laparoscopic and robotic partial nephrectomy

... work in our homes and offices by taking the role of cleaner, courier, nurse, and security guard among others Robots will recognize their owners by appearance and voice, and understand natural modes ... interaction, allowing people to communicate and work cooperatively and intuitively with their robotic companions Our knowledge and intuition about how humans reason and interact with the world will boot-strap ... of a 3D robotic vision system, namely the imaging sensor and active stereo camera head Finally, Sections 2.3 and 2.4 paint a broad outline of issues and methods in visual perception and control...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 12:08

... hypertrophied pyloric muscle to the submucosa and closing the muscle transversely • Ramsted 1912: closing the muscle is unnecessary • Laparoscopic: Alain and coworkers 1990 Ito năm 2000 Measurements ... >10  15 >15  17 >17 ≤2.5 > 2.5  3.5 > 3.5  4.5 > 4.5 ≤13 >13  19 >19  22 >22 Pyloromyotomy Laparoscopic pyloromyotomy Result Total complication Wound complication Postoperative length...

Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2016, 06:17

... relieves the pain and suffering of cancer and glaucoma patients, should be legalized? Euphemisms, dysphemisms, and biased questions can have a powerful influence on readers and listeners Euphemisms ... leading brand is to fall right into the ad’s trap This tactic is good for the makers of Stain-Ex, but not so good for you or the leading brand Flip through just about any popular magazine and you’ll ... New and improved Mildew-Gone is tougher on mildew stains than our old formula Smooth-Touch toilet tissue—twice as much paper as Thompson tissue at half the price per roll! 42 – PARTIAL CLAIMS AND...

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Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 12:15

... (courtesy of Dr J.-P Merlet); and (c) the Hayward shoulder module (courtesy of Prof V Hayward.) TLFeBOOK 1.5 Robotic Hands 11 1.5 Robotic Hands As stated above, the hand can be regarded as the most ... given vector v is unique Let U and V be two vector spaces of dimensions m and n, respectively, and L a linear transformation of U into V, and define bases BU and BV for U and V as BU = {uj }m , BV ... motions of the human hand, i.e., robotic mechanical hands These robotic systems are meant to perform manipulation tasks, a distinction being made between simple manipulation and dextrous manipulation...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 18:20

... Series J Angeles, Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems: Theory, Methods, and Algorithms, 2nd ed P Basu, C Kefa, and L Jestin, Boilers and Burners: Design and Theory J.M Berthelot, Composite ... First and foremost, Eric Martin and Ferhan Bulca, Ph.D candidates under my cosupervision, are deeply thanked for their invaluable help and unlimited patience in the editing of the manuscript and ... branches of science and engineering Research areas such as computer vision, artificial intelligence, and speech recognition play key roles in the development and implementation of robotics; these...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 18:20

... following Corollary 1.3 and Exercise 1.1) [Hint: Set α = [x, y] and apply Theorem 1.12 to the functions ϕ and ψ defined as follows: 1 ϕ(z) = x + z − x , z ∈ E, 2 and −tα when z = ty and t ≥ 0, ψ(z) = ... dear friends and former colleagues: Ph Ciarlet and H Berestycki I am very grateful to G Tronel, M Comte, Th Gallouet, S Guerre-Delabrière, O Kavian, S Kichenassamy, and the late Th Lachand-Robert, ... Consequently, f is continuous and f ≤ (α − f (x0 )) r Definition Let A and B be two subsets of E We say that the hyperplane H = [f = α] separates A and B if f (x) ≤ α ∀x ∈ A and f (x) ≥ α ∀x ∈ B We...

Ngày tải lên: 04/02/2014, 11:10

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 08:20

... Polynomials 345 Comments and References 353 Chapter Review 354 Miscellaneous Exercises 354 Definition and Elementary Properties 363 Partial Fractions and Convolutions 369 Partial Differential Equations ... 1.8 and 3.5 and Chapter gives a very applied flavor Chapter reviews solution techniques and theory of ordinary differential equations and boundary value problems Equilibrium forms of the heat and ... Sturm– Liouville problems, and the sequel, Section 3.4; and the more difficult parts of Chapter 5, Sections 5.5–5.10 on Bessel functions and Legendre polynomials On the other hand, inclusion of numerical...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 14:20

