... topographical control of outgrowth and synapse formation on snail neurons Advanced Materials 2002, 14:141-144 Moriguchi H, Wakamoto Y, Sugio Y, Takahashi K, Inoue I, Yasuda Y: An agar-microchamber ... consisting of an agarose microchamber (AMCA) cell cultivation array maintained at constant temperature, controlled atmosphere and humidity (Figure 1) We used the AMCA cell cultivation chip to create a ... drawing of the on-chip agarose microchamber (AMCA) cell cultivation system Schematic drawing of the on-chip agarose microchamber (AMCA) cell cultivation system Page of (page number not for citation...
... years; teachers and researchers believe that motivation plays an important part in the process of acquiring an additional language because motivated students are usually those who participate actively ... have a great tendency to attract the attention of students that other forms of the mass media lack According to Subramaniyan A Nambiar (1985), “ Even the person who is totally tone deaf may at ... example, before the arrival of Mother's Day or Father's Day, the teacher can first play a song about parents, such as STRAW HAT, FATHER AND SON etc, then organize some discussion about parental...
... plotted against hardness to indicate the range of influence of each tool material and the comparative relative merits of one material against another, with some of their physical and mechanical properties ... single-crystal diamond (SCD), is the hardest material available today If such natural dia- 30 Chapter • Natural diamond – has a hardness of 9,000 kg mm–2 (ie diamond orientation and test conditions): Diamond ... crystalline grains can be either ‘beta-Sialon’ , or a mixture of ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ , but generally it can be said that as the ‘alpha’ phase increases, the hardness of the ‘Sialon’ becomes greater...
... Herman JL: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror New York, USA: Basic Books; 1997 Freyd JJ: Betrayal trauma: traumatic amnesia as an adaptive ... review of the medical record, as a summary of all staff accounts Although the nurses assigned both ratings after treatment, their judgment about pretreatment behavior was based on a summary of notes ... stay from day to weeks and serve regional agencies of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health They have the same mission and similar staffing, for both psychosocial and pharmacological...
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... after admission to the ICU, and resulted as having lesions of extra-cranial vessels (2.2% of all trauma patients; 11.3% of patient with risk factors) (Table 4) Table Baseline and clinical characteristics ... JW, Barest G, Sakai O, Lucey B, Soto JA: Impact of MDCT angiography on the use of catheter angiography for the assessment of cervical arterial injury after blunt or penetrating trauma AJR Am J ... luminal narrowing Dissection or intramural hematoma with > = 25% luminal narrowing Pseudoaneurysm Occlusion Transection with free extravasation and major facial fractures, and 13 patients had brain...
... GIA, the off-diagonal element of animals i and j for the A matrix is aij, and the off-diagonal element of animals i and descendant st at the tth generation of animal If i is a donor animal of ... provides an analytical tool to analyse GIAs with an imperfect genetic relationship within pairs of GIAs 11 12 13 Takeda K, Takahashi S, Onishi A, Goto Y, Miyazawa A, Imai H: Dominant distribution of ... heritability ofa trait was 0.5 and the variance for both additive genetic effect and random residuals was 2500 The number of animals in the base population (G0) was 300 (150 males and 150 females)...
... be an important material to be used as a thermal interface material Phase change materials, manufactured by Honeywell Electronic Materials are protected by at least patents [35-36] The material ... Chemistry and Interfacial Mechanics ofa Phase Change Material on Metal Surfaces PCM Characterization Thermal Resistance Measurement Setup Surface Characterization Interaction of PCM on Metal Surfaces ... amount of heat transferred A = cross-section area ofmaterial k = thermal conductivity of the material L = length of the material From equation 2.26, it can be seen that thermal resistance ofa homogeneous...
... separate data area of these database systems means that they not need the segment cleaning mechanisms of the Sprite LFS to reclaim log space The space occupied by the log in a database system can ... simulates the actions ofa cleaner until a threshold number of clean segments is available again In each run the simulator was allowed to run until the write cost stabilized and all coldstart variance ... the most up to date ‘‘truth’’ about the state of the data on disk The main difference is that database systems not use the log as the final repository for data: a separate data area is reserved...
