... persons and procedures to • deal with individuals' or institutional financial interestsin research or verify the absence of such interestsand • address institutional financial interestsin research ... institution's financial interest ! Including individuals from outside the institution in the review and oversight of financial interestsin research ! Establishing policies regarding the types of financial ... financial relationships and the financial interests they create, may affect the rights and welfare of human subjects in research Financial interests are not prohibited, and not all financial interests...
... Lockheed Martin Second-tier contractors sell to the first tier, and so forth 8 Assembling and Supporting the JSF in the United Kingdom out in the JSF Engineering and Manufacturing Development ... assembly During tail installation/subsystems mate, the remaining systems are installed, and the vertical tails and horizontal stabilisers and main landing gear access doors are also installed The ... Assembling and Supporting the JSF in the United Kingdom Synergies Between Repair and FACO FACO and maintenance, repair, and upgrade (MR&U) tasks overlap Advantages and disadvantages of doing both...
... 3.7% in Ninh Binh, and 0.9% in Hoa Binh province Table Distribution of traditional production villages by the industrial production branchesin five provinces Province Ha Noi Ha Nam Nam Dinh Ninh ... locate in Hanoi, 10% in Nam Dinh, 5% in Ninh Binh, N.X Anh et al / VNU Journal of Science, Earth Sciences 26 (2010) 1-7 4% in Ha Nam and 2% in Hoa Binh province [5] Important industrial zones in ... different industrial branchesin the Day-Nhue river basin were shown in the table [4] Table Percentage (%) of some main industrial branchesin the basin STT Industrial branches Mechanics Food processing...
... region and of U.S and other nations’ interestsin Central Asia It concludes that the United States has real and significant interestsin xiii xiv U.S Interestsin Central Asia: Policy Priorities and ... OEF itself In the longer term, U.S interestsin Central Asia stem from the increasing recognition in policymaking circles that instability, failed and failing states, and economic and political ... country, creating concerns that this could happen again “Official: Defining U.S Interestsin Central Asia 17 Turkmenistan is unique in providing access but showing little interest in building a relationship...
... SFO and channel distortions was examined and explored to develop a turbo joint channel estimation, synchronization, and decoding scheme and a vector RLS-based joint CFO, SFO, and CIR tracking ... Vector RLS-Based Joint Tracking of CIR, CFO, and SFO (18) Due to the nonlinear effects of CFO and SFO on the received samples as shown by (10) in both time and frequency domains, the joint estimation ... the turbo joint tracking of CIR, CFO, and SFO The coarse CIR estimation is performed by using the vector RLS algorithm and the first long training symbols with the available CFO and SFO initial...
... parameters/settings and dynamically chooses one to encode each successive symbol according to a random sequence In contrast, standard entropy coding has only one parameters/settings in the entire encoding ... estimation in an adaptive QM coder is determined by an internal state machine and changes according to the state and current input (ii) The second type of parameters has nothing to with coding efficiency ... is the coding convention in arithmetic coding In binary arithmetic coding, there are two possible symbol orderings (i.e., the LPS subinterval above the MPS subinterval, or the MPS subinterval...
... parameters/settings and dynamically chooses one to encode each successive symbol according to a random sequence In contrast, standard entropy coding has only one parameters/settings in the entire encoding ... estimation in an adaptive QM coder is determined by an internal state machine and changes according to the state and current input (ii) The second type of parameters has nothing to with coding efficiency ... is the coding convention in arithmetic coding In binary arithmetic coding, there are two possible symbol orderings (i.e., the LPS subinterval above the MPS subinterval, or the MPS subinterval...
... by using different rejection thresholds for new and handoff calls In the second implementation, both new and handoff calls can be downgraded to accommodate an incoming new (or handoff) call In this ... Communications and Networking The nonnegative integer mi, j denotes the number of ongoing new class-i calls in RAT- j, and the nonnegative integer ni, j denotes the number of ongoing handoff class-i calls in ... adapting the bandwidth of existing call an (or ah ) = − j means accept the new class-i i i (or handoff class-i) call into RAT- j after adapting (degrading) the bandwidth of existing call(s) In the...
... particular, in the case when the output y corresponds to the ˙ joint position q and velocity q, we refer to the control objectives as “position control injoint coordinates” and “motion control injoint ... coordinates in the workspace Then, following the socalled method of inverse kinematics one may obtain a time-parameterized trajectory for the joint coordinates The control design consists in solving ... of links interconnected through hinges or joints that allow a relative movement between two consecutive links The movement of each joint may be prismatic, revolute or a combination of both In...
... annual rainfall averaging 930 mm (1951-1990) The Bray and L sites were even-aged maritime pine stands originating from row seeding, with an understorey consisting mainly of Molinia (Molinia coerulea ... fittings for each stand But looking at each stand separately, it resulted in overestimating the needle area of the younger stand branchesand underestimating the branch area of the older stand ... sampled 19 trees in 1990 and Maritime pine foliage area 14 trees in 1995, according to their diameter at breast height (DBH, cm) and 30 trees in 1997 according to their height In winter time (late...
