the long term stability of craniofacial implants

... color of the underside of the CFRP 78 rd 3.53 Voids found in the bay on the north end of the east arch 79 3.54 Removal of the CFRP of the largest void 79 3.55 Epoxy filled holes following the pull-off ... arch 83 3.59 The repaired sections on the north end of the arches 83 3.60 The repaired sections on the north end of the arches 83 3.61 The rough contour of a tensile test strip of CFRP 85 3.62 ... 2011 on the 1st bay on the north side of the east arch 59 3.22 Photograph of two voids, found in 2011 on the 1st bay on the north side of the east arch 59 3.23 Two identified voids during the 2011

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2017, 22:38

... on one or more of the three items within the last 6 months at either T1 or T2 Aggressive toward others (n  =  87, 42.5  % females): Reports of “very true or often true” within the past 6  months ... Norway Full list of author information is available at the end of the article measurement and classification of bullying Olweus and Limber [8] defines bullying or victimization in terms of being bullied, ... assessed with the ASR—Adult Self-Report [36], which in the ASEBA system is the adult extension of the YSR addressing behavioral, emotional, and social problems, using the same response options The ASR

Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2020, 20:09

... radiotherapy and chemotherapy The current management of loco-regionally advanced NPC is radiotherapy combined with cisplatinbased concurrent chemotherapy With the development of modern radiation therapy ... scintigraphy, and an ultrasonography of the Page of 12 abdominal region for all the patients All the included patients were restaged according to the Seventh Edition of the American Joint Committee on ... dose of 200 mg weekly during the entire radiation period A total of 184 patients received full doses of Nimotuzumab Follow-up Patient follow-up was measured from the first day of therapy to the

Ngày tải lên: 17/06/2020, 18:19

... includes urban and suburb areas, where the urban covers districts locating in the center of the municipality, and the suburb covers the other districts The data of gastric © 2014 Zheng et al.; licensee ... “alive” until that point of time Furthermore, the mortality data are periodically matched with the incident database of cancers The vital status of the unmatched incident cases is then verified by home ... Methods: The main source of information on cancer cases was the notification card sending to the registry The residential status of cancer cases was confirmed by home-visits The methods of follow-up

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 00:14

... considered the first choice for these early-stage liver cancer cases in the absence of an extrahepatic target; however, the shortage of liver grafts from deceased donors, as a result of recently ... included The 1-, 3- and 5-year overall survival rates and tumor-free survival rates were comparable between the solitary radical therapy group and TACE combined group in the whole group and in each of ... to the overall and tumor-free survival rates In conclusions, our results indicated that preoperative adjuvant TACE did not prolong long- term overall or tumor-free survival, but LT should nevertheless

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 15:50

... elements If the failure criteria are met, the CZM will initiate the fracture and debonding of the coating The experimentally determined tensile and adhesion properties act as the inputs to the model ... 2010) The DGR is constructed at a depth of over 400 m The geosphere of dense rock, which has no free flowing water, limits the movement of radioactive particles Natural analogues of DGRs, such as the ... as the 1970s Currently, there are several additional countries pursuing DGRs, including Finland, Japan, Korea, Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom The longterm safety of a DGR relies on the

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2022, 00:52

... localized-heterogeneous), due to the operation of the nuclear plants, determines a progressive reduction (few tens of μm per year) of the thickness of the pipe If the thickness is reduced too much, the pipe may ... scenario For these reasons, the simulations carried out have considered both the ideal-theoretical case of homoge­ neous thinning of the thickness along the whole pipe and the case of thinning ... more difficult due to the lack of (in-depth) knowledge of aging phenomena and mechanisms Therefore, to deal with the gap that characterizes the design of the actual SSCs of the existing plants,

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2022, 22:32

... radiological evidence of OA of the affected knee on a radiograph obtained within six months of the outset of the study Finally, patients had to have a minimum JSW of the medial compartment of between and ... damage assessment of the knee joint in particular is crucial for monitoring OA disease progression and for eventually evaluating the therapeutic effect of disease With the aging of the world population, ... corticoid injection in the study knee within the six months prior to the outset of the study, as well as their classification as radiological grade IV on the Kellgren-Lawrence scale for the study knee

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... into mea- suring the ranges of neuron cell response over long time scales upon their perturbation by the QDs. The purpose of the study was to explore the potential for labelling of undifferentiated ... those expected for the (111) plane of cubic zinc blend CdTe [50].Wehavepreviouslyshownthatalthoughthepre- sence of gelatine during the synthesis of the QDs can influence the rate of QD growth and ... possi ble degradation of the QDs without the presence of the PC12 cells, we carried out a number of experiments to analyse the effect of co-incu- bating the QDs with only the cell culture medium

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... (QoL) have not been appropriately evaluated especially in the long term. The study aimed to examine, in the long term, what aspects of Quality of Life (QoL) changed among social anxiety disorder (SAD) ... of symptomatology of SAD are directly associated with QoL at long- term follow-up;and3)whatpredictorsatbaselineareasso- ciated with QoL in the long- term after group CBT. We hypothesized that the ... explanation of t he objectives and procedures of the present study. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Treatment The

