evaluation of bone fragility and fracture prevention

... addition, bone Page of 19 mass had to be assessed as bone mineral density or bone quality, and osteoporosis was defined as low bone mass (T-score ≤-2.5) or increased fracture risk (vertebral and non-vertebral) ... interpretation and analysis of the data and drafted the manuscript LT participated in interpretation and analysis of the data and helped to draft the manuscript WL conceived of the Page 15 of 19 hypothesis ... surface of osteoblasts and is often used as a marker for bone turnover ALP is an enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of phosphate esters Hydrolysis of pyrophosphate, which is an inhibitor of hydroxyapatite...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... (rooftop of Sumida-ku Ward Office as catchment area) and communal RWH called ‘rojison’ - 190 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 9, No.2, 2011 From the interviews with Sumida-ku officers, ... policy makers and end-users) Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 9, No.2, 2011 Mandatory Scheme The introduction of WWR and cumulative charging system are considered as mandatory schemes, ... water demand reduction in industrial sectors and enhancement of people’s awareness towards water conservation The implementation of intermediary scheme i.e RWH and finally the execution of mandatory...

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... to the history of land concessions in Laos, with an assessment and review of laws and policies related to forestry and land, and an analysis of the process of authorization of land concessions ... development of the meaning of “land”, the history of the land concessions, from the first beginnings to the present, rights and powers in the management and use of land, and the process of granting land ... to land and forest in 19791 with the objective of protection and preservation of the forest This Regulation defined land and forest as “land and forest land in the entirety of the territory of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... Dependency-based evaluation of MINIPAR In LREC Workshop on the Evaluation of Parsing Systems M Marcus, B Santorini, and M A Marcinkiewicz 1994 Building a large annotated corpus of English: The ... empty categories are stripped off (Figure 2) While most of the state -of- the-art parsers are based on probabilistic CFGs, the parameterization of the probabilistic model of each parser varies In this ... lexicalized PCFG model of phrase structure trees.3 The probabilities of CFG rules are parameterized on carefully hand-tuned extensive information such as lexical heads and symbols of ancestor/sibling...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... rigid dichotomy often presumed between forest and plantation is irrelevant to the understanding and management of such land-use systems The recent changes of status of the Ministry of Forestry to ... Palembang, Sumatra I.P Anderson, I.D Imanda and Muhnandar Vegetation fires in Indonesia: the interpretation of NOAA-derived hot-spot data I.P Anderson, I.D Imanda and Muhnandar Vegetation fires in Sumatra,Indonesia: ... presentation and distribution of NOAA-derived data I.P Anderson, I.D Imanda and Muhnandar Vegetation fires in Indonesia: the fire history of the Sumatra provinces 1996-1998 as a predictor of future...

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Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... effectiveness of improving infrastructure quality in education (Hanushek 1995, Kremer 1995), health (Alderman and Lavy 1996, Lavy and others 1996, Mwabu and others 1993), and drinking water (Brockerhoff and ... focus of this evaluation study and most others The evaluation used different methodologies for different types of projects (education, health, and water) in two regions, the Chaco region and the ... aEstimations Random assignment of eligibility Random assignment of eligibility Nonbeneficiaries randomized out of eligibility for receiving project promotion Bounds on treatment effect derived from randomly...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:20

... Nivre, and Evelina Andersson 2011 Evaluating dependency parsing: Robust and heuristics-free cross-framework evaluation In Proceedings of EMNLP Reut Tsarfaty, Joakim Nivre, and Evelina Andersson ... Better Arabic parsing: Baselines, evaluations, and analysis In Proceedings of COLING Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow 2005 Arabic tokenization, part -of- speech tagging and morphological disambiguation ... defined in terms of the worst-case scenario, in which the parser has only made incorrect decisions We would need to delete all lexemes and nodes in p and add all the lexemes and nodes of g, except...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 14:20

