history and principles of rebuilding the broken spine

... Take Pressure off the Nerves 185 14 Surgery Inside the Spinal Dural Lining 201 15 Spine Carpentry: History and Principles of Rebuilding the Broken Spine 207 Fixing the Cervical Spine: Surgical ... during the course of weeks of therapy, it’s often hard to tell whether the therapy led to the improvement or if it was just “window dressing” for the passage of time Nonetheless, the cervical spine ... tension on the numerous nerves of the neck, causing additional pains One example is the set of occipital muscles that attach along the back of the base of the skull These may pinch the small nerves...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:33

... determine and to improve the quality of SAM-based junctions We optimized the fabrication of the bottom and top-electrodes, and investigated the effect of the supramolecular structure of the self-assembled ... to the line of the mold The thin layer of PDMS was cured (D) More uncured PDMS was added to stabilize the thin layer of PDMS and cured (E) The microfluidic device was peeled off from the mold and ... Size of Data Sets The size of the data sets is important for a proper statistical treatment of the junctions The size of J(V) data sets is determined by the number of junctions and the number of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:18

... to overcome two of the major barriers to the adoption of industrial robots: usability and cost Instead of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the price tag is US$22,000.4 And rather than relying ... Coeckelbergh, an assistant professor at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and managing director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology More fundamentally, there are wideranging challenges ... products with consistency and reliability And by making them in the US, they could ship them to their customers faster than the competitors could.” The learning process The manufacturing executives...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:21

... Barfoot P Global impact of biotech crops: Environmental effects, 1996–2010 GM Crops and Food: Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain 2012;3(2):129-137 Brookes G The impact of using GM insect ... J.M., The Impact of Biotechnology and Information Technology on Agricultural Worker Safety and Health National Ag Safety Database, 2005 Tarrago-Trani MT, Phillips KM, Lemar LE, Holden JM New and ... Food and nutrition biotechnology: Achievements, prospects and perceptions 2005 US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Petition for determination of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/07/2015, 15:55

... “For thousands of years we’ve been breeding plants…so that we can have fruits and vegetables that are safe and healthy We’re now using the latest generation of biotechnology to…make them even safer.” ... decades of research FDA on Animal Cloning: Meat and milk from cows, goats, and pigs are the same as from other animals Food Biotechnology: A Communicator’s Guide to Improving Understanding www.foodinsight.org/foodbioguide.aspx ... Increased levels of naturally occurring toxins • Changes to nutrient composition or profile FDA has determined the process of biotechnology is not a “material fact” to be mandated on the food label...

Ngày tải lên: 17/07/2015, 15:55

... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... affected by the creation and use of fiat-money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus of the theory, however,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33

... improve the quality of life of the poor and rural people adult education programs should include as one of its components the observation and imitation of the artisans and other skilled persons in the ... maintains the hegemony and the gap between the poor and the rich, the major and minority groups In order to redress poverty the adult education program needs to be aware of the social functions of language ... for the betterment of their conditions It could mobilize the so called minorities to oppose their status and challenge the hegemony of the majority communities in Botswana 31 In most parts of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 16:27

... to the natural protectorate law and the decision of the Prime Minister regulating to activities inside the protectorates in addition to the inefficiency of the biological treatment project of ... Damietta and Alexandria The Governmental action to solve the water pollution crisis in general and the fresh water problem is desperately needed but not gained yet, despite of the all the floral ... media announcements, conferences and posters(according to the reports of the Ministry of Environment and the cry-outs of stakeholders remarkably reported by the media                        ...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... one of these studies collected data on the number of poultry kept by the sampled households in the study year and, in the case of Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana, on the number of poultry sold and the ... income and wealth According to this method of matching, the two groups—which include the treatment group of households representing the result of the HPAI-induced supply -and- demand shocks and the ... producers in the study countries who are likely to bear the brunt of the disease? This can be hypothesized through Items and together What is the effect of the disease outbreaks and scares/threats...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... the formation of the joints of the come into contact with one another Ossification of the base jaw occur between the seventh and twentieth embryonic of the cranium and of the facial portion of ... sectioning, and through it can be seen the upper surface of the condyle (arrow) upon the shape of the fossa, the inclination of the protuberance, and the shape of the condyle In the 1970s this led to the ... process to the posterior edge of the angle of the mandible While part of the ligament inserts onto the mandible, its largest part radiates into the fascia of the medial pterygoid muscle (Sicher and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

