physiologic implications of co2 pneumoperitoneum and minimally invasive methods

... combination of bipolar radiofrequency and cryothermy We made a lesion set of ablation of atrial fibrillation which was different from that of Gillinov’s technique Our technique consists of a combination ... isolation was effective and safe for surgical treatment of chronic atrial fibrillation Conclusions Our technique of a minimally invasive approach with a 7-cm skin incision and partial lower sternotomy ... ablation of atrial fibrillation and minimally invasive mitral valve surgery: a case report Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2010 5:79 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... sequence alignment EH conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination All authors read and approved the final manuscript References In cases of LRM and OSAS where the main etiologic ... lingual mucosal surface of the epiglottis (epiglottopexy), the posterior edges of the epiglottis (epiglottoplasty), and the mucosa of the aryepiglottic fold (aryepiglottoplasty) and the suprarytenoidal ... by Jackson and Jackson in 1942 to designate stridor caused by the indrawing of the supraglottis with inward curling of both sides of the epiglottis, or by the backward projection of an extremely...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... creation of opportunities for the greening of the brick and mortar landscapes of cities, the mitigation of hazard, prospects for bottom-up governance, revitalization of communities and the augmentation ... design and construction of buildings, inadequate protection of assets, lack of public information and awareness, limited official recognition of risks and preparedness measures, and disregard for wise ... the Implications of Hazards, Emergencies and Disasters representing the degree of loss/potential damage of the element at risk (see Table 1) The evaluation of vulnerability and the combination of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 12:20

... National Audit Office Ministry of Defence: the Joint Services Command and Staff College PFI HC 537, session 2001-2002, February 2002, p.24 23 Office of Government Commerce Standardisation of PFI contracts ... provides an example of the political realities of risk transfer in the context of a high profile, essential service The fact that compensation was waived and the allocation of the costs of failure negotiable ... Private Gain? and 42 their passengers.96 And the workforce bore risks in the form of support staff and management cuts of 20% The general public assumed risk through the cancellation of half of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... Characteristics of the Panel and Full Samples Incidence of No and Full Limitations by Domain of Physical Functioning Correlation of Scores for Domains of Physical Functioning Disability and Physical ... Measures of Disability and Physical Functioning Correlations of Alternative Measures of Disability to Official Disability Status Probability of Having Official Disability Status Consumption and Disability: ... Predictors of Less-than-Good Health Status Predictors of Employment Predictors of Less-than-Good Health Status of Males Predictors of Less-than-Good Health Status of Females Predictors of Employment of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... first part of the frame is related to a contention phase and consists of several pairs of minislots Each minislot is divided into the transmission of an RTS and a CTS signal The second part of the ... 11times increase of bandwidth In the 802.11b protocol, the same spreading gain of 11 is applied against out-ofband interferers However, PBOA assumes only a single band transmission and is thus naturally ... will go to backoff and turn into a potential receiving node until the end of the frame with the probability of - p In Figure T 1, T and T3 are not successful during the first minislot of the contention...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... characterisation, physiological and agronomic studies However, considerable gaps exist in the assessment of biodiversity effects, and how non-target organisms would be impacted by GM crop cultivation Landscape ... Ministry of Education and Research Received: 24 January 2011 Accepted: February 2011 Published: February 2011 doi:10.1186/2190-4715-23-2 Cite this article as: Schmidt and Schröder: Implications of ... assessment to in-context trajectory evaluation: GMOs and their social implications Vincenzo Pavone, Joanna Goven, Riccardo Guarino Systemic risks of genetically modified crops: the need for new approaches...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... (c) Changes of domain combination networks and union networks in lineages of S cerevisiae and H sapiens during evolution Bold and dashed lines indicate γ of domain combination networks and union ... Hierarchical classification and the numbers of domains and domain combinations found in each species Hierarchical classification of eukaryote groups and results for assignment of Pfam domains are summarized ... degree of a node) The degree distributions of combination networks of all domains in Homo sapiens, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, A thaliana, and T cruzi are shown in Figure 5a, and the values of γ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... Main findings 5.1.1 Significant effect of combined CO2 laser and DSF in inhibiting enamel and root demineralization 63 5.1.2 Combination of CO2 laser and DSF – A promising method in caries ... demineralization of enamel and root has not been investigated yet The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of CO2 laser combined with 38% DSF treatment on enamel and root demineralization Methods: ... (CO2 laser), 614.37±4.84 (DSF +CO2 laser) in root CO2 Laser and DSF had a statistically significant effect on lesion depth in enamel and root (all p

