... et al [31] performed a diagnostic foraminotomy through a posterior approach as a first stage At a second stage, anterior exploration of the brachial plexus was carried out Using the posterior ... cervical cord, cause much tissue damage and lack extensibility Using a single stage combined anterior (first) posterior (second) approach, we describe a technique that provides adequate exposure ... Medial cutaneous nerve of forearm, superficial radial nerve, supraclavicular nerves - Nexcellent Wexcellent R3 C5,6 grafting to superior trunk, C7,8T1: direct cord implantation Medial cutaneous...
... structure (stages and units) They are serial multi -stage (single unit in each stage) plants (Figure 1.1b), single stage plants with parallel units (Figure 1.1c), and multistage plants with parallel units ... J2 J3 JM StageStageStageStage M Figure 1.1b Schematic of a serial multi -stage process J1 J2 Raw Material Products JM Figure 1.1c Schematic of a single stage process with parallel units m(S−1)+1 ... parallel units in stage s xi Nomenclature Kjs number of slots on unit j of stage s Continuous Variables tjks time at which slot k on unit j of stage s ends CTis time at which batch i leaves stage...
... (Integers) 68 Floating Point (Real Numbers) 70 Number Precision 72 Execution Speed: Program Language 76 Execution Speed: Hardware 80 Execution Speed: Programming Tips 84 vi FUNDAMENTALS Chapter Linear ... Digital Signal Processing Second Edition by Steven W Smith California Technical Publishing San Diego, California The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing Second Edition by Steven ... DSPguide.com e-mail: Smith@DSPguide.com Printed in the United States of America First Edition, 1997 Second Edition, 1999 Important Legal Information: Warning and Disclaimer This book presents the...
... tetrahydrofluoranthene, that are reported [ 12,13] to be among the most active hydrogen donors Hydrogenation reactions were carried out in a bench-scale continuous trickle bed at 623 K, 10 MPa, ... work, the evolution with time of the activity and selectivity of red mud used as a catalyst for the hydrogenation of anthracene oil was studied Reactions were carried out at constant temperature, ... kind of analysis, catalyst samples must be polished and carbon coated 2.3 Reaction studies The hydrogenation experiments were carried out in a continuous trickle bed reactor with a mm internal...
... [17], it was assumed that eosinopenia of acute infection is a secondary response to stress caused by the infection [18] The value of this old marker of acute infection was tested by Gil and colleagues ... Diagnoses in the negative group were acute poisoning (n = 30), scorpion envenomation (n = 3), acute ischemic stroke (n = 2), and hypercalcemia (n = 2) SIRS was caused by acute exacerbation of chronic ... eosinopenia in acute infection, also considered as an acute stress, involve mediation by adrenal glucocorticosteroids and epinephrine [14] Also, the initial eosinopenic response to acute infections...
... cervix Table Clinical characteristics of patients Patient 35 P0(0) histology and clinical stage SCC stage Ib1 gestation at delivery 24 weeks + day birth weight and Apgar 588g score 1(1min.)/1(5min.) ... referred to our hospital She received diagnostic laser conization, and she was diagnosed as having stage Ib1 squamous cell carcinoma Then she underwent vaginal RT and laparoscopic lymphadenectomy, ... of gestation Patient was a 28-year-old Japanese woman, gravida para She was diagnosed as having stage Ib1 cervical squamous cell carcinoma by diagnostic laser conization at a local hospital She...
... connections The present study aimed to detect the expression of Cx40 and Cx43 in the artery at early stage of high fat diet induced atherosclerosis and to investigate the effects of AT1 antagonist ... were obtained and washed with cold normal saline The aortas without evident yellow plaque were cut into pieces and fixed in 10% paraformaldehyde The blood vessels without obvious yellow speckle ... these tissues were cleaned 83 with chloroform and xylene and then embedded in paraffin Tissues were cut into μm sections The sections were deparaffinized, and endogenous peroxidase was quenched by...
... types may become necessary, whereas modular systems seem to be favourable One stage –two stage It is undoubted that one stage protocols, if successful, provide the best benefit both for the patient ... adding a second one stage procedure for treating the failed cases the overall result with two operations may improve to >95%, an outcome which is at least as good as the best results after two stage ... facilitated re-revision in case of failure One stage revision using ABC together with uncemented implants such should be at least comparably save as multiple stage procedures, taking advantage of the...
... antibiotic elution rate and apply the cement in the late stage of polymerisation to prevent interdigitation into bone to facilitate extraction at the 2nd stage revision [23] Vacuum mixing whilst increasing ... primary aim of this technique is to maintain function and soft tissue tension between stages to facilitate the second- stage reimplantation procedure It has also been reported to reduce bone loss in ... appropriate adjustment of systemic antibiotic therapy before reimplantation The timing of the secondstage is variable but is essentially based on clinical, radiological and laboratory evidence...
... the proposed method Finally, we conclude in section Feature extraction Candidate text extraction using Neural Network Text regions extraction results Figure Flow chart of the proposed algorithm ... Then the text regions are obtained using a neural network trained with those features The proposed extraction method is described with details in section In section 3, experiment results are displayed ... 0.587G + 0.114B Haar DWT (1) Image Y is then processed with discrete wavelet transform and the whole extraction algorithm afterward If the input image itself is already stored in the DWT compressed...
... Automatic Thresholding of Gray-level Using Multi -stage Approach ICDAR, 2003, pp 493-497 [3] H Negishi, J Kato, H Hase, and T Watanabe Character Extraction from Noisy Background for an Automatic ... we use contours of objects to simplify the conventional color reduction and connected components extraction procedure Further, with the help of the object contours, we can get the characteristic ... background IEE Proceedings, 1997, Vol 144, pp 332-338 [7] B.T Chun, Y Bae, and T.Y Kim Automatic Text Extraction in Digital Videos using FFT and Neural Network Fuzzy systems Conference Proceedings,...
... for the second year students of library study at the NTTC is the subject matter chosen for my thesis Aims and Objectives The study aims at designing an appropriate ESP syllabus for the second ... appropriate ESP syllabus for the second year students of library study at NTTC Scope of the Study The study limits itself to design an ESP reading syllabus for the second year students of library ... communicative competence Secondly, the content is restricted to specific of use to perform many functions Thirdly, the functional content is presented in short utterances and units of discourse, large...
... three stages: presentation, rules and practice (see Sample Unit in Appendix 5) In the presentation stage, students are given a task that highlights the new grammar points In the second stage, ... two or more units of the book to examine the extent to which the factor in the external evaluation stage actually match the internal consistency and organization of the materials staged by the ... appropriate, then the internal stage starts and if the findings show that the material is inappropriate, the evaluation will be finished at the external stage The internal stage (micro- evaluation)...
... success in second language learning It is believed that children are better than adults at acquiring a second language It is also often claimed that there is a critical period for second language ... point regarding aptitude and second language learning is that successful learners may not be strong in all the components of aptitude and can still succeed at learning a second language For example, ... tests and second language learning, some students, in fact, whose academic performance is weak, are successful in L2 learning b Aptitude: Aptitude refers to the special ability involved in second...