... chapter 2.2 Cellular sources for bone tissue engineering 2.2.1 Cell sources used for bone tissue engineering A reliable cell source in bone tissue engineering should be easily isolated and expanded ... engineering strategy 13 2.2 Cellular sources for bone tissue engineering 15 2.2.1 Cell sources used for bone tissue engineering 15 2.2.2 Sources of MSCs 17 2.3 Scaffolds ... silk solution 92 Figure 4.2: Steps in fabricating silk sponge scaffolds starting from (A) raw silk fibers to (B) degummed silk fibers (C) Silk fibers were dissolved in a ternary solvent...
... also induces long-term gene expression in transduced cells and its persistence is thought to be mostly extrachromosomal [16,21] The lower risk of random genomic integration of AAV in comparison ... either the rat or human bone marrow cells in comparison to the lentiviral and adenoviral vector systems Discussion In this study we performed a comparison between three vector systems (LV, AV, and ... Schepers A, Deutsch MJ, Lipps HJ, Baiker A: Episomal vectors for gene therapy Curr Gene Ther 2008, 8:147-161 17 Yang Y, Jooss KU, Su Q, Ertl HC, Wilson JM: Immune responses to viral antigens versus...
... advice and skillful surgical talent; Assoc Professor Ian Gibson, who has been supportive of my research commitments in providing invaluable advice and resources; Dr Simon Cool (IMB) for his invaluable ... not only provides support for soft tissues and vessels to grow, it also performs a protective role for the organs and soft tissues of the body Specific hard and soft tissues (bone, cartilage, ... when required As a source of mineral ions, it also buffers and regulates the acid-base balance (pH) of the blood by absorbing or releasing ions and salts Bone tissues can also store heavy metals...
... issues We can also assume that the regulator is monitoring closely the solvency of the company and by constraining the investment strategy prevents the company from becoming insolvent For an initial ... born by the policyholders For that reason capital valuation can not be dissociated from the pricing issue For one-period situation, the problem could easily be solved However for multi- period cases, ... discuss some practical issues and analyse a simplified two-period case In Section 5, we focus on the pricing of surrender options and discuss the issue of the policyholder behaviour We end with some...
... efficiency, whose profitability is commonly uncertain, but also the reduction in the environmental impact or in the misused of natural resources implied [2] Despite the fact that the priority of ... insulation, taking advantage of the bioclimatic facilities, or using energy resources different from the conventional ones, like solar energy generation, geothermic heat pumps, or evaporative cooling ... water is provided and evaporated at that temperature Isolation Non-saturated air Saturated state had sat = h1 Tad sat RH = 100 % T1 RH1/ h1 Isolation Water suppy at Tad sat Figure Adiabatic saturation...
... 256M/30G/FDD/DVD Windows 2000 or XP Web-LCT Personal Computer Microsoft Windows 9X, 2000, XP or NT Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later 800x600 pixel resolution (minimum) Pentium II 600 or higher ... LoopStar 800/1600/3600 SONET Access Systems The LoopStar EMS-LCT is intended for small, relatively simple networks It provides users with single-layer management network solutions to the LoopStar ... Windows®-based software application designed to operate in standard client-server-based configurations The system is a scalable platform consisting of a central database/server software application...
... to deteriorate Do not disassemble the product unless it is inevitable to so Do not clean the product with an organic solvent or white kerosene Do not leave the product unpacked over a long period ... Grease 32 cm3 (QZ Lubricator attached to both ends of the ball screw nut) Forced lubrication Comparison Reduced to approx 15000 (cm3) 0.25 cm3/3 min×24 hours×125 days = 15,000 cm3 470 W Wiper Ring ... Overall screw shaft (in mm) With Wiper Ring attached Note QZ Lubricator and Wiper Ring "W" are not sold alone 10 Options for the Ball Screw Precautions on Use QZ Lubricator for the Ball Screw b Handling...
... machines) in Fig The rotor position is normally detected by Hall-effect sensors in the BLDCM drives (Fig 2), whereas a position sensor (such as an encoder) is normally required for the case of PMSM drives ... drives We can find in literature a lot of efforts to reduce the torque ripple Ref [2] - [6] are only some to name Le-Huy, Perret and Feuillit [2] analyzed the torque by using Fourier series and shown ... minimal The currents are however still controlled in the phase current control manner For this raison, we have called the proposed approach Pseudo-vector Control II The configuration of the control...
... STRATEGIC OPTIONS FOR CLIMATE POLICY It is also necessary to know something of the circumstances shaping and constraining the administration’s climate policy Some of these factors are known only to ... system could offer a solution The administration has so far ignored such proposals Domestically, the situation is similar Because effective international GHG limits are so unlikely, American ... remains important, and concern about American diplomatic isolation has, in general, lent European criticism some domestic political traction.29 Some of this sensitivity is probably transitory, a longing...
... reducing SO2 emissions by 1,000 tons per day over a multiday episode reduces PM2.5 by about 2µg/m3 over that episode, on average All the sulfates are PM10, so this holds for that as well 21 Resources ... refineries 1.4 2.3 14 Other industrial sources ± 750 31 34 89 TOTALS ± 800 37 120 160 Source: Rolfe (2002) There are several reasons to believe that stationary source emissions are significantly ... NOx, and SOx emissions are mostly from diesel; carbon monoxide (CO) and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions are mostly from gasoline sources Table 2.3 Estimated Emissions from Mobile Sources...