... 100 (0.55) /0.06 ovarian cystectomy, and total laparoscopic hysterectomy, etc Laparoscopic intervention was completed successfully in all enrolled patients and there was no conversion to exploratory ... respiratory rate, and pulse oximetry were recorded at each stage The standardized anesthesia monitoring protocol parameters have been found to monitor homeostasis reliably during laparoscopic surgery ... for benefit and better management of patients in the future Material and Method The authors prospectively evaluated a consecutive series of patients enrolled between November 2006 and March 2007...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... PETERFALVI Translated by R SANDLING 273 Spectral theory and geometry, E.B DAVIES & Y SAFAROV (eds) 274 The Mandelbrot set, theme and variations, T LEI (ed) 275 Descriptive set theory and dynamical systems, ... (u, v) = Ω and |v| = (v, v)1/2 , M Boukrouche & G Lukaszewicz and in V the scalar product and norm are (∇u, ∇v) and |∇v|2 = (∇v, ∇v) We use the notation ·, · for the pairing between V and its dual ... perspectives in random matrix theory and number theory, F MEZZADRI & N.C SNAITH (eds) Poisson geometry, deformation quantisation and group representations, S GUTT et al (eds) Singularities and computer...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... theory, systems, and applications, and - highlight open problems and challenges that remain The summer school had 45 participants (15 lecturers and 30 students) from 24 departments and industrial ... summer school Part I: Practice and experience using partial evaluators - Torben Mogensen Partial Evaluation: Concepts and Applications Introduces the basic idea of partial evaluation: specialization ... by exploiting partial knowledge of its input Some small examples are shown and the basic theory, concepts, and applications of partial evaluation are described, including "the partial evaluation...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 02:20

... as being a function of, say, T and V , we henceforth write ∂S ∂T V to denote the partial derivative of S in T , with V held constant, and ∂S ∂V T to denote the partial derivative of S in V , ... = ∅ (b) absorbing and essentially isothermal if t− (Γ) = ∅, t+ (Γ) = ∅ and T (Y (t)) is constant on t+ (Γ) (c) emitting and essentially isothermal if t+ (Γ) = ∅, t− (Γ) = ∅ and T (Y (t)) is constant ... interpretation of entropy and Chapter VIII concerns the related theory of large deviations Following Varadhan [V] and Rezakhanlou [R], I will explain some connections with entropy, and demonstrate various...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:29

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... 20-mer dsDNA and PsSiR as a competitor, and then the mixture was electrophoresed (Fig 6A) The densities of shifted band signals at two-, five- and 10-fold excess of competitor were 34, 17 and 12%, ... SiR activity and DNA-binding activity We also examined differences in the properties of PsSiR and ZmSiR, such as DNA binding and localization within chloroplasts Results Isolation and molecular ... active site of the enzyme through four cysteine ligands, Cys434, Cys440, Cys479, and Cys483, and that four basic residues, Arg83, Arg153, Lys215, and Lys217, are involved in the substrate coordination...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 08:20

... implementation was a combined partial parser and tagger that would be reasonably fast, but at the same time easy to modify and maintain At the time of designing and implementing the parser, neither ... rule) Conclusion and Future Work Althought morphosyntactic disambiguation rules and partial parsing rules often encode the same linguistic knowledge, we are not aware of any partial (or shallow) ... and disambiguating it with the same rules that are used for parsing This paper presents a formalism and a working prototype of a tool implementing simultaneous rule-based disambiguation and partial...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... classified In the second we present recall and precision for Objects and Properties We have distinguished fully correct interpretations from partially correct A partially correct interpretation provides ... allows for generalization of grammar rules and partial parsing This reduces the sizes of the grammar and lexicon which results in reduced development time and faster computation The lexical entries ... the database, T, and the information describing the background system's capabilities, S, 2) information from dialogues collected with users of the system, and 3) common sense and prior 591 knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... isoforms (5-5, 6-6 and3 -6)showedhighactivitywithbothCDNB(> 300 lmolÆ min)1Æmg)1) and ETHA (> 15 lmolÆmin)1Æmg)1); and the fourth group (isoform 3-3) showed the highest activity with ETHA and an intermediate ... 6-6 presented one single band whereas the heterodimer 3-6 displayed two bands located at 24 and 23 kDa thus confirming the HPLC results (Fig 3) Moreover, isoforms 4-4, 5-5 and 6-6 also gave a positive ... called GST-4 and GST-4c from Anopholes dirus were 149.85 and 18.69Æs)1 for kcat, 172.24 and 62.30 mM)1s)1 for the ratio kcat/Km(GSH) and 713.57 and 186.9 mM)1s)1 for the ratio kcat/Km(CDNB) As regards...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:20

... ! and Q ! P: C: Enough to check f The result follows from basic facts 1) and 3) Hence we have proved Lemma and part 1) Part 2) follows analogously We now return to the single layer potential and ... of Daivd and Journ 3] Theorem 1.6 T bounded on L2 i T BMO The de nition of BMO and the theorem and its proof will be discussed in Chapter References 1] E M Stein: Singular integral and di erentiability ... the surface measure on @ and @nQ is the directional derivative along the unit outward normal for @ at Q It is immediate that Df (P ) = 0; P Rn n @ and Df will be our candidate for solution of...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:16

... learn this material from Anderson’s works [And9 2] and [And] , and references therein, which contain results heavily overlapping those of our Chapter Some terminology and notation that we will ... “natural” systems (cf §2.1, §2.5, and §3.3) In more modern times, numerous works of I Anderson, D Betounes, R Hermann, N Kamran, V Lychagin, P Olver, H Rund, A Vinogradov, and their coworkers, just to ... N To study these Lagrangians and Euler-Lagrange equations geometrically, one has to choose a class of admissible coordinate changes, and there are four natural candidates In increasing order...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:56