... tissueengineered cartilage Rheumatology 2004, 43:1106-1108 Laasanen MS, Töyräs J, Vasara A, Saarakkala S, Hyttinen MM, Kiviranta I, Jurvelin JS: Quantitative ultrasound imaging of spontaneous repair of ... 43:302-305 Hattori K, Takakura Y, Ohgushi H, Habata T, Uematsu K, Takenaka M, Ikeuchi K: Which cartilage is regenerated, hyaline cartilage or fibrocartilage? Non-invasive ultrasonic evaluation of ... of cartilage None Diffuse hypercellularity Graft only Cloning Graft and adjacent normal cartilage Hypocellularity III Safranin-O staining IV Appearance of cartilage Translucent Normal Opaque...
... include paraganglioma, adrenal cortical carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, malignant melanoma and granular cell tumor Paraganglioma may show alveolar structures as well, ... patient had the soft tissue metastases (R0) and 21 pulmonary metastases (R2) resected (patient 2); the other one (patient 3) was operated on for his brain metastasis (R1) All intracranial metastases ... metastases were also treated with adjuvant radiation (30Gy), as well as the one soft tissue metastasis (60Gy) In addition, all patients with metastatic disease received several chemotherapeutics,...
... TTAGAGACA-3¢, reverse: 5¢-CTCGTCATAGAAGGG AGG-3¢; CaMKII forward: 5¢-GGTTCACGGACGAGT ATC-3¢, reverse: 5¢-TGGCATCAGCTTCACTGTA-3¢; CaMKIV forward: 5¢-GATGAAAGAGGCGATCAG-3¢, reverse: 5¢-TAGGCCCTCCTCTAGTTC-3¢; ... (1998) Calcium promotes cell survival through CaM-K kinase activation of the protein-kinase-B pathway Nature 396, 584–587 34 Hidaka, H., Yamaki, T., Naka, M., Tanaka, T., Hayashi, H & Kobayashi, ... stimulation with lM fMLP Cytochrome c reduction was immediately measured every 12 s as an increase in absorbance at 550 nm Measurement of apoptosis Apoptosis was measured by analyzing annexin...
... Gender andMarital status are covariates only for ExP • Age is not a relevant covariate for any of the five forms of SpR practice • Disease itself has an impact on NoP (and a minor impact on HuP and ... that an R-S- attitude was associated with the lowest engagement scores for all five forms of a SpR practice Variance analyses confirmed that SpR attitude and religious affiliation are the main ... Analyses of variance Next we tested the impact of several variables on the SpREUK P sub-scales, such as age, sex, marital status, educational level, religious affiliation, SpR attitude, disease...
... Chemical Co (St Louis, MO, USA) All other chemicals were locally purchased and of analytical grade Constructing AAV2-MORS19 6A- EGFP plasmid DsAAV-MORS19 6A- EGFP plasmid was constructed by replacing ... standard rodent diet and water were provided ad libitum The care of animals was carried out Page of in accordance with institutional and international standards (Principles of Laboratory Animal ... means ± the standard error of the mean (SEM) One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the Newman-Keuls test were used to analyze and compare the data Statistical significance was set at P < 0.05...
... regarding the most appropriate treatment Case presentation: We report the case of an 80-year-old Caucasian woman with a subtrochanteric fracture originally treated using a trochanteric gamma nail ... Case presentation An 80-year-old Caucasian woman sustained a right subtrochanteric femoral fracture following a domestic fall, classified according to the AO Foundation (AO)/Orthopaedic Trauma ... femoral fracture classified as 31 -A3 .3 under the AO Foundation (AO)/Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) fracture classification system Page of Figure Anteroposterior radiograph demonstrating...
... chart and comment on how this local approach complements the central collation and reporting paradigm of outcome monitoring from a national, centralised database Materials and methods All patient ... discharge Model fit was assessed with a calibration curve, and model discrimination was measured by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, approximated by the trapezoidal method ... outcome and length of stay for admissions to adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre Case Mix Programme Database...
... inhibitory activity of Sch-C was measured upon direct co-culture of effector and target cells at 37°C for hr (filled symbols) and after creating TAS (open symbols) TAS was created by preincubating cells ... when a 27°-TAS was created with cells expressing a higher density of the truncated coreceptor, a dramatic increase in the resistance to Sch-C was observed The apparent IC50 for Sch-C increased ... employ a double mutant damaged in both its Nt and ECL2 regions [36] Because HIV-1 infectivity assays not directly measure Env-mediated fusion, we examined the mechanism of adaptation by directly assessing...
... patients with ALD included two gastrointestinal hemorrhages, one intracranial hemorrhage, one major vaginal bleed, and one massive epistaxis In a multivariate regression model that included race, ... experienced a bleeding episode (this patient did not have ALD) Patients with ALD are at increased risk both for severe sepsis and for bleeding These data suggest that they may be at greatly increased ... Critical Care Vol 12 No Keene et al received APC at our hospital, seven of whom were not evaluable because of death soon after initiation of APC Of the 34 remaining patients, nine had major bleeding...
