... Take Pressure off the Nerves 185 14 Surgery Inside the Spinal Dural Lining 201 15 Spine Carpentry: HistoryandPrinciplesofRebuildingtheBrokenSpine 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 ofthe neck, causing additional pains One example is the set of occipital muscles that attach along the back ofthe base ofthe skull These may pinch the small nerves...
... determine and to improve the quality of SAM-based junctions We optimized the fabrication ofthe bottom and top-electrodes, and investigated the effect ofthe supramolecular structure ofthe self-assembled ... to the line ofthe 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 ofthe data sets is important for a proper statistical treatment ofthe junctions The size of J(V) data sets is determined by the number of junctions andthe number of...
... to overcome two ofthe 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 ofthe 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...
... Barfoot P Global impact of biotech crops: Environmental effects, 1996–2010 GM Crops and Food: Biotechnology in Agriculture andthe 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...
... “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...
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end ofthe process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal andthe 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 ofthe theory, however,...
... improve the quality of life ofthe poor and rural people adult education programs should include as one of its components the observation and imitation ofthe artisans and other skilled persons in the ... maintains the hegemony andthe gap between the poor andthe rich, the major and minority groups In order to redress poverty the adult education program needs to be aware ofthe 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 ofthe majority communities in Botswana 31 In most parts of the...
... to the natural protectorate law andthe decision ofthe Prime Minister regulating to activities inside the protectorates in addition to the inefficiency ofthe biological treatment project of ... Damietta and Alexandria The Governmental action to solve the water pollution crisis in general andthe fresh water problem is desperately needed but not gained yet, despite ofthe all the floral ... media announcements, conferences and posters(according to the reports ofthe Ministry of Environment andthe cry-outs of stakeholders remarkably reported by the media ...
... 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 andthe ... income and wealth According to this method of matching, the two groups—which include the treatment group of households representing the result ofthe HPAI-induced supply -and- demand shocks andthe ... producers in the study countries who are likely to bear the brunt ofthe disease? This can be hypothesized through Items and together What is the effect ofthe disease outbreaks and scares/threats...
... the formation ofthe joints ofthe come into contact with one another Ossification ofthe base jaw occur between the seventh and twentieth embryonic ofthe cranium andofthe facial portion of ... sectioning, and through it can be seen the upper surface ofthe condyle (arrow) upon the shape ofthe fossa, the inclination ofthe protuberance, andthe shape ofthe condyle In the 1970s this led to the ... process to the posterior edge ofthe angle ofthe mandible While part ofthe ligament inserts onto the mandible, its largest part radiates into the fascia ofthe medial pterygoid muscle (Sicher and...
... P1 is the price ofthe lth category of labor services and P'i is its relative price The relative price is the ratio ofthe price ofthe lth category of labor services to the average price of labor ... where v1 is the relative share ofthe lth category of labor in the total value of labor input.3 The number of man-hours for each labor service is the product ofthe number of men, say n1, and hours ... for such a hypothesis, partly because of lack of relevant data They used the education ofthe total labor force in a state for the measurement ofthe quality ofthe labor force of individual industries...
... determinants ofthe presence of Zn(II), and therefore ofthe Zn- or Cu-thionein character ofthe polypeptides Hence, the two full-length peptides, CeMT1 and CeMT2, give rise to mixtures of complexes, ... stoichiometry andthe homogeneity of their preparations These differences are a result ofthe different coordination capacities ofthe 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 ofthe spectrum of Cd6Zn1–CeMT1 in relation to that of Cd6–CeMT2 is attributable to the influence ofthe Zn(II)...
... a time and when to take the pills One ofthe instruction sets was just words andthe other was words plus a drawing that integrated the pill taking instructions The content and order ofthe two ... Half were randomly given just text andthe other half received the same text plus pictures that illustrated the information in the text Fig shows examples ofthe text and pictures they used Subjects ... doctors tell them, andthe 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...
... at the close ofthe 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 ofthe 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...
... 20 ofthe competencies and skills featured in the survey, the “best” responses ofthe officers differed significantly from those ofthe enlisted personnel For the remaining 26 competencies and ... differences between the total responses ofthe 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 ofthe “best” response analysis for the entire...
... 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, andthe filtered measure of adjusted money growth, μf , for the case that the central bank sticks to the original estimate ofthe intercept, γ0 , in the money demand equation and never...
... the motivation ofthe study, the strengths and weaknesses ofthe research design, the main assumptions made andthe main results are presented Finally and most importantly, the contribution of ... choice, the characteristics ofthe discloser (i.e credibility) andofthe information disclosed (i.e verifiability) and how these characteristics interact with the expected effects ofthe disclosure ... write a term paper on a topic relating to the course The topic will be decided together by the student andthe instructors before the end ofthe course The paper could be a conceptual study consisting...
... contributions JMV, LR, and JA participated in the conception and design ofthe study EVO, SRF, GV and JAPV analyzed the data EVO, JMV, MH, MF, LR and JA participated in the drafting ofthe 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 ofthe 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 ofthe study and changes in the traditional...
... Fragile X syndrome andthe FMR1 gene Schematic representation ofthe location ofthe FMR1 gene on the long arm ofthe X chromosome (a) The FMR1 gene comprises a polymorph repetition ofthe base pairs ... syndrome andthe MECP2 Gene Schematic representation ofthe location ofthe MECP2 gene on the long arm ofthe X chromosome (a) The MECP2 gene is constituted by coding exons .The majority of mutations ... hypermethylation ofthe CGG repetition andthe adjacent area, which leads to a transcription stop resulting in the absence ofthe FMR1 protein This results in intellectual disability and other symptoms of the...