robotic technology in spine surgery current applications and future developments

... neurologists, engineers and scientists - in the field of neural signal processing and biomedical engineering This book is organized into 18 chapters, covering the current theoretical and practical ... De Luca and his team (De Luca, 1982) They observed this common behaviour of MUs on FDI and deltoid muscles during sustained, linearly increasing and linearly decreasing contractions, and called ... straightforwardly defines the order in which these motor units will be recruited with increasing excitation and decruited with decreasing excitation The model, explained in (Fuglevand, 1993) and applied in other...

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... farms in Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces and hatcheries in Ca Mau and Khanh Hoa provinces during 2005 The promotion activities conducted under these various projects have included: • Training on ... aid in facilitating this process GAP and BMP should be promoted through a widespread training and awareness raising programme, with SUDA working closely in supporting NCAFE to develop “Training ... training to replicate GAP in other shrimp farming zones of Ben Tre and Kien Giang provinces In September 2006, NAFIQAVED and regional centers No 4, 5, and field-tested and drafted Technical Standards...

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... selection (staging, evaluation of co-morbidities) is indispensable Minimally invasive oesophageal surgery is evolving and may become increasingly important Still, it is hard to imagine that the ... PET/CT for therapy monitoring in oesophageal cancer is the subject of intense discussion, underlining the need for randomized multicentre studies Summary In summary, the following therapeutic strategies ... Essen-Mitte, Germany 3Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Germany 4Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Rostock,...

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... Sensor and Actuator Solutions emerging business unit in place - leading RFID initiatives for IBM Consulting partner for leading industry players Wireless Broadband & Sensing Solutions ibm.com/industries/wireless/ ... and safety, Applications Patient ID and tracking, Maintaining shelf stock, Innovative payments, Return Wireless Broadband & Sensing Solutions Purchase maintenance management, ibm.com/industries/wireless/ ... Access Control Includes: Access control and tracking, Animal tracking, Automobile ignition security, Baggage handling systems, Inventory control, Parking lot security and access, Shoplifting prevention,...

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... (mainly causes by calcineurin inhibitors - CNI), and rejection In general, imaging tools in evaluating MC following renal transplantation are non-specific [24-26] The major role of imaging in ... dysfunction due to inflammation T-cell-mediated rejection can also present as an increasing creatinine level and 31 32 Current Issues and Future Direction in Kidney Transplantation diminished urinary output ... coordinators and transplant programs In the event of a significant intercurrent illness that may necessitate delisting or placing candidates on hold, pertinent medical records should be obtained and...

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... (mainly causes by calcineurin inhibitors - CNI), and rejection In general, imaging tools in evaluating MC following renal transplantation are non-specific [24-26] The major role of imaging in ... dysfunction due to inflammation T-cell-mediated rejection can also present as an increasing creatinine level and 31 32 Current Issues and Future Direction in Kidney Transplantation diminished urinary output ... coordinators and transplant programs In the event of a significant intercurrent illness that may necessitate delisting or placing candidates on hold, pertinent medical records should be obtained and...

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... resources in England and Wales – current state and future pressures Using water in England and Wales 3.1 Using freshwater resources One way to consider how much we use water resources in England and ... licences in England and Wales Environment Agency Water resources in England and Wales – current state and future pressures Supplying people with water 4.1 Current pressures Where people live in England ... Water resources in England and Wales – current state and future pressures Contents Introduction Available water 2.1 Freshwater resources Using water in England and Wales 3.1 Using freshwater resources...

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... understood in this way: This amount of money is used to cover three kinds of cost, including initial investment in research, building, and buying machines, maintenance cost, and administration ... competitive authorities including Ministry of Industry and Trading (MoIT), Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI), Ministry of Finance (MoF) and State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) MoIT and its Electricity ... a certain amount of energy Wind makes wings of turbines in wind – farm rotate at a specific speed It means turbines and the electricity generators inside are activated by wind (Vinamain, 2011)...

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... Paclitaxel-carboplatin-gemcitabine triplet was investigated in two phase II trials involving patients in the first line in one trial, and in 1st/2nd lines in another trial ORRs and CR were equal to 43-68%, and ... failure of imatinib Sunitinib has been tested in bladder cancer as single agent, in combination with chemotherapy, and in maintenance, and showed an interesting antitumor activity [67-71] In a phase ... are inferior to the standard MVAC and should not be used in first-line Carboplatin-based combinations are inferior to cisplatin based regimens and should be only used in unfit patients The platinum-free...

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... explicit the chain of events, actions, processing and decisions linking the patient and the clinician The various links in this chain may include the following: data acquisition using an appropriate ... response, occur in the clinician’s brain The advance of technology, with the final stage of remote monitoring, has separated the various links in the chain between measuring and acting, and made explicit ... early warning scoring system for detecting developing critical illness Clin Intensive Care 1997, 8:100 14 Tarassenko L, Hann A, Young D: Integrated monitoring and analysis for early warning of patient...