... metals obtained by ICP-OES technique that in an operational way were identified as potentially available fra1 fra2 fra3 fra4 fra1+2+3+4 fra2 fra4 fra1+2+3+4 0,1 mol/L HCl and sequential extractions ... concentration values in Table In that month, a meaningful decrease in the concentrations of all potentially available metals was verified Barreto et al [17] observed, however, a large increase in ... agitation: h 30 Values in parenthesis are standard deviation of three determinations S.R Giancoli Barreto et al / Talanta xxx (2004) xxx–xxx Table Concentrations of potentially available metals...
... diagnosis and treatment of hemangiomas The MRI appearance of splenic hemangiomas has been described as being similar to that of hepatic hemangiomas However, larger hemangiomas may have a variable ... DA: Familial segregation of hemangiomas and vascular malformations as an autosomal dominant trait Arch Dermatol 1998, 134:718-722 Meera AV, Sen S, Raghupathy P, Walter D, Chandy M, Krishnaswami ... [3] Embolization of hemangiomas, especially hepatic hemangiomas, has been shown to be as effective as surgical removal and appears to be an appealing strategy taking into consideration the reported...
... genome in cattle) In the first generation (base population), marker loci were coded as or and allocated at random, so that allele frequencies (p) averaged 0.5 This was comparable to the simulation ... for the two adjacent marker loci around each marker interval as an average (Hexp_AVG) resulted in systematically lower values with a smaller range compared to GD_IBD (0.05 to 0.50, average of 0.36) ... the assumption is that in the base population relatedness was 0, i.e all markers were not-IBD and "heterozygosity" was 100% With heterozygosity, no such base population is assumed and the assumption...
... recently-developed approaches Traditional approaches Language teaching was equated with grammar teaching for ages It was believed that language was mainly composed of grammar rules and that knowing those ... fields According to the synthesis of Nassaji, H and Fotos, S (2011), there have been the following approaches: Grammar-based approaches (traditional approaches), communicationbased approaches, and ... would be sufficient for learners to acquire a language There are various traditional grammar-based approaches such as the Grammar Translation Method, and other structure-based methods In spite of...
... Fading Depending upon the relative rate of change of the transmitted signal and the channel characteristics as mentioned above, a channel may be fast fading or slow fading In a fast fading channel, ... Since we assume that the channel remains constant over the observation period, we can always approximate the channel gain to an arbitrary constant value, Ci ≈ C The data vector is given as bi = ... at finger m (CohDetk,m ) 3.3 Parallel Interference Cancellation 3.3 35 Parallel Interference Cancellation This popular method for interference cancellation was presented by Varanasi and Aazhang...
... differential equation mathematical models and are always an approximation to a real device or system All real systems will change with time due to age and environmental changes and may only operate reasonably ... conclusion, a mathematical model of a linear dynamical system may be a differential equation, a transfer function or a state space representation A state space representation has a unique transfer ... from an initial state can be plotted in an x1-x2 plane, known asa phase plane with time a parameter on the solution trajectory Equation (2.17) is a state equation and (2.18) an output equation and...
... strategic ways marketers can approach them to guarantee success for growing brand awareness, fostering brand advocacy and generating leads and sales 34 The State of Social Media Marketing Detailed ... social age Socially mature brands are adopting social CRM at a higher rate; brands with a social marketing budget of over $100,000 have a social CRM adoption rate of 44%, with an additional 26% ... 61% Percentage 16 The State of Social Media Marketing Major Findings Social Targeting Social media leaders are adding additional social channels to address and engage niche target audiences more...
... Melbourne Postgraduate Research Scholarship and a Universitas 21 Solander Travel Scholarship Richard H Osborne was supported in part by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council ... published standards for minimal "clinically and socially relevant" change in group scores asa measure of MCIC at a group level [36] The standards for clinically and socially relevant changes at a group ... Population Health Career Development Award, a Universitas 21 Solander Travel Fellowship, and aBone and Joint Decade Fellowship Anna Nilsdotter's work was supported by Halmstad Central Hospital Rachelle...
... constructed and the areas under curve (AUC) as well as its 95% confidence interval (95% CI) was estimated by using SPSS statistical software10.0 (SPSS Inc.) The prevalence of osteoporosis was examined across ... F(5) Adler RA(8) 2001 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2004 2003 Asian women Hong Kong women Korea women Taiwan women African-American women Canadian white women Belgian Caucasian women American white men ... osteoporosis in comparing with LS BMD which measured by DXA Data and methods This study is a diagnostic test We analyzed the database of DXA measurement for lumbar spine BMD (LS BMD) from August 1st 2005...
... measured three times FMD was calculated as an increase of vascular diameter (in percentage) from the difference between maximum and baseline brachial artery diameter Data were calculated as absolute ... taken at each site and the average measurement was calculated and used Flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) measurement Ultrasound examination of FMD was performed in the morning after overnight fast, ... ovary syndrome J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004, 89:4588-4593 Kravariti M, Naka KK, Kalantaridou SN, Kazakos N, Katsouras CS, Makrigiannakis A, Paraskevaidis EA, Chrousos GP, Tsatsoulis A, Michalis...