... and mortality [2,3] To date, some strains of H5 or H7 subtypes fulfilled the defined criteria of high pathogenicity which potentially evolve from low virulent precursors [4] Constant genetic and ... since 1997 [12,13] Recently, vaccines have been introduced in some developing countries as a major control tool to reduce the overwhelming socioeconomic impact of HPAI H5N1 outbreaks in poultry [13] ... and did not excrete any virus in swab samples and/or internal organs in comparison to non-vaccinated birds [173] Also, rFPV expressing the H5, H7 and ChIL-18 genes produced significantly higher...
... category of NOx emission sources at refineries and the second largest source of SO2 emissions Boilers and process heaters accounted for 63% of the NOx and 15% of the SO2 emitted from all refinery ... some refinery sources, such as boilers and cracking units, emissions are monitored continuously using sophisticated equipment that provides a fairly accurate estimate of emissions For other sources, ... permitting proceedings Some states, such as Pennsylvania and Virginia, also have a minor source control technology evaluation requirement New Jersey has a State-of-theArt (SOTA) requirement for...
... revisions, summarized below, also introduced some new issues and options for subsequent phases of the program In July 2003, the program manager asked RAND to examine some of those issues, including ... portion of that work will have been devoted to software, including three out of a planned seven software releases and an extensive facility for software testing If the warfare system were to ... each shipyard will experience some turbulence in demand for shipyard labor, with consequent increase in cost While those transients appear manageable (albeit at some cost), the history of major...
... research; it retains not only options that are on the efficient frontier, but also some that are near enough to that frontier so that we hesitate to delete them in an approximate screening procedure ... effective building blocks but also some additional blocks that add costs but not value BCOT automatically deletes most such redundant options - xiii - Step is also unusual and is a manifestation ... what some might call a “scenario class.” Some of the parameters to which we refer specify details of a scenario (e.g., warning time, level of adversary capability) - 10 - capabilities, so that...
... steam and reduces some waste streams in an environmentally friendly way The non-combusted fraction becomes a hot molten inorganic flow, consisting mostly of sodium carbonate and sodium sulphide ... using waste heat are available as reported by Johansson et al [19] Some dryers allow the use of, for example, hot water at 65–90 °C as a heat source Figure Alternative technologies for biomass ... users also include the residential market and commercial power generation facilities, especially in central Europe Most pellets sold today are produced from sawmill by-products They can also be...
... American Massage Therapy Association and past president of the New Jersey chapter of the AMTA Kevin Chen, PhD, MPH, is an associate professor of psychiatry in the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at ... CAM use was as high as 74% CAM use is also marked in neurological diseases, psychiatric disorders, physical disabilities, psoriasis, diabetes, and other disorders (Wootton & Sparber, 2003) The ... mental health (Miller, 1996), and homeopathy has shown some intriguing promise in treating depression and anxiety (Davidson, Morrison, Shore, Davidson, & Bedayn, 1997) Furthermore, due to compatibility...
... mode of action and application Reference sources for the use of the therapies are found in Chapters 3-16 in Sections and 3, but some relevant sources are also included here Traditional Chinese Medicine ... Focused attention • Disattention to extraneous sounds • Absorption in some activity, image, thought or feeling This state does not have to be induced by someone else, but can be entered quite easily ... that: • • • • Symptoms resolve in the reverse order of their onset Symptoms resolve from above downwards Symptoms resolve from inside outwards The most important organs resolve first Along with...
... perpetuation of some cancers, including the production of pro-angiogenic peptides Thus Western science is now exploring the possibility that both hematological and solid cancer may sometimes be ... Pennisi, 1997; Pert et al., 1998; Song et al., 1998) Acupuncture stimulation of specific points on the body releases neuropeptides (such as somatostatin and vasoactive intestinal peptide) within ... suppresses the immune system and may increase the risk of breast cancer in the so- called Type C personality (Amkraut and Solomon, 1972; Temoshok, 1985; Temoshok and Dreher, 1992) 1.4 Pharmacology...
... 200 sorties per day when undamaged and operating at full efficiency It would produce 200, 150, and 100 sorties each day at the 100, 75, and 50 percent levels of efficiency If it had also absorbed ... is a point of some debate but is essentially irrelevant to our analysis Also, were the Chinese invasion successful, there could be a fifth phase in which the PRC attempts to consolidate its hold ... construction of an open-source database with reasonable effort, while detailed enough to facilitate extensive parametric analyses of the air war For purposes of credibility, we also wanted a model...
... the sources of violence Broadly speaking, these sources fall into four categories: Sectarian violence: violence perpetrated by religious or political groups for political reasons or other reasons ... extraordinarily costly in terms of U.S lives and resources, but will also damage the United States’ credibility and the efficacy of U.S forces It also feeds perceptions around the world that the United ... extraordinarily costly in terms of U.S lives and resources, but will also damage the credibility of the United States and the efficacy of U.S forces It also feeds perceptions around the world that the...