determination of the hip joint center based on 3d surface anthropometry

... head with an months depression offlattening ofarticular surfacesubchon6 months later, severe flattening of the femoral head with an eccentric depression of the lateral articular surface associated ... zone) There was no evidence of sepsis in any of the specimens analysed, and over the course of this study none of the study group presented with evidence of deep sepsis associated with prosthesis ... alcoholism, and there was no relevant occupational or pharmacological history None of the patients underwent systemic steroid administration or injection of steroids to the affected joint, and none had...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... in the diagonal of B1 to achieve stability In the second method we alter the diagonal of B1 , with a value k > Changing the diagonal both improves the performance and ensures stability In the ... together with the other methods Despite the fact that our method uses only the 14th order approximation, it is definitely better than these methods, even better than S400 Conclusions As the eigenvectors ... and find the norm of error between samples of corresponding Hermite-Gaussian functions and the eigenvectors First we compare total norms of errors between the Hermite-Gaussian functions and the samples...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... vegetation and the rest of phytocoenosis contributing to the formation of the soil environment or on the contrary, the absence or presence of herbs on the soil surface is primarily caused by the ... eco-indicator of edaphic conditions Based on the observation of phytocoenoses, the soil environment can be described As a typical example we can cite the specification of groups of types of geobiocoenoses ... present On the basis of this work project we can conclude that the causation does not lie in the presence of a concrete soil property, but in the heterogeneity of soils in general CONCLUSION This contribution...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... intervention studies focused solely on hip joint OA and to decide whether they met the recommendations of the guidelines highlighted earlier, and also to determine the efficacy of their exercise-therapy ... of the Health Related Quality of Life Table Level of evidence for evaluating the efficacy of exercise therapy in the management of osteoarthritis of the hip Level of evidence Definition Strong ... pain, hip function (self-reported or performance based) , and quality of life Examples of self-reported pain included the VAS; the pain subscale of the Harris Hip Score; and/or the pain subscale of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... factors responsible for the dissolution of lead fragments in synovial fluid are the presence of hyaluronic acid and the ph of synovial fluid [8] On the other hand mechanical destruction of joint may ... his right hip Radiographs at the time of injury confirmed the presence of bullet around the hip joint He was managed conservatively at that time Now he was complaining of hip pain for the last ... Firstly the initial trauma may cause fractures of articular bone, leading to an incongruous and irregular joint surface Motion of such surfaces against each other may lead to joint destruction Secondly,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... micrographs of the fracture surface of the samples as Fe2O3 addition It is seen from the micrographs that the grain size grows with the increase of Fe2O3 addition Below the 0.25 wt% Fe2O3, the grain ... of the multi-component ceramics based on PZT and the relaxor ferroelectric materials, Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 and Pb(Mn1/3Nb2/3)O3 The results of the thesis will open up prospects for the fabrication ... fabrication of electronic ceramic materials in our country, particularly the feasibility of application of ceramic materials for fabricating ultrasonic sensors, ultrasonic cleaners The layout of the thesis:...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2014, 02:54

... When the pH of solution varies, the dielectric constants of DNA and solution around the SGR change, it brings about the variation of effective dielectric constant Therefore, the optical signals of ... (pH) α The pH-dependence of the exciton binding energy is insulated in Fig.4 Fig The pH-dependence of the exciton binding energy (16) pH-DEPENDENCE OF THE OPTICAL BIO-SENSOR 85 IV CONCLUSIONS This ... investigated the environment-dependent properties of biosensor We showed the expression of effective dielectric constant of medium The pH dependence of the optical biosensor from DNA and semiconductor...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2015, 10:42

... 3-linked) The location of the Fuc residue can be deduced from the CID MS/MS fragmentation In comparison with the spectrum of iLNO (Fig 1A), the D2b-5 ion has shifted 146 Da to m/z 1037 corresponding ... ion is at m/z 690, this excludes the possibility of the other Fuc being at the Gal next to the subterminal GlcNAc The position of the second Fuc 3-linked to the internal GlcNAc forming an internal ... from a contaminant (see below), having the same molecular mass with one Fuc in each of the 3- and 6-branches Comparison of the product-ion spectra of the singly and doubly charged molecular ion precursor...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... Infections after total hip replacement are based on the bacterial colonisation on the surface area of an endoprosthesis involving the local tissue and causing an immune reaction [15] The most common ... influence on the patient´s convenience [16] and the possibility of costs minimization [8, 14] The disadvantage of lacking inspections of the sponges can be compensated by daily controlling of the canister ... environment in the wound stimulate the proliferation of granulation tissue [2] However, although the V.A.C.-therapy corresponds with the concept of infection treatment with implant/prosthesis...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:53

... for the degree of Master of Arts (TEFL) accept the requirements of the College relating to the retention and use of Master of Arts Thesis deposited in the library In terms of these conditions, ... students reduce the reliability of the test scores On the basis of these results, the author provides some suggestions towards the improvement of the test quality The reliability of the final achievement ... administration For the reason of convenience and satisfaction, KD20 and KD 21 are often chosen more than the others and are considered the two most common formulae (Alderson J.S et al., 1995) Concerning...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46

