poly caprolactone as biomaterials in biomedical applications

... segment consisting of polyols creates the continuous phase while the hard segment remains dispersed and acts as physical cross-linking points The switching segments can be either crystalline or amorphous ... Chromatography HD 1,6-hexanediol Lipase CA Candida antarctica lipase Lipase CR Candida rugosa lipase Lipase PC Pseudomonas cepacia Lipase Lipase CC Candida cylindracea lipase MDI 4,4'-Methylenediphenyl ... processing due to the high molecular interaction, physically cross-linked thermoplastics are more attractive since the easy processing technology is becoming more and more important in SMP industry...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:58

... straightforward approach for integrating the qualitative and quantitative findings in meaningful interpretations An Atlas in the final section of this book complements Chapter by providing interpretive practice ... have dysfunction in higher-level activities but intact basic functions such as eating and maintaining personal hygiene and grooming, because these basic activities often remain normal until later ... Neuroimaging in Clinical Evaluations Innovations in neuroimaging techniques and tracer development hold promise for new clinical applications Brain imaging will play an important role in the development...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... evidence to indicate that the patient was injected with FDG during a period of iatrogenic hypoglycemia induced by administration of insulin in the setting of a falsely elevated BGL reading Based on ... terminals innervating WAT [21] Catecholamines also activate brown fat with beta-blockers having been advocated as an intervention to reduce this confounding finding on FDG PET in predisposed individuals ... administration of insulin This is different than the characteristic pattern of diffuse muscular uptake visualized in hyperinsulinemic patients, during hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamping or following oral...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... uptake was seen in the milimetric lung nodules detected by CT No clinically evident metastasis was seen in the clinical follow up or increase in size was detected in the following control CT examinations ... metastasis was 22 (91%) (Kappa:0.75), distant lymph node metastasis was 19 (79%) (Kappa:0.31), lung metastasis was 18 (75%) (Kappa:0.42), bone metastasis was 21 (87%) (Kappa:0.33) and intestinal ... while a single focus of liver metastasis was reported on CT, PET/CT revealed multiple metastasis in the liver with SUVmax:8.9 In this case PET/CT was helpful in detecting the new metastatic foci...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... approximately 45 minutes before receiving an intravenous injection of 440 MBq of 18F-FDG Scanning began 60 minutes later A combined PET/CT in- line system (Biograph LSD, Siemens, Knoxville, TN) was used ... tumor is indicated by pancreatic or duodenal invasion requiring pancreaticoduodenectomy, or invasion into the root of the mesocolon Cases with only one modality of PET/CT and CT showing metastatic ... CT finding PET/CT finding Primary SUV Local LN SUV Additional study Other uptake Lung metastasis 2.97 2.97 Lung, Bone Peritoneal seeding Liver metastasis 6.81 5.44 Mesentery Peritoneal seeding...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:22

... Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma ... was calculated using the following formula: SUV = lung cancer activity/(dose/lean body mass) (2) The maximum SUV (SUVmax) was obtained by selecting volumetric regions of interest (VOIs) within ... mediastinal Hodgkin disease Blood 2001, 98:2930-2934 Mikhaeel NG, Timothy AR, O'Doherty MJ, Hain S, Maisey MN: 18FDG-PET as a prognostic indicator in the treatment of aggressive Non-Hodgkin's...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... teaching, and learning approach - Over-easiness: Teachers find it too easy to follow the textbook uncritically instead of using their initiatives; they may find themselves functioning merely as ... The in- use evaluation involves measuring the value of materials whilst using them or whilst observing them Tomlinson (2003) has listed some basic points that can be taken in to consideration in ... “acquiring and assessing information” rather than assessing worth or merit because all evaluation work involves collecting and sifting through data, making judgments about the validity of the information...

Ngày tải lên: 19/07/2015, 18:52

... continuous Past perfect continuous They complained, "We have been waiting for hours" They complained that they had been waiting for hours Past continuous Past perfect continuous "We were living in ... American?" He asked me whether I was British or American "Is it raining?" She asked if it was raining "Have you got a computer?" He wanted to know whether I had a computer "Can you type?" She asked if ... arrive?" she asked She asked what time the train arrived "When can we have dinner?" she asked She asked when they could have dinner Peter said to John, "Why are you so late?" Peter asked the John...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2013, 07:11

