... fractures ofthe pelvic ring andthe acetabulum, fractures and dislocations ofthe face, head, neck, complex fractures ofthe hand and some ofthe fractures ofthe thoracic and lumbar spine) The primary ... accuracy ofthe register and contributed to data extraction and writing KH made the operation planning program; ORPlan and contributed to the data extraction AJA contributed in the planning and participated ... to theimplementationofan inhospital fracture and dislocation registry using the AO/OTA classification: compliance, completeness and commitment Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and...
... Fischer-Tropsch synthesis andthe effectiveness of wet and dry gas cleaning methods [79] 33 Table 6: Contaminant specification for cobalt FT synthesis, and cleaning effectiveness of wet and dry gas cleaning ... From the calculations derived in Appendix A, the energy demand for the modified pulping section ofthe plant is 56 MW of electricity and 267 tonnes per day of steam The demand for the steam in the ... consists of a physical mixture of a methanol synthesis catalyst and a methanol dehydration catalyst The methanol synthesis catalyst is generally a copper and/ or zinc and/ or aluminum and/ or chromium...
... given curve and then allowed to swing Let the length ofthe string be l Take the position of equilibrium ofthe string as the axis of X, and one ofthe ends as the origin, and suppose the string ... the value ofthe potential function at any point ofthe axis ofthe ring We get for it V =√ M + x2 (1) c2 where M is the mass ofthe ring, and x the distance ofthe point from the centre ofthe ... becomes y = e−(x±at)αi , another solution of [VIII] Add these values of y and divide by and we have cos α(x ± at) Subtract the second value of y from the first and divide by 2i and we have sin α(x ±...
... backoff mechanism andthe enhanced ones, that is, the AOB protocol andthe AOB-CR protocol In all the experiments we use our NIC implementation both for the AOB-based solutions and for the standard ... in the network is nonnegligible On the contrary, the AOB protocol guarantees an optimal spreading ofthe channel access independently ofthe network contention level andofthe number of retransmissions ... over the 802.11 standard and not to entirely redesign the standard channel access mechanisms, we tried to find a flexible development platform providing animplementationofthe legacy 802.11 standard...
... Nreal is the number of corresponding subgraphs in the real network, and Nrand describes the number of corresponding subgraphs in a randomized network, represented by the average andthe standard ... supported by an institutional grant from HHMI (F.P.R.), the Milton Fund of Harvard University (S.L.W and F.P.R.), and grants from the CIHR (B.A and C.B.), Genome Canada (B.A., C.B and H.B.), Genome ... number of links that originate from the node) We then sampled from an ensemble of random networks [60] such that the expected in-degree and out-degree of each node in the ensemble are the same as the...
... conceptualized the case report, gathered the data and wrote the manuscript ML drafted and revised the manuscript JH gathered the clinical data and assisted with postoperative care ofthe patient ... Confirmation of CT scan1 the neck and upper in size Figure of CT scan ofthe neck and upper medastinum: Confirmation of a soft tissue tumour (→) cm in size Expansive tumour growth displaced the trachea ... obstruction and mimic the symptoms of venous thrombosis However, in the absence of venous stases in the rare instance of a leiomyosarcoma and close proximity to vessel structures, a rare event ofan intravascular...
... be scanned in both longitudinal and transverse planes, along with the calcaneal and retrocalcaneal bursa, the plantar fascial calcaneal enthesis, the peroneal tendons, tibialis anterior, the Achilles ... JIA, and also to evaluate the effectiveness ofthe current available treatments for such problems in the short and long term Our recent survey of foot problemsand medical and podiatric management ... dorsal and plantar 2nd-4th MTP joints andthe dorsal, lateral and plantar aspect ofthe 5th MTP joint [37] Proximally, the tibio-talar, subtalar, talonavicular, calcaneocuboid, cuneonavicular, and...
... stockholders of Eli Lilly and Co Authors' contributions J-LV and DPS conceived and designed the study J-LV, JO, AW, and XW participated in the individual studies included in theintegrated database and ... JLV, JO, BLT, RG, and DPS conducted the principal analysis and drafted the manuscript All authors contributed to revision ofthe manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements ... JO'B, XW, and AW have all participated in clinical trials sponsored by Eli Lilly and Co J-LV and AW have served as paid consultants for Eli Lilly and Co RG, BLT, and DPS are employees and stockholders...
... carried out the study, analyzed the data, and drafted the manuscript UA, MS, KT, and SOK each participated in the organization and coordination ofthe field data collection NRM, TO, WA and IS participated ... WHO Regional Office for Africa, the WHO headquarters, andthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for their review and comments during the development andimplementationofthe study We ... from the average per capita costs of laboratory and treatment costs for Eritrea and Mali (see Table 2) Without the laboratory and treatment costs, the mean annual all disease surveillance and...
... successful outcomes As the results of such an evaluation are very sensitive to the type of educational interventions provided andthe choice of variables considered, the source ofthe estimates should ... intranet, and poster displays A ‘sepsis team’ (mentioned above) consisting ofan ICU physician andan infectiologist, who were available 24 hours a day, was introduced to support the ICU staff and ... with better outcome However, the findings of Girardis and colleagues [1] should be interpreted in the context ofthe limitations ofthe findings The authors assumed that the favourable outcome observed...
