes c not recognizing either of these electron acceptors, we probed the relative affinities ... acceptor These results therefore provide evidence that there are differences between the electron transfer pathways towards chelated Fe(III) on the one hand and either U(VI) or Se(VI) on the other ... slightly, the affinity of OmcB for its metal substrate However, the curves totally refute the reverse possibility, i.e that OmcB is needed to get functional OmcA On the other hand, the derived...
... boundaries, off tothe syntactic parser The f'n'st task is to find the prosodic constituents, i.e to find where the syllables are, where the feet ~ are, and where the prosodic words are The particular ... number of clitics which are suffixes as far as the phonology is concerned (i.e., they undergo Vowel Harmony with the word to which they attach) are separate words from the point of view ofthe syntax ... suffixation of an affix to a prescribed prosodic subconstitucnt of a word rather than tothe whole word 2.2 The Non.Isomorphism of Morphophonology and Morphosyntax Another fundamental property of morphology...
... C-terminal pentapeptide ofthe rat and human C-peptides is thought to be critical for bioactivity and for binding ofthe C-peptide to its putative receptor Hence, the role ofthe truncated peptide ... truncated C-peptides lacking the five Table Measured and theoretical masses ofthe pancreatic islet peptides The experimental masses agree well with the theoretical masses ofthe candidate peptides ... peaks were detected from the peptide assumed to be glucagon However, the theoretical mass of glucagon and the measured mass ofthe peptide differ by only 1.8 p.p.m In the ECD experiments, ECD...
... branch required the annotators to fill in the domain description ofthe names in question together with their etymologies if required, while the second asked them to determine the devices of creativity ... concepts After the analysis of these relations according tothe requirements ofthe task, we have decided to use the ones listed in Table together with their description in the second column The third ... subjective ofthe four dimensions, in 27% ofthe cases it is not possible to take a majority decision Nevertheless, in almost 73% ofthe cases the absolute majority ofthe annotators agreed on the annotation...
... oair of sets of situation-types One gives the set of situationtypes ofthe text (written or spoken) st - and can be regarded as representing the Iocutionary aspect ofthe act The other gives the ... as in (6) The situation-type ofthe text at the end o f the utterance ofthe second clause includcs the speaker with die property of having told the guy at the door to watch out and having judged ... f the utterance: thc initial creation ofthe situation-type (the first clause), the interpretation of but and the modification ofthe initial situation-type to accommodate the information in the...
... Illustration ofthe path a classifier must trace in order to identify the location ofthe gap from Figure At the top level, it must choose to recurse into the SQ node, and at the second level, into the ... downward from there, eventually predicting the location ofthe gap At each node we encounter, the classifier chooses either to recurse into one ofthe child nodes, or to predict the existence of a gap ... within the VP subtree it should predict the location ofthe gap as the last child ofthe parent VP SBARQ - begin at the first branching node dominating the WH operator, and train a classifier to...
... heuristics ofthe relevant Expert subclass (here the Travel Expert), the system analyses the supplied information, to try to establish the context ofthe transaction, and then to process the transaction ... ask the user to narrow the enquiry to one ofthe areas available Although the system may request specific information (as in the turn above), the user may supply rather more than this Using the ... travel tothe destination on the day and at the time requested Figure below illustrates the process If the instance is unable to meet the criteria it simply performs a cut and passes the call to the...
... priests, the guardians ofthe sanctuary, had access.18 They refuse to put the money into the treasury ofthe Temple; ‘they use it to buy a field, thus inscribing their crime on the soil of Israel’19 ... After the death and burial of Jesus, the chief priests (together with the Pharisees’) set a guard at the tomb of Jesus and make it ‘secure’ by sealing the stone After the 18 When Matthew writes of ... seated at the right hand of God and will come ‘with the clouds of heaven’ at the climax of history to gather in the elect (Mark 14: 61–2 parr.); (4) Pilate’s question, ‘are you the King ofthe Jews?’...