... baseline levels of the outcomes of interest will be assessed for the outcome measures by adding terms for the interaction between age, educational level, personality, type of cancer and baseline ... different time points will also be investigated [38] Missing outcome data will be assumed to be ‘missing at random’ (MAR), conditional on key predictors of ‘missingness’ (in particular baseline values ... questionnaire contains the following scales: (a) Information about the disease; (b) Information about medical tests; (c) Information about treatment; (d) Information on other services, and single items:...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... not received any training in the past year or that the training was insufficient in such areas as using various instructional methods, teaching their subject matter, and planning lessons more effectively ... of Subdistricts Providing SBM-Related Training to Principals, by Type of Training, 2010 104 5.4 Percentage of Principals Receiving Training, by Number of Training Days, 2009–2010 ... briefing of preliminary survey results held in Jakarta provided useful insights on interpreting our early findings and first planted the idea of conducting an in- depth case study to help in this...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... dashes out of a window, springs into a well, and, after having struggled in the water for a few moments, rises from it, dripping, and invested with a goatskin which the devil has given him In ... found hyổnas with these rings in their ears, even among the beasts which he has shot or speared himself But how the rings got into their ears is more than Coffin was able to ascertain Beside ... reduced to tiny ribands In another moment he is again in pursuit foaming at the mouth, and howling dismally, whilst his red eyes gleam like burning coals As he gains on her, she casts behind her...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... monthly income in women was US$ 213, and in men it was US$ 379), and this was in line with the reported occupational disparity For a simple question about having adequate or inadequate financial ... = 879) 100 a b Financial means was assessed by asking participants if they had enough money to meet daily living expenses Crowding was calculated as the number of people living in the household ... social well-being as well as physical aspects (5) Self-reported health status has been widely used in censuses, surveys, and observational studies as a succinct measure that may encompass these subjective...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... be directly associated with pathogen clearance For instance, adenoregulin [dermaseptin B2 (DRS-B2)] was first identified as a peptide able to stimulate binding of agonists to A1-adenosine receptors ... cytoplasmic b-galactosidase, resulting in a color change from clear to yellow, reflecting membrane damage As shown in Fig 5A, the time needed to obtain the maximum Gal-ONp hydrolysis in E coli increased ... 100), which is within the same range of order as the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for Gram-negative strains Increasing concentrations of DRS-DA4 broadened the DMPG main phase transition...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... meaning doing something that wasn't good enough, while two others interpreted it as doing something "bad" that was worthy of punishment., and the remaining children defined it as "feeling bad" ... the questionnaire, including increasing the font size for ease of readability, shortening the instructions, and putting the recall period in bold type For some children, certain items were not ... defined "go out" as going outside to something or to play outside This resulted in some of the children factoring the weather into the state of their asthma Another kid interpreted "go out" as...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... that the Index scores generated using the original baseline data (original baseline: 75.0; then-test baseline: 69.2, p < 001) When Index scores at months were compared with the baseline scores ... and in response to changing circumstances [4] Individualised measures of QoL (IQoL) increase respondents' discretion in selecting the domains most important to their QoL and, in determining the ... important in repeated measures trials where efficacy is measured as the change from a pre-treatment baseline following treatment QoL is highly individual with patients varying considerably in what...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Cure" was defined as negative culture plus negative KOH Cure status was determined at each clinic visit Improvement ("Improved") was defined as a positive change in the amount of clearing from baseline ... strong responsive measures Clinical meaningfulness is a way of translating a difference in a PRO measure into a difference in a clinical measure In this study, target nail clearing and new nail ... Cure was designated in three ways "Complete Cure" was defined as a negative culture and negative KOH, plus 100% clearing of the target nail "Clinical Cure" was defined as ≥ 87.5% clearing of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... cases multiple codes were applied The involvement of moderators in this coding task was a significant alteration in their usual qualitative activities As indicated by '**' coding categories in ... developed based on the most commonly occurring coding themes During item design, the original IFG transcripts were revisited to assure that wording, phraseology and concepts in the new assessments ... result in the use of leading or restrictive lines of inquiry Facilitator Role as Co-investigator - Facilitators' professional role can be expanded to include thematic research activities, including...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... preference-based instruments, which incorporate broad domains covering all aspects of QOL Furthermore, most items in the investigated instruments, except those in the HUI2/3, incorporate aspects of coping ... and Clinical Information Data pertaining to the patients’ socio-demographic information were obtained using a self-administered questionnaire The patient’s cancer status, in terms of disease stage ... generic preference-based instruments in terms of their ability to distinguish between different measures of cancer severity Disease severity was measured in three ways: cancer stage; Eastern Cooperative...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... questionnaire was subsequently tested in dry eye subjects in the US and Canada in an individual interview setting Half of the subjects in this phase had been involved in the focus groups and the remaining ... patients’ assessment [17], particularly among the elderly and women An incidence study in the elderly showed a 21.6% increase in dry eye over a ten-year period, which increased with age and was greater ... validity was assessed by examining differences in IDEEL baseline scores for groups of patients with different levels of dry eye severity for each severity assessment method Three types of severity assessments...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... methodology of achieving the meaningfulness of PRO scores, estimating the MID, or interpreting these scores This is part of the reason why interpreting PRO measures is indeed a demanding task A possible ... results in a meaningful reduction in symptoms or improvement in function In contrast, a change in mean score of a magnitude that would be trivial in an individual (e.g., mm Hg reduction in blood ... changes in health-related quality-of-life scores J Clin Oncol 1998, 16(1):139-144 Best WR, Becktel JM: The Crohn's disease activity index as a clinical instrument In Developments in Gastroenterology:...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20