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 19:03

... University of Maryland and co-author with Kenneth Rogoff of This Time Is Different, the reaction was typical In her book, she traces the history of financial crises across 800 years and finds ... information and research arm of The Economist Group, publisher of The Economist Through its global network of 650 analysts, it continuously assesses and forecasts political, economic and business ... This environment of high frequency change and evolution is challenging institutional investors and corporate executives to understand, as never before, the derivative implications of complex global...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:22

... expression of an underlying unobservable continuous variable directly Within this general framework, knowledge of the value of normal probability if often required and consequently the scope of corresponding ... computation of n B different probabilities (which are integrals of dimension n) and their deriva; (r = - &dquo; II /./ II B.=i 1)l tives - - Selection often involves a limited number of candidates, ... exhaustive, reveals the availability methods that take into account the normality of the distribution : A review of the of general (1941) [Computation of sums of convergent tetrachoric series] IMPSON...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... plots of land are being selected, the assignment of different experimental conditions to the plots of land should be done randomly, by the use of a table of random numbers or some other randomizing ... controlled in the design of the experiment Considerations of random sampling and the selection of appropriate control variables to increase precision of the experiment and insure a more accurate ... requirement of the t-test To understand the nature of T2 in the single sample case, consider a single random variable made up of any linear combination of the n variables in the vector X (all of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 20:20

... tissues can be the result of either a high rate of testicular synthesis of androstenone or /and a low rate of hepatic degradation (Robic et al., 2008) One of the widely practiced methods to reduce boar ... enzmes involved in androstenone synthesis is given in Figure 2.6 3α-androstenol and 3β-androstenol are the final metabolites of androstenone in both testis and liver In liver, androstenone under ... understand androstenone metabolism is that none of the studies tried to visualize the mechanism of androstenone biosynthesis or metabolism as the result of multifaceted cellular mechanisms and tried...

Ngày tải lên: 25/11/2015, 13:26

... Comparison of a minimally invasive posterior approach and the standard posterior approach for total hip arthroplasty A prospective and comparative study Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research ... mini-posterior approach and the standard posterior approach weeks after implantation of hip endoprostheses [11,36] A weakness of this study is clearly the lack of any randomization of the patients which ... a function of the degree of muscle trauma at all This and previous studies have shown that the minimally invasive technique results in a reproducibly good positioning of the implant and optimal...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... lower M reduces the upward migration of CO2 [7], and (3) injection of brine into the aquifer with or after CO2 injection can accelerate the dissolution of CO2 and enhance its residual trapping by ... the mobility, viscosity, and relative permeability of the non-wetting phase (CO2) respectively and mw, µw, and krw are the mobility, viscosity, and relative permeability of the wetting phase (brine) ... typical lifespan of a PC power plant is around 30 years Thus, a total of 0.822 million metric tons of CO2 will be sequestered During the 600 days of injection, 20 cycles of alternating CO2- water slugs...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... the Bank of England, the Group of Thirty, the Of ce of the U.S Comptroller of the Currency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and, most recently, the U.S Government Accounting Of ce (GAO) ... percent of the dealers’ $6.5 trillion of notional outstandings.18 Table NOTIONAL PRINCIPAL OF INTEREST RATE AND CURRENCY SWAPS WRITTEN ANNUALLY BY UNDERLYING AND OUTSTANDING Billions of U.S Dollars ... and regulated, derivatives can facilitate the management of risk and increase the long-term viability of banks and the financial system ENDNOTES Franklin R Edwards is Arthur Burns Professor of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... AC and an IRGA The rate of change of CO2 concentration in the chamber is used to derive the flux of CO2 across the ground surface at the point of measurement (LBNL, 2004) The NETL Office of Research ... understanding of CO2 GS, MVA technology and cost, and regulations through field testing of GS technologies A major portion of DOE’s Core R&D is aimed at providing an accurate accounting of stored CO2 ... lapse image of CO2 plume migration and to detect significant leakage and migration of CO2 from the storage site International projects, including Sleipner, CO2SINK, and Weyburn, and selected...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... of work in progress All RAND occasional papers undergo rigorous peer review to ensure that they meet high standards for research quality and objectivity The Legal and Economic Implications of ... cost data, and an evaluation of early indicators such as numbers of sanctions and the form of e-discovery requests and required productions Assessment of Effects of E-Discovery on Business Practices ... review of emerging technologies likely to affect the e-discovery cost-benefit calculus Based on a literature review and interviews of hardware and software vendors, the technology landscape of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20

... To understand some of the challenges facing China in the implementation and enforcement of its environmental laws, it is important to first understand the Chinese system of government and the dynamics ... standards and must report their standards to the State Council.80 Using the WEQ standards and the country’s economic and technological conditions, the State Council shall establish national standards ... variety of rules and regulations Nationally, these include the Implementing Rules on the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution36 and the Interim Measures on the Management of Water...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... 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