... 12 of the "sleep adequacy" dimension of the Australian, Hungarian and UK English versions, and item of the South African, item of the "somnolence" dimension of the German and South African and ... items and 12 of the "sleep adequacy" dimension for the Australian and Hungarian versions, item 11 of the "somnolence" dimension for the German, Hungarian and South African versions, and item of ... than 99% of the sample) The analysis of change over time (responsiveness) of the MOS-Sleep was performed on all subjects who completed at least 50% of the items of the MOS-Sleep at baseline and at...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... showing high cellularity and a large amount of woven bone, and the beginning of an increase in the amount of lamellar bone Around Day 21 post -fracture (late stage), woven bone and cartilage could ... cartilage and calcally organized tissues (HE) Histological cutand woven bone of lamellar bone concentriHistological cut showing details of lamellar bone concentrically organized and woven bone mixed ... Ott SM, Recker RR: Bone Histomorphometry Standardization of nomenclature, symbols and units J Bone and Min Res 1987, 2:595-610 Compston J: Bone Histomorphometry In Methods in bone biology 1st edition...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... implant and the bone and soft-tissue pixels adjacent to the edge of the implants were counted Osseointegration was defined as bone- to-implant contact and calculated as the ratio of the number of bone ... femora were harvested, cleaned of soft tissue, and fixed in 70% ethanol The femur bone was trimmed above and below the ends of the implant, cleaned of soft-tissue, and fixed in 70% alcohol The ... 200 and 255), bone pixels (grayscale value between 80 and 200), and soft-tissue pixels (grayscale value between and 80) An edge detection algorithm was used to detect pixels at the perimeter of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... method of measuring bone density The T-score relates bone density to young, healthy, race and gender-matched bone It is easily obtained and provides an objective quantitative number The T-score and ... model and the explanatory variables of Tscore and body mass index demonstrated that the femoral failure rate could be as high as 87% if a patient has a T-score of -2.4 and a body mass index of 43 ... T-score of 2.3 and a body mass index of 28 kg/m2, which was revised to a THA at two months post-operatively; the other case was in a female patient with a T-score of -2.1 and body mass index of 28...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... the soft-input soft-output (SISO) decoder from which we obtain our first soft decoded bit estimates to be provided for the pd and elimiter estimation and compensation block and for bit error evaluation ... and PAPR effects in more detail and after that we will describe the reference spectral power mask and related simulations and results 5.1 PAPR analysis and simulated results For the analysis and ... is the number of observations of a certain constellation point on a real or imaginary axis, pi is the probability of that constellation point and in our case n = Nc is the number of realizations...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... NOFDM sum (7) where G (1/4 in our measurements) corresponds to the ratio of cyclic prefix time and useful OFDM symbol time, Ndata (44 in our measurements) is the number of OFDM data symbols, NOFDM ... measurements, we chose a channel bandwidth of MHz For this channel bandwidth, the WiMAX standard defines a sampling rate of Ts = 1/5.76 MHz The 5.76 MHz total signal bandwidth emerging from this sampling ... scenario measured) (ii) Receiver and transmitter are synchronized by means of rubidium frequency standards and a LAN connection (iii) The carrier frequency is 2.5 GHz; the bandwidth is MHz (iv) The two...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... RESULTS Comparison of the growth of parent trees and clones of the 1st and 2nd generation Research plots were evaluated in the intervals of several years So data acquired in plantations of different ... Journal of Forest Research, 22: 335–361 Jonsson B (1999): Stand establishment and early growth of planted Pinus sylvestris and Picea abies related to microsite conditions Scandinavian Journal of Forest ... (Fig 7) The evaluation of water content in shoots after 15 and 180 minutes of controlled desiccation in laboratory conditions (Figs and 9) suggested the worse ability of trees of clone 548 to resist...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... Organization of Iran Tehran, Forest and Range Organization of Iran: 43–45 K M (2007): The study of import and exports of timbers from the Iranian ports [MSc Thesis.] Tehran, University of Tehran: ... length, width and height Such timbers were extracted out of forest stands using the animals like horses and mules in such a way that each animal carried two logs per load and one end of timbers ... maximum of log products in Golestan, Mazandaran and Gilan forestlands was 60,162 m3 (1999), 231,774 m3 (1998) and 149,808 m3 (1994), respectively The log products in the three forestlands vis-à-vis...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... thicknesses of renal cortex and medulla were 0.47 ± 0.08 cm (mean ± SD) in the left kidney and 0.47 ± 0.08 cm in the right kidney, and 0.55 ± 0.30 cm in the Table Comparison of renal dimensions of 27 ... breathing patterns of animals, degree of interference by other organs (e.g liver and spleen), and the skills of the practitioner, although the high-quality ultrasound machine and appropriate transducer ... Committee of Kangwon National University and was performed under strict adherence to the guidelines which included animal care, euthanasia, and disposal of dead animals Fig Determination of renal...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... [24] demands the attention and time of researchers in a fight to improve treatment modalities and widen the understanding of uterine MMMT Conclusions Our study supports that cell cycle and apoptotic ... The Scientific Teaching and Research Grant of the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan Author Details Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, ... pathways of the bcl-2 family of genes and the ICE family of proteases These components interact with other cell cycle related genes such as p53 The central role of the Bcl-2 family of genes in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21

... the subpopulation of colon and rectal cancer, despite the different biological characteristics, treatment modalities, pattern of recurrence and survival rates of the two group of neoplasms [6] ... symptoms and major medical problems of patients; laboratory data and neoplastic markers values; location, size, endoscopic appearance and preoperative staging of the tumour; operation type, degree of ... considered as categories: pT < and pT > Presence of mucorrhea and anismus, hematocrit value ranging between 16,7% and 31%, WBC count between 4500 and 5800/mm3 and fibrinogen value > 400 mg/dl...

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