... curve c is the critical state of which the pump can supply water under the outlet pressure of the pump station determined after the first optimization In the process of practical operation, the pump ... to the pressure of the control node after the hydraulic calculation, H c, j , H c, j max refer to the minimum and maximum allowable pressure of the control node, HJk,j is the pressure of the ... optimization is 3.84%, so the water supply requirement can be satisfied Fig.4 - The Outlet Flow for Each Pump Station of the First and Second Optimization CONCLUSION The purpose of optimal operation...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... superposition of both conformations can be seen in Fig 5C It is obvious that the NMR based structure determination of the bound conformation of the pentapeptide agrees with that obtained in the crystal ... [19] They report a significant contribution of Arg4 to binding by analyzing the surface of the residues covered by the protein They also see an interaction of the C-terminal part RPAP with the surface ... Most of these contacts are with the binding cavity in the Fv domain However, there are significant additional contacts to the bottom of the next Fab (cf Figure 10) The surface covered by the nonbinding...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20

... ‘‘pollution filter’’ based on the lower two quartiles of the CO and C2Cl4 mixing ratios was employed to mitigate the effect of pollution Figure shows the CO mixing ratios as a function of latitude ... alcohol These relationships were maintained even in the UT (8 – 12 km) region of the atmosphere We note that that the slopes of these lines are lower in the MBL for methanol and acetone and higher ... simulation of the potential contribution of observed acetaldehyde concentrations to formaldehyde and PAN formation Solid lines correspond to model runs that simulate observed acetaldehyde concentrations,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... not shown) There was also a single nonsense mutation leading to insertion of the TAA stop codon in exon of one of the vaspin A chain genes of V a zinnikeri (data not shown) These four clones are ... in the venom of these snakes because no neurotoxic envenomation has ever been reported in the Clermont-Ferrand region (Gabriel Montpied Hospital, personal communication) The expression of these ... with five exons separated by four introns (Table 3) Exons 3, and the 5¢ part of exon encode the mature protein; exon encodes the 5¢-UTR, and exon and part of exon encode the signal peptide The 110...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20

... on the activity of the activated different foils From the absolute photon fluxes, we have constructed the bremsstrahlung energy spectrum based on the unfolding technique in combination with the ... the bombarding electron The slowing down of electrons due to ionization losses leads to reduction of the high energy part in relation to low-energy radiation The shape of the obtained bremsstrahlung ... detection efficiencies at the photopeak energy The average activity of the activation foils served as photon flux to which the foils were exposed The relation between the average photon flux,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... distinguished  based on the probability  distribution  law.  The first  group  that consists of bicarbonate and calcium ions is  characterized  by  sub‐normal  distribution.  The second  one  that  consists  ... comparing  the average  values  of ions  concentration  with  the corresponding  values at mean (Table 3).  At the mean value, bicarbonate and calcium  ion  concentrations  are  the highest  among  ... Fig. 9. Frequency distribution of Ca  ions in dry  season of Holocene aquifer.   Magnesium (Mg2+) ions  Apart  from  the two  samples  without  Mg2+,  similarly  to  calcium  ions,  the concentration  of magnesium ions varies from 2.38 to 1053.69 mg/l. ...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... by the evolution of specialized gene functions, as well as by the creation and loss of different exons Both the emergence of additional genomic copies by gene duplication and retrotransposition, ... unknown whether the dual function of PUF60 on transcription and splicing is coupled as in the case of the CAPER proteins or whether PUF60 affects independently the transcrip- U2AF diversity tion and ... sequence termination if it contained an in-frame stop codon within an internal exon For the predicted patterns of splicing, there is redundance in the number of accessions shown because of the fragmented...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... which d is the dimensionality (the number of input features) in the problem As can be seen in (2), this factor drops out in the construction of the discriminant through the application of the natural ... matrix To that end, the columns marked ψ show the coefficient of variation, which is the ratio of the standard deviation of the mean of a feature versus the mean variability of the feature overall, ... specificity of the classifier; the overall accuracy of the classifier is simply the sum of the per-class accuracy values divided by the number of classifications made The bottom of the table displays...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... difference between the two studied groups, based on MSCOH In association with the selection of WT features in Section 3.3.1, we further consider synchronization mea- sures in the Theta and Alpha ... to 60% The most consistent result across the different brain regions, for WT, occurred for the Theta and Alpha bands with the exception of the score over the right temporal brain region which ... features A majority vote function applied on the classification outcomes of selected biomarkers This decision function selects the class label based on which of the available classes (epileptic...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... years instead of three) The present study shows that the precision of the measure is more dependent on the precision of the readers than on the radiographic view selected Although the three views ... mm) based on the combination of pelvic or oblique views, as compared with 48% of patients identified as progressors based on the pelvic view alone Using the pelvic or hip AP view, or combining one ... measurement The selection of one trained reader is preferable to using several readers in a trial Furthermore, the better the precision of the reader, the fewer the patients required for the trial...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20