... nature to a data manager which fails to free data, but is easier to detect and prevent • Data manager changes data A malicious data manager may change the value of its data on each cache refresh ... access to cached data than the data manager has permitted (e.g., a write fault on a page made read-only by a pager_data_lock call), the kernel issues a pager_data_unlock call The data manager is ... memory as a cache of secondary storage data pages The effect of this kind of caching on the performance of UNIX and its traditional suite of application programs is dramatic Compilation ofa small...
... – Advantages • Can carry up to three times the amount of data as TDMA • Transmissions are much harder to eavesdrop on • A would-be eavesdropper must also know the exact chip in which the transmission ... the signal • Attenuation – A loss of signal strength • Multipath distortion – As a radio signal is transmitted, the electromagnetic waves spread out 24 Signal Strength (continued) 25 Radio Frequency ... (continued) Antennas • Transmit or receive an RF signal Multiple Access • Only a limited number of frequencies are available for radio transmission – Conserving the use of frequencies is important • Conserving...
... contained a core of Afro-Mediterranean race and spoke an Afroasiatic language Egyptian civilisation displayed many cultural and political patterns later to appear elsewhere in the continent, although ... contrast with the characteristically tall and slender Nilotic peoples whose languages belonged to a third, Nilo-Saharan family, which may have originated in the broad Saharan region at least as early ... rainfall declined thereafter, Nilo-Saharan speakers may have carried this culture and later the exploitation of grain southward towards Lake Victoria, although there is as yet no archaeological...
... safety) Materials and methods Stavanger HEMS The Stavanger HEMS is part of the national HEMS system of Norway, and its primary areas of operation are the mixed urban and rural districts of Rogaland ... Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation Author details Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drøbak, Norway 2Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger ... Science Data Service approved the collection and recording of the study data Statistics Data were recorded into a database designed with File Maker (FileMaker Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA) We used Table...
... of data that could allow for a structured evaluation of the organizational changes It is evident that a well-planned evaluation of changes in the organizations, before they are actually made, ... on performance Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2010, 54(6):689-695 Handbooks of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Ambulance and emergency care services: A handbook for drawing up an alarm procedure ... several databases Approximately 40% of all emergency calls during the period 2002-2005 were available from the municipality-based databases The rest of the data could not be gathered since it was...
... non-parametric correlations A P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as significant Software package STATA 9.0 (USA) was used for the analysis Materials and Methods Results Hospital setting and antibiotic ... and resistance patterns of leading nosocomial pathogens (gram) and number of boxes were calculated from two databases, 1) Hospital pharmacy computer databases, and 2) International Medication System ... NARP was initiated in Turkey in February 2003 by a central regulation of Ministry of Health and was announced nation-wide via official newspaper of the state [11] This is a quasi-experimental...
... Clinically significant oroantral communications a study of incidence and site Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 1994;23:19-21 Haas R, Watzak G, Baron M, Tepper G, Mailath G, Watzek G A preliminary study of ... characteristics of OAC/OAF; the apexes of tooth 26 were in extremely close approximation to the maxillary sinus, and an area of periapical rarefaction was evident (Fig 1) After the failure of the endodontic ... and clavulanic acid g The fixed partial prosthesis was removed and the contiguous mucosa appeared healthy A buccal full thickness flap was harvested and the presence ofa small OAF was verified...
... use of heavy ions demands absolute reliability of new diagnostics and treatment planning for prostate and brain tumors By the fact that the rare earth metals trapped inside of the carbon cage are ... evaluation of Gd@C60[C(COOH)2]10 as a MRI contrast agent J Am Chem Soc 2003; 125: 5471-8 Okumura M, Mikawa M, Yokawa T, et al Evaluation of water-soluble metallofullerenes as MRI contrast agents ... relaxation times are unsatisfactory so far, because radiation induced necrosis [58], vital tumor tissue and cerebral metastases are nearly undistinguishable.[51] Additionally, preclinical data suggest...