... collagen in fibrocartilaginous tissues from different sites, including the pubic symphysis and synovial joints These findings also suggest that in fibrocartilaginous tissues, including the TMJ disc and ... causes the targeted induction of collagenase-1 and stromelysin-1 in synovial jointand pubic symphysis fibrocartilages but not in articular cartilage This induction of MMPs injoint fibrocartilage ... assays and analysis in which MMP inhibitors were used TTD performed all experiments to characterize the changes in MMPs and GAGs injoint fibrocartilage in response to relaxin and β-estradiol GH and...
... found in joints during the first week of transfer, and a second cell transfer was needed to induce a significant influx of lymphocytes into the joints and cause subsequent inflammation In this ... expression in with genes and chronic arthritis, in mice inflamed joints, in paws with acute and chronic arthritis, in comparison with gene expression in normal paws of naive BALB/cSCID mice Values indicate ... downregulated in the pre-inflamed joint but returned to a 'normal' level (as expressed in naive paws) during arthritis progression Clusters E and F included genes encoding Terf1-interacting nuclear...
... Histological findings in synovial tissue and articular cartilage: haematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining (a, c, e, g, and h) for acute inflammation (arrowheads), chronic inflammation (*), and cartilage ... between the right knee joints and left knee joints of AIA rats, or between the right knee joint of AIA rats and the right knee joint of non-arthritic animals (Fig 5; Safranin O staining data not shown) ... absence (score 0) of fibrin exudation in the joint space and periarticular inflammation was assessed, resulting in a maximum total score of for acute inflammation Chronic joint inflammation – based...
... Proteinases injoint destruction Shown are the proteinases that are involved in the joint destruction that occurs in (a) osteoarthritis and (b) rheumatoid arthritis ADAM, a disintegrin and metalloproteinase-like; ... products, such as fibronectin fragments, are released into the joint fluid and irritate the synovial membrane lining in the joint space The resulting synovitis provokes release of inflammatory mediators ... are leucine-rich proteoglycans, including decorin, fibromodulin and biglycan [32] Cartilage and bone turnover is a complex process in which proteinases play a prominent role in health and disease...
... inflammation and cartilage degradation were inhibited by blocking IL-1β but not IL-1α In RA patients, IL-1β is overexpressed in inflamed synovial tissue, in particular in the lining layer andin sublining ... before randomization; active disease at screening; baseline evaluation (same evaluator) indicating more than six tender and six swollen joints out of 28 examined (including any effused joint) ; and ... cells injected into one knee joint Whereas IL-1β driven inflammation becomes apparent after 24 hours and leads to total destruction of the joint within to 10 days, controlateral joints or joints...
... staining pattern in mouse knee joint was influenced by disease severity Mild inflammation (Figure 5a) was associated with discrete BMP7 staining in the lining layer of synovium (Figure 5b) andin ... morphogenetic protein signaling injoint homeostasis and disease Cytokine Growth Factor Rev 2005, 16:287-298 Sancho E, Batlle E, Clevers H: Signaling pathways in intestinal development and cancer Annu ... shown Severity scoring was done on sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin Boxes indicate areas that are magnified in BMP2 stainings Arrows indicate BMP2-positive cells in synovium Bars =...
... disciplines such as electrical engineering, mechatronics, cybernetics, computer science, mechanical engineering and applied mathematics As a result, courses on robotics continue to gain interest and, ... knowledge of different disciplines Among these, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, computer science and applied mathematics Hence, robotics incorporates a variety ... of links interconnected through hinges or joints that allow a relative movement between two consecutive links The movement of each joint may be prismatic, revolute or a combination of both In...
... particular, in the case when the output y corresponds to the ˙ joint position q and velocity q, we refer to the control objectives as “position control injoint coordinates” and “motion control injoint ... coordinates in the workspace Then, following the socalled method of inverse kinematics one may obtain a time-parameterized trajectory for the joint coordinates The control design consists in solving ... planning consists in determining a curve in the state space, connecting the initial and final desired posture of the end-effector, while avoiding any obstacle Trajectory generation consists in parameterizing...
... consider robot manipulators formed by an open kinematic chain as illustrated in Figure 3.1 q3 z0 z2 link joint link joint q1 joint n z3 q2 z1 zn link n qn ⎡ ⎤ x1 ⎢x2⎥ x = ⎣.⎦ xm y0 x0 Figure ... model injoint space, while (3.2) corresponds to the dynamic model in operational space In this text, we focus on the dynamic model injoint space and, for simplicity, we omit the words injoint ... ith joint is revolute, or to the linear displacement along zi if the ith joint is prismatic In the typical case where the actuators are placed at the joints among the links, the generalized joint...
... to maintain an operating point involving high and medium-high constant velocity, but the definition of 3.4 Dynamic Model of Elastic -joint Robots 77 sign(0) is crucial both from theoretical and ... model of a manipulator (considering friction in the joints) and having its actuators located at the joints6 is obtained by substituting τ from (3.30) in (3.25), ¨ ˙ ˙ ˙ ˙ (R M (q) + J) q + R C(q, ... (3.35) where u ∈ IRn and x ∈ IRn are the input vectors and the state variables corresponding to the actuator and m, G and l are nonlinear functions In the case of DC motors, the input vector u, represents...