... singular (for example, the giving ofthe tablets to Moses on Mount Sinai, the revelation ofthe Quran through Mohammed, the incarnation of God in Christ, the Enlightenment ofthe Buddha), competing ... studying them The dynamic model of how we come to know our experience and the experiences of others developed in chapter is based on research on embodiment and theory of mind Theory of mind is ... Protestant theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, the self-authenticating experience ofthe individual seemed like a promising source of religious renewal, less vulnerable tothe acids of historical...
... functional Equation 1.1 using the alternative of fixed point Before proceeding the proof, we will state the theorem, the alternative of fixed point Theorem 2.1 (The alternative of fixed point [13,14]) ... solution ofthe Equation 1.1 The authors [12] acquired the general solution and proved the stability ofthe functional Equation 1.1 for the case that X and Y are real vector spaces as follows Theorem ... y) for all x, y Î X} for all g, h Î Ω Then, (Ω, d) is complete Proof The proof is similar tothe proof of Lemma 2.2 Theorem 2.5 Assume that satisfies the condition lim 4n ϕ n→∞ x y z w =0 ,...
... However the coefficients ofthe AFB prototype filter are regarded as constants in this design step, due tothe fact they are fixed tothe design result obtained in the first algorithm Therefore the distortion ... convex due tothe linearity ofthe left term in h Please note that the number of constraints in the stopband in the original formulation is infinite regarding tothe frequency Ω(i) In the linearized ... function, instead of minimizing the group delay ofthe distortion function, similar to minimizing the group delay of an FIR prototype filter in Section The real-valued SFB prototype filter has to meet given...
... Academy of Sciences ofthe United States of America, vol 27, pp 222–224, 1941 T Aoki, “On the stability ofthe linear transformation in Banach spaces,” Journal ofthe Mathematical Society of Japan, ... called the Theodorus function Theorem 1.1 The unique solution f : −1, ∞ → C of 1.1 satisfying the additional condition that lim n→∞ f x n f n 1.3 for all x ∈ 0, is the Theodorus function Theorem ... solution of 1.1 such that f 1, |f x | is monotonic and arg f x is monotonic and continuous, then f is the Theodorus function Theorem 1.3 If f : −1, ∞ → C is a solution of 1.1 such that f√ monotonic...
... going into involved mathematical analysis The idea is to optimize the above scattering equation using a variation approach (11) together with special properties ofthe space ofthe complex vectors ... = The number of antennas at reception strongly depends then on the precision of Pe,NR (SNR) (ii) Knowing that the choice ofthe probability of errors depends on the type of service we want to ... borrow methods used to describe spin particles toapproachthe channel Note that the state ψs,m is often denoted as |m = ±1 This vector may be also used to describe the bits vector of BPSK modulation...
... that the only one difference ofthe generalized metric from the usual metric is that the range ofthe former is permitted to include the infinity We now introduce one ofthe fundamental results of ... Point Theory and Applications and proved the Hyers theorem That is, Rassias proved the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability ofthe Cauchy additive functional equation Since then, the stability of several ... fixed point method tothe investigation of a the Cauchy additive functional equation Using such a clever idea, they could present another proof for the Hyers-Ulam stability of that equation [13–15]...
... along the lines ofthe previous section, relating the counting of maxima tothe length ofthe longest alternating subsequence and then, through mixing and ergodicity, obtain results on the asymptotic ... advantage ofthe mixing property we can now infer without much effort the behaviour ofthe asymptotic variance and also deduce the asymptotic normality ofthe statistic LAn (µ) This is done in the ... , tr be the positions, in increasing order, ofthe local maxima ofthe sequence a, and let s1 , , sr′ be the positions, in increasing order, ofthe local minima of a, not including the local...
... tomography A) withB); mass tothe left lobe of computerized tomography A) and B); mass in the left lobe ofthe liver has decreased in size with respect tothe prior study The patient then underwent portal ... lobe of multiple Computerized tomography A) and B); evaluation ofthe liver demonstrated a large inhomogeneous mass with multiple areas of cystic component within the left lobe ofthe liver The ... corroborated the diagnosis of metastatic GIST with margins of resection free of tumor The patient tolerated the procedure well and was sent home after a 14-day hospitalization The postoperative...