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... use These include the decline and fluctuation of wild stocks harvested for fishmeal production due to overfishing and natural environmental factors, instability and predicted increases in fishmeal ... used in whitefish farming In the soybean meal (SBM) diet, 50% of the dietary protein was replaced with SBMderived protein This diet represents a realistic future diet Methionine, lysine and phosphorus ... broodstock was established in 1998 by mating 50 wild males and 150 wild females originating from the Kokemäki River, Finland In October 2003, the generation for the current experiment was established:...

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... clearly unsustainable pattern, Goodstein notes In that "no discoveries, past, present, or future, are going to keep up with demand."6 As third world countries such as China and India industrialize ... social and economic systems in order to determine the most suitable approach to integration of biogas use in the U.S This paper begins by examining the background and history of biogas and its ... 1.17.2006 applications are continually accepted for grants "supporting basic energy science research in the natural sciences and engineering areas, leading to new and improved energy technologies and...

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... tests in generating a testing strategy in which the most sensitive end 1042 points are combined in a well-informed selection of alternative assays Applying such a 1043 strategy in a tiered screening ... receptor binding 699 tests is in preparation 700 Another important receptor for the endocrine system is the androgen receptor Androgens are 701 mainly concerned in the development and maintenance ... hazard in humans [25] 460 According to the American Society for Testing and Methods (ASTM) guidelines [26], 461 fertilized eggs in the mid- to late-blastula stage are incubated in media containing...

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... coordination and collaboration in large, interagency programs and implications for today's issues; and • Career lessons, examining the incentives and disincentives for managers to participate in ... by lowering pH, decreasing acidneutralizing capacity, and increasing concentrations of dissolved inorganic aluminum In affected waterbodies, such changes have resulted in a reduction in both ... accelerating the leaching of available base cations, enhancing the accumulation of sulfur and nitrogen, and increasing the concentration of dissolved inorganic aluminum in soil water Driscoll and...

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... something of a turning point in [machine translation]." Currently, about 20 CEC translators in Luxambourg are using SYSTRAN on a Siamens 7740 computer for routine translation; one factor accounting ... Several co-ordinating c ~ i t t e e s are working with the various language and emphasis groups to insure co-operation Intended as a multi-lingual system involving English, French, German and Russian, ... reasons relating to expending effort on software rather than linguistic rules]" [Vasconcellos, 83] Actual work started in 1976, and the first prototype was running in 1979, using punched card input...

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... measure an individual’s degree of functioning in regard to basic activities such as walking a given distance, climbing stairs, reading a newspaper, hearing a voice on the telephone and cutting up ... healthy and living actively and independently in their communities There is, however, a minority of the elderly population, and the proportion increases after age 75, whose activities are limited and ... Ottawa: Minister of Industry; 1991 17 Statistics Canada The Survey on Ageing and Independence Ottawa: Minister of Industry; 1991 Cat no H88-3/13-1993E 18 Moore EG, Rosenberg MW, McGuinness D Growing...

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... Thus, these two scenarios, that of maintaining the current medical student quota which has been in place since the 2007 increase (LDP), and that of increasing the quota by an additional 50% (DPJ), ... following scenarios Scenario 1: Maintaining the current medical student quota (8848 per year) Scenario 2: Increasing the quota by 50%, starting in 2013, as promised by the DPJ Methods Modeling ... of the following two scenarios: Scenario 1: Maintaining the current medical student quota established by the LDP (i.e 7625 through 2007 and 8848 starting in 2008) Scenario 2: Increasing the quota...

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... dysfunction in the ICU remains elusive [17] Serum creatinine concentrations and creatinine clearance are unreliable indicators for acute and abrupt changes in kidney function [27] Serum creatinine only ... an apoptotic-inflammatory AKI, the administration of caspase inhibitors (CI) gains increasing interest Indeed, CI ameliorate ischemia-reperfusion injury in different organs, including the kidneys ... Anticoagulation remains the topic of continuous development and research, in particular since the introduction of citrate and upcoming dedicated machines Unfractionated heparin (UFH) remains the most...

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... operate in any kind of handoff regardless of whether it implies a change of technology (intra/inter -technology) , network (intra/inter-network), administrative domain (intra/inter-domain) or type ... – Current Status and Future Trends engineering task is valuable to optimize the network resources such as links, routing and processing capacity One important issue in the traffic engineering ... planning and forecast the network needs in terms of growth and applications demands In other way, the main question is how to deliver the required level of service for all kind of applications using...

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... expression levels in melanocytes Ectopically expressing miR-211 in different melanoma cell lines caused significant growth inhibition and reduced invasiveness by cleaving the mRNA and inhibiting the translation ... impeded invasion and triggered apoptosis of melanoma cells MiR-340 is capable of causing mRNA degradation by interacting with its 3'-UTR of MTIF Interestingly, the RNA-binding protein coding region ... genistein, an isoflavone isolated from soybeans, inhibited human uveal melanoma cells growth in vitro and in vivo and altered the expression of miR27a and its target gene zinc finger and BTB domain...

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