... P1 is the price of the lth category of labor services and P'i is its relative price The relative price is the ratio of the price of the lth category of labor services to the average price of labor ... where v1 is the relative share of the lth category of labor in the total value of labor input.3 The number of man-hours for each labor service is the product of the number of men, say n1, and hours ... for such a hypothesis, partly because of lack of relevant data They used the education of the total labor force in a state for the measurement of the quality of the labor force of individual industries...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... determinants of the presence of Zn(II), and therefore of the Zn- or Cu-thionein character of the polypeptides Hence, the two full-length peptides, CeMT1 and CeMT2, give rise to mixtures of complexes, ... stoichiometry and the homogeneity of their preparations These differences are a result of the different coordination capacities of the respective C-terminal moieties and are attributable to the four ... reported for the native and recombinant Cd(II)–CeMT2 isoform [16,20] The slight blueshift of the spectrum of Cd6Zn1–CeMT1 in relation to that of Cd6–CeMT2 is attributable to the influence of the Zn(II)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... a time and when to take the pills One of the instruction sets was just words and the other was words plus a drawing that integrated the pill taking instructions The content and order of the two ... Half were randomly given just text and the other half received the same text plus pictures that illustrated the information in the text Fig shows examples of the text and pictures they used Subjects ... doctors tell them, and the more information the doctor presented, the lower the recall rate [7] And even with written instructions, most people read them only once and then rely on their memories...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... at the close of the plays It is important to note though, that they freely resume these roles, and that they so out of their own sense of self For each woman, it is a personal choice based on their ... given to the audience as to the reason for Katherine’s behavior It is enough to say that the actions of her father and sister not relieve the situation as well Throughout the whole of the play, ... favors her over Katherine as unspoiled merchandise Bianca has a rather small role to play in the whole of things She seems to be the archetypal young lady of quality Her lack of understanding for her...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:52

... 20 of the competencies and skills featured in the survey, the “best” responses of the officers differed significantly from those of the enlisted personnel For the remaining 26 competencies and ... differences between the total responses of the officers and those of enlisted personnel The results of this exercise are shown above and in the table that follows The table above shows the percentages ... with other settings shaded in the same manner RAND Project AIR FORCE 50 11/4/2002 The chart above is the first of three such charts showing the results of the “best” response analysis for the entire...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... inflation and inflation target Standard deviation of cost-push, demand and money demand shocks Standard deviation of noise of aggregate demand and cost-push shocks Standard deviation of money demand ... elasticity of money demand (in line with Andres et al (2006) and Ireland (2004)) Interest rate elasticity of money demand (in line with Andres et al (2006) and Ireland (2004)) Weighting parameter of ... rate, π, and the filtered measure of adjusted money growth, μf , for the case that the central bank sticks to the original estimate of the intercept, γ0 , in the money demand equation and never...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... the motivation of the study, the strengths and weaknesses of the research design, the main assumptions made and the main results are presented Finally and most importantly, the contribution of ... choice, the characteristics of the discloser (i.e credibility) and of the information disclosed (i.e verifiability) and how these characteristics interact with the expected effects of the disclosure ... write a term paper on a topic relating to the course The topic will be decided together by the student and the instructors before the end of the course The paper could be a conceptual study consisting...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... contributions JMV, LR, and JA participated in the conception and design of the study EVO, SRF, GV and JAPV analyzed the data EVO, JMV, MH, MF, LR and JA participated in the drafting of the article All ... transformed into T-values with a mean of 50 and standard deviation (SD) of 10 The T scores refer to the mean values and SD from a representative sample of the European general population so that ... confirm the importance of undesirable LEs in HRQoL and suggest that it is not differential by gender, which put forward the importance of a longitudinal design of the study and changes in the traditional...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Fragile X syndrome and the FMR1 gene Schematic representation of the location of the FMR1 gene on the long arm of the X chromosome (a) The FMR1 gene comprises a polymorph repetition of the base pairs ... syndrome and the MECP2 Gene Schematic representation of the location of the MECP2 gene on the long arm of the X chromosome (a) The MECP2 gene is constituted by coding exons .The majority of mutations ... hypermethylation of the CGG repetition and the adjacent area, which leads to a transcription stop resulting in the absence of the FMR1 protein This results in intellectual disability and other symptoms of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 05:20