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... BMI, mean disease duration, WOMAC R1377 Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Maheu et al Table Baseline characteristics of the 50 patients for whom radiographs were available Baseline characteristic ... of radiographs required in each stratum was 25 Radiographic techniques All radiographs were obtained at a standard size of 1/1 with the patient in a weight-bearing position The X-ray beam was ... on the ground was drawn on heavy-weight paper during initial radiography and was used to position the patient at each subsequent examination Radiation exposure for each patient was 0.7 mSv (milliSieverts)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... infancy, but it has a long way to go before digital is as common—or easy to use as a 35mm point and shoot camera But this is a great time to purchase and use a digital camera, and I hope that ... trip and store a huge number of images, a CompactFlash digital camera is your best choice You can get CompactFlash cards in capacities as high as 1GB (that’s about a thousand 2-megapixel images) ... technology has improved dramatically, and some new cameras with CMOS chips work as well as CCDs and they cost less to boot So don’t ignore a new digital camera just because it has a CMOS sensor As time...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2014, 20:27

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... This approach is based on the least-median-of-squares estimator (Ahmed and Farag 2005) In general, the problem of calibrating camera parameters has encouraged several researchers to advance various ... HFFS reactive navigation scheme, a segment-based map, a probability based open space evaluation system, and a Bayesian update rule These can be used for mobile wheelchairs, however the Bayesian theory ... sensors available such as ultrasound, laser and camera sensors, these being mounted on power wheelchairs and creating a ‘smart’ wheelchair The review then turns to stereo vision problems such as epipolar...

Ngày tải lên: 20/05/2016, 15:28

... display cellular characteristics of senescence J Vasc Surg 1998, 28:876-883 Hasan A, Murata H, Falabella A, Ochoa S, Zhou L, Badiavas E, Falanga V: Dermal fibroblasts from venous ulcers are unresponsive ... keratinocytes Implications for normal and impaired wound healing J Biol Chem 1995, 270:12607-12613 Saaristo A, Tammela T, Farkkila A, Karkkainen M, Suominen E, YlaHerttuala S, Alitalo K: Vascular ... Mycoplasma in broth [33], and culturing for Mycoplasma on plates [33] Bacterial contaminants were detected using the Gram Stain No determination of the species of bacteria was made Preparation...

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Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2015, 23:04