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... single parent mothers of the control group Neither mother-child interactions nor teacher ratings yielded significant results Conclusions: The results support the long- term efficacy of the Triple P ... questionnaires by mother and father, mother-child interaction, and teacher evaluations Furthermore, the efficacy of the intervention for mothers, fathers, and single parents were evaluated We hypothesized, ... years of school) The family net income was equivalent to the German average, 5% of the families were receiving public assistance, and 7% of mothers (5% of fathers) were immigrants There were no

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... this thesis, a variety of methods are used to document results based on (1) the type of returns used in calculating long- term returns, (2) the type of benchmark chosen, and (3) the choice of the ... (2) investigating the sensitivity of performance results to the choice of benchmark as well as the choice of methodology; (3) identifying, if any, the individual IPO characteristics that explain the long- term ... reduced the performance difference between these two segments. The results of IPO long- term performance are also found to be time sensitive both in terms of the IPO issuing year as well as the post-IPO

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:44

... nasal soft triangle Furthermore, silicone sheets were added to the nasal stent to maintain the nose in an overcorrected fashion The objective of the present study was to compare the long- term columella ... suture) By approximating the lower lateral cartilages, the skin of the inverted-U incision was turned inward, elongating the columella The skin excess at the rim of the nostril was excised Two ... the other modification being that we extend the incision behind the columella to only one-third of the columella The fibrofatty tissue was released from the lower lateral cartilages through the

Ngày tải lên: 08/01/2017, 21:04

... the long term? - How informal costs affect SMEs perfomance in the short term and in the long term? The importance and new contributions of the thesis Scientific significance The thesis builds the ... the long- term development of the business, in that way The other is having a negative relationship in the long term CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR TERMINOLOGY RELATIONSHIP SHORT - LONG TERM ... the relationship between variables in the short and long term, including the steps: Verification of co-linkages to determine whether there exists a relationship between long- term variables, then

Ngày tải lên: 08/01/2020, 07:20

... evaluation of the long- term safety and efficacy of risperidone in adolescents with schizophrenia Gahan Pandina, Stuart Kushner, Keith Karcher and Magali Haas* Abstract Background: Data on the long- term ... Changes to the study design were made to fulfill regulatory requirements The changes consisted of a reduction in the planned duration of treatment and the dose range The planned duration of treatment ... by 36 (9%) subjects The AE profile in this study was qualitatively similar to those of other studies in adult subjects with schizophrenia and in other psychiatric studies of risperidone in pediatric

Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2020, 20:36

... short -term weight-loss, whilst little is known both on the longterm effects of this treatment and the determinants of successful weight-loss and subsequent weight maintenance The purpose of this ... manuscript provides an outline of the rationale and the design of the LOGIC-trial, which is the first study that evaluates the short, middle and long- term effects of an inpatient weight-loss program ... from the children and their accompanying legal guardians The study is conducted according to the declaration of Helsinki (Seoul, 2008) and approved by the ethics committee of the Faculty of Medicine

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2020, 00:18

... Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ... excellent safety profile [10], several drawbacks of the virosomal formulations including solubility and limited stability after coupling all the single peptides together to virosomes, were the reasons ... The aim of the current study was therefore to compare the immunogenicity of the selected hybrid peptide in mice, 1) when coupled to CRM compared to virosomes to select a potent carrier for the hybrid

Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2020, 01:22

... speci…cations for the long- term perception of the monetary authorities’in‡ ation target to explain, with the Fisher relationship, the presence of shifts in the long- term perception of the short -term interest ... second, the presence of some shifts in the short -term nominal endpoint stochastic process, or in other words, in the long- term perception of the level of the short -term interest rates In the appendix ... expectations of each variable of the model The second stage is to include these endpoints in the autoregressive model for forecasting The use of these endpoints serves to anchor the long term forecast of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... thus results in not only the short -term amelioration of the reward deficit but also suppression of the antireward system However, in the long term, there is worsening of the underlying neurochemical ... etc [5-16] Use of these substances and engaging in these aforementioned behaviors commonly induces the release of neuronal DA into the synapse at the NAc, the reward center of the brain [3] Acute ... allows for the fine tuning of GABA activity This provides the normal release of dopamine at the projected area of the n accumbens (reward site of the brain) It is noteworthy that other important...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... comparison of the collective responses from each of these segments form the basis of this section of the report OCTOBER 2007 12 Releasing Resources to Support Growth The Long- Term Benefits of Finance ... Resources to Support Growth The Long- Term Benefits of Finance Transformation Reallocating savings effectively Which companies have made the best use of the savings they’ve realized through transaction-processing ... back-office transaction processing to a high degree—and most of them have realized the gains they expected from their automation efforts • Over the last three years, companies have most often...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 23:28