... d’Andrea-Novel, B., Bastin, G.: Modeling and State Feedback Control of Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems In: Proceedings ofthe 30th Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, pp 1184–1189 England ... rolling constraints In: Proceedings ofthe International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp 2193–2198 (1992) Lewis, F.L., Abdallah, C.T., Dawson, D.M.: Con-tol of Robot Manipulators MacMillan, ... Campion, G., d’Andrea-Novel, B., Bastin, G.: Controllability and state feedback stabilization of nonholo-nomic mechanical systems In: de Wit, C.C et al (eds.) Lecture Notes in Control and Information...
... is regarded as the convergence of file and block technologies, can provide the advantages of both of them Based on the object access, BrainStor integrates the strengths of NAS and SAN technologies ... integrates the strengths of NAS and SAN technologies without inheriting their weaknesses The strength and weakness of DAS, NAS, SAN and OSD can be summarized in Table 1.1 [21] Table 1.1: Comparison of ... includes the object ID andthe OSM ID, which indicates the ID of OSM to store data ofthe object The file-to-object mapping information and other security and QoS information are also stored in the...
... bodies world-wide to standardize on their understanding oftheimplementationofthe standards, and methods of assessing its implementation Therefore, the most cost effective and comprehensive solution ... The following table presents an overview ofthe common points andthe differences ofthe two standard systems 16 Table 2.1: Common points andthe differences of GMP and ISO 9000 series of standards ... and 3) National Standard which followed lesser Indonesian and Thai standards However, the government has never granted an international standard license and is eliminating consideration of national...
... the susceptibility of E coli model membranes to the action of AP1 An important determinant ofthe susceptibility of membranes to a-AMPs is the packing characteristics ofthe individual membrane ... absorbance spectra were produced For these spectra, water bands were subtracted, andthe evaluation of peptide band parameters (peak position, band width and intensity) Antimicrobial properties of ... Ottawa, Ontario, Canada The band shapes ofthe single components are superpositions of Gaussian and Lorentzian band shapes Best ts were obtained by assuming a Gauss fraction of 0.550.6 The curfit procedure...
... Lys118 and Gly122, andthe side chain nitrogen and amide proton group of Asn124 in the c sugarbinding site These residues, which exhibited the most significant perturbations in the 15N and amide ... ofthe chemical shift titration data to the binding isotherm [27] A plot ofthe weighted average chemical-shift changes of 1H and 15N resonances for the cross-peaks of Gly122, as a function of ... binding isotherm describing the binding of one ligand molecule to a single protein site using the Solver function of 15 EXCEL 2002 The weighted average ofthe H and N chemical-shift changes of Gly122...
... Yao and O Chadli, “Pseudomonotone complementarity problemsand variational inequalities,” in Handbook of Generalized Convexity and Generalized Monotonicity, vol 76 of Nonconvex Optimization and ... 10 Y Yao, Y.-C Liou, and J.-C Yao, “Convergence theorem for equilibrium problemsand fixed point problemsof infinite family of nonexpansive mappings,” Fixed Point Theory and Applications, vol ... Fixed Point Theory and Applications 21 12 W Takahashi and M Toyoda, “Weak convergence theorems for nonexpansive mappings and monotone mappings,” Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications,...
... systems and single and multiple processor custom computing machines Zoran Salcic is a Professor of computer systems engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand He holds the B.E., M.E., and ... Wang, “Real-time multiprocessor implementationofan automated video surveillance application,” ME thesis, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2005 C R Wren, A Azarbayejani, ... human intervention and compress the captured video sequence for transmission and storage In order to reduce the amount of video information that is actually transmitted and stored, and to further...
... number of user lower than the value ofthe OVSF Thus, the number of user higher than the value ofthe OVSF should be distributed on the other sectors ofthe BTS Under these conditions, the number of ... exploited theimplementation advantages ofthe algorithm andthe particular features of Xilinx devices The regularity and recursiveness ofthe CF-MUD algorithm offer the opportunity to maximize the ... denotes the time; Lk is the number of propagation paths; h(n) and τk,l are, respectively, the complex gain andthe k,l propagation delay ofthe path l for user k; Nb represents the number ofthe transmitted...
... that B and C are ideals ofan algebra A, and that as a vector space A is the direct sum of B and C (A = B + C, B ∩ C = 0) Then A is called the direct sum A = B ⊕ C of B and C as algebras The vector ... let C and C have equivalent norm forms n(x) and n (x ) Let B (and B ) be as above If B and B are isomorphic under H0 , then the restrictions of n(x) and n (x ) to B and B are equivalent Then by ... C , we can then write A = B ⊕ C, the direct sum of B and C as algebras As in the case of vector spaces, the notion of direct sum extends to an arbitrary (indexed) set of summands In these notes...
... achieved their covered with a dense net of hairs (Fig 3, 1a and 2a); 2) as the leaf matures, all stomates end their development and hairs progressively disappear (Fig 3, 1b and 2b) The decrease ... in epidermal resistance after the leaf has reached its full size may thus be attributed to both stomatal development and a decrease in boundary layer resistance development They are References ... petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) en foret de Fontainebleau Ann Sci For 46, 173-186 Nizinski J & Saugier B (1989b) A model of transpiration and soil-water balance for a mature oak forest Agric For Meteorol...