... (on a dodecamer basis) of 2.03 · 105 m)1Æcm)1, calculated with protparam (http://www.expasy.org) Removal of the His-tag A factor Xa cleavage site was created between the last amino acid (valine) ... The unusual Thermosynechoccus elongatus DpsA F Alaleona et al UV and gamma irradiation, and acid and base shock [3] Furthermore, it was established that the DNAbinding capacity is shared only ... the alternative sigma factor sigmaB in Bacillus subtilis J Bacteriol 179, 7251–7256 Nakamura Y, Kaneko T, Sato S, Ikeuchi M, Katoh H, Sasamoto S, Watanabe A, Iriguchi M, Kawashima K, Kimura T...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... move towards a virtual attractor in 3D Cartesian space as if its dynamics was equivalent to a virtual mass concentrated in its end-effector and attached by a virtual spring and damper We propose ... expression with a robot manipulator used as a bidirectional tangible interface Victor Zappi∗ , Antonio Pistillo, Sylvain Calinon, Andrea Brogni and Darwin Caldwell Department of Advanced Robotics, ... κP and κV are adaptive stiffness and damping gains in the plane of the circle κP and κV are constant gains in a direction perpendicular to the circle ⊥ ⊥ The variable scalar gains κP and κV are...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... move towards a virtual attractor in 3D Cartesian space as if its dynamics was equivalent to a virtual mass concentrated in its end-effector and attached by a virtual spring and damper We propose ... expression with a robot manipulator used as a bidirectional tangible interface Victor Zappi∗ , Antonio Pistillo, Sylvain Calinon, Andrea Brogni and Darwin Caldwell Department of Advanced Robotics, ... κP and κV are adaptive stiffness and damping gains in the plane of the circle κP and κV are constant gains in a direction perpendicular to the circle ⊥ ⊥ The variable scalar gains κP and κV are...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... can be interpreted as a bandpass digital filter operation followed by a decimation operation [2] The bandpass digital filter associated with the DFT method is centered at frequency 2π/3 and has ... a value that approaches zero in a quadratic fashion as yT+G (p) approaches zero Noncoding regions in the window that have sample values less than Maxvalue are effectively suppressed Consider a ... [3] D Anastassiou, “DSP in genomics,” in Proc IEEE Int Conf Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing, pp 1053–1056, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, May 2001 [4] S Tiwari, S Ramachandran, A Bhattacharya,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... TDR, also obtained a higher bias with higher q values Finally, Salas Comparison between neutron probe and TDR Table III Summary of the ANOVA results (two-way ANOVA with paired-values): (a) Probe ... as the between-sample factor, and method as the within-sample (repeated measurements) factor, using average values for each date, as the independent values Similar analyses were applied to test ... and TDR 187 Table I Characteristics of the forest plot at Navasfr as (province of Salamanca, Western Spain) Relief: Mountainous Physiography: Slope, to 15% Orientation: East Altitude: 960 m above...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... dimethylated arginine residues for epitopes assay Assay performance characteristics of the anti-SmD3 peptide (SMP) assay (a) Intra-assay and interassay variability, (b) linearity, and (c) receiver operating ... with an offset of two amino acids (13 amino acid overlap) Each arginine-containing peptide was synthesized as three variants, one with natural arginine, one with sDMA and one with asymmetrical ... 41.3 and 13.9 units, respectively R24 Correlation with racial and clinical parameters When correlating autoantibody specificities with race, there was a statistically significant association of autoantibodies...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... standard ascending aorta and bicaval cannulation Mildly hypothermic (32°C) CPB was established Cold blood cardioplegia was administered in an antegrade fashion through the aortic root after clamping ... filled with blood before the last few sutures were placed The patient was rewarmed, the aortic cross-clamp was removed and additional de-airing was carried out in the usual manner CPB was terminated ... indicator of core body temperature Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) was also instituted Surgery was performed through a median sternotomy Connection to cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) was achieved...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... CABG in patients with an EF of ≤ 20%: a chief complaint of only pain, unstable angina, and a Canadian and New York Heart Association class lower than IV Case selection has been shown to be an ... this article as: Soliman Hamad et al., Preoperative ejection fraction as a predictor of survival after coronary artery bypass grafting: comparison with a matched general population Journal of Cardiothoracic ... treated with medical management had a 43% 5-year survival rate as opposed to a 63% 5-year survival rate in the surgically treated patients Although CABG enables longer survival and a better quality...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... published instance of a renal lymphoma Intravascular extension of lymphoma is a rare clinical finding An atypical pattern of intra-abdominal spread of metastases and liver invasion was an important clue ... tomographic (PET) scan uptake in renal mass and abdominal metastasis Axial PET image (A) Intense fluorodeoxyglucose activity is seen in right renal mass (white arrows) Contralateral abdominal disease ... tumors such as testicular cancer, lymphoma, pancreatic cancer, Wilms’ tumor and sarcoma may occur, but these are relatively rare events associated with advanced cancer Intravascular extension and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... this article as: Cassini et al.: Using Mitrofanoff’s principle and Monti’s technique as a surgical option for bladder augmentation with a continent stoma: a case report Journal of Medical Case ... patients with a large amount of subcutaneous tissue because channel length is required to reach the skin and the appendix that is Page of anastomosed at the bladder wall with a nonrefluxing anastomosis ... the vascularized ileocecal appendix is anastomosed at the skin and bladder, with a nonrefluxing valve and continent stoma) We then proceed with closure of the bladder neck Case Presentation A 33-year-old...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... with a positive anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody test The MG stage was assessed as grade IIA according to the Osserman classification at that time A clinical swallowing evaluation by a speech/language ... sphincter achalasia in a patient with myasthenia gravis: a case report Cases J 2009, 2:6565 Colton-Hudson A, Koopman WJ, Moosa T, Smith D, Bach D, Nicolle M: A prospective assessment of the characteristics ... this article as: Juan et al.: Efficacy of postural techniques assessed by videofluoroscopy for myasthenia gravis with dysphagia as the presenting symptom: a case report Journal of Medical Case...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:22

... vertebrae Imaging demonstrating paraspinal inflammation increases sensitivity and specificity for HVO, but atypical organisms, such as mycobacteria, often lack paraspinal inflammation and are also ... lymphoma Blood 2002, 99:4283-4297 11 Ocana MG, Valle-Garay E, Montes AH, Meana A, Carton JA, Fierer J, Celada A, Asensi V: Bax gene G(-248 )A promoter polymorphism is associated with increased lifespan ... fungal infections were all negative, as were an antinuclear antibody (ANA) test, a rapid plasma regain (RPR) test, and a human immunodeficiency virus Page of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... minimal trauma On examination, he appeared pale with sparse axillary and pubic hair with no galactorrhoea or gynaecomastia On neurological examination there were no visual field defects or cranial ... and anaemia was merely ascribed to old age Six years later, the anaemia was resolved when the prolactin levels were reduced, making it reasonable to deduce that hyperprolactinaemia was the cause ... complete) and infertility are possible presenting features in younger males [1] Hyperprolactinaemia can create a hypogonadic state [2] which is associated with anaemia However, an unexplained anaemia...

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