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In this paper the integrated implementation of the Manufacturing Engineering subject in all new engineering degrees at the University of Malaga is analyzed, within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) framework. After identifying the methodology used by Department of Engineering Manufacturing Process and the probl... |
OBJECTIVES |
To measure the degree to which dentists can accurately identify radiographic features and use their findings in the diagnosis of three lesions. |
METHODS |
Fourteen radiographic examples were used in this study and five features derived from the literature: border sharpness, border radiopacity, lesion shape, lesion radiopacity and root contact. A 'silver standard' for the presence of the features in the radiographic images of the lesions was established by expert observer... |
RESULTS |
When dentists made different subjective diagnoses for a case, significant differences were found in the extent to which features were reported to be present. The degrees of presence of border sharpness (21%) and border radiopacity (46%) measured using the 'silver standard' were significantly related to the diagnosis of... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Radiographic information is not used to its full extent and improvement in the recognition of features and the cognitive use of this radiographic information in the diagnostic process could improve diagnostic accuracy.Correction of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase deficiency (type I tyrosinemia) in cultured human fibrobla... |
Type I hereditary tyrosinemia results from an inherited deficiency in fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase, the enzyme involved in the last step in tyrosine catabolic pathway. The cloning of the cDNA encoding FAH in human has opened the way to genetic treatment of HT 1. We have constructed recombinant retroviral vectors carry... |
The ICC profile format specifies the widely used ICC color profile for transforming color data between different devices and color spaces. Ambiguities in the previous version were resolved in the v4 specification, which also introduced a perceptual reference medium to provide a well-defined intermediate gamut as a targ... |
The FHDL (Florida Hardware Design Language) ROM tools provide a method for specifying, simulating, and automatically laying out ROMs. The primary focus of the ROM tools is on providing powerful methods for specifying microcode. Because the ROM tools were designed to support both VLSI design projects and other course wo... |
The Massachusetts General Colored Association was the most advanced black civil rights organization of its day. In 1830, the MGCA backed a protest against segregated pews in Boston s Park Street Church, an event that provided a crucial opening for the alliance between black abolitionists and William Lloyd Garrison s Ne... |
IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) The IEEE Computer Society produces conference publications for more than 250 acclaimed international conferences each year in a variety of formats, including books, CD-ROMs, USB Drives, and on-line publications. For information about the IEEE Computer Society’s... |
The microstructure and transport critical current of cold rolled, cold uniaxially pressed, and low load hot uniaxially pressed Ag-(Bi,Pb)/sub 2/Sr/sub 2/Ca/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub x/, tape has been investigated. The transverse and longitudinal transport current measurements show strong correlation with morphological non-u... |
only using public key cryptography, but using quantum mechanics as a support. This paper summarizes the current knowledge in the field of two-party cryptographic protocols devised f rom quantum systems. W e introduce the reader to the notion of cryptographic protocols and describe a number of sample building blocks to ... |
The standalone solar power system has long been used to meet the electrical needs of basic building structures. To counter the natural supply–demand imbalance caused by solar energy, standalone solar PV system often include energy storage devices, primarily lead–acid batteries. Due to lead-acid battery limitations, sol... |
We build a theory of black box groups, and apply it to matrix groups over finite fields. Elements of a black box group are encoded by strings of uniform length and group operations are performd by an oracle. Subgroups are given by a list of generators. We prove that for such subgroups, membership and divisor of the ord... |
A 48-year-old woman with generalised atheromatous disease had a right nephrectomy for a renal artery occlusion in 1977. Fourteen months later she presented with severe hypertension and anuria, caused by occlusion of the left renal artery. Emergency reconstructive surgery was successful in bringing about recovery of ren... |
In this article, a modular multilevel dc–dc converter philosophy is proposed which can form an effective interlink to exchange power between line commutated converter (LCC) based high voltage direct current (HVdc) link and voltage source converter-based HVdc grid of same or different voltage levels. The converter exhib... |
The rather abrupt introduction of payors to hospitals and vice versa that started a few years ago has now settled down into a learning situation. To be price competitive in the health insurance marketplace, the payor must obtain full contractual performance in price, administrative and utilization review areas. Hospita... |
In this paper, the Special Theory of Everything is introduced. It is based on the new concepts of information field, information points, and information functions. This article also reviews possible applications of this theory to some famous problems such as Cat Paradox by Schrodinger or the problem of human and God or... |
The article asks about the possibility that there are devices and structures capable of theorising an idea of economics characterised by more human values, which can unite an individual good with a common good. According to authoritative scholars, the economy of capitalism is reaching its natural end. In the next fifty... |
Could we hypothesise that it is possible to form new interpretative paradigms that promote the overcoming of narcissistic and instrumental logic, for the sake of a logic of reciprocity, cooperation and exchange? |
Among the many good practices that are already springing up in this direction, the time and skills bank can be a perfect oxymoron, which brings together two apparently antithetical categories belonging to two different cultures: the monetary one, and that of giving, of sharing. |
Born as a free association between self-organising people who exchange time to help each other in the small needs of everyday life, it is a form of social integration before being an economic model. Today, the time bank is considered a network that practices the economy of relationships and sharing, generating not only... |
The sequenced genomes of the two closely related bacteria Mycoplasma genitalium and Mycoplasma pneumoniae were compared with emphasis on genome organization and coding capacity. All the 470 proposed open reading frames (ORFs) of the smaller M.genitalium genome (580 kb) were contained in the larger genome (816 kb) of M.... |
A woman in her 70s was admitted to our hospital because of epigastric pain and anorexia. Laboratory evaluations revealed elevated levels of liver transaminases, biliary enzymes, and amylase. CT and MRCP showed dilatation of the bile and pancreatic ducts and a large juxtapapillary diverticulum filled with contents. Ther... |
T cell coactivation is a dynamic process subject to integrin-dependent positive and negative regulation. Costimulation of human peripheral blood T cells by CD3 mAb OKT3 in conjunction with anti-alpha 4 has been shown to be down-regulated by the anti-beta 1.1 epitope-specific mAb 18D3. As expected, maximal costimulation... |
A program called GELYMAC takes data on the distances migrated by DNA fragments in a one-dimensional electrophoretic gel and, using a cubic-spline best-fit of marker fragment distance migrated versus molecular size, calculates the molecular sizes of the fragments. Written in the Rascal (Real-time Pascal) programming lan... |
The purpose of this report is to provide school administrators with the ability to determine their security system requirements, so they can make informed decisions when working with vendors and others to improve their security posture. This is accomplished by (1) explaining a systems-based approach to defining the obj... |
Andrew Elby (this issue) argues that researchers in the field of personal epistemology should beware insistence on a narrow definition of epistemology to guide this work. His argument is a response to suggestions (Hofer & Pintrich, 1997; Sandoval, 2005) that the study of personal epistemology should focus on people's v... |
The trend towards more user contributions on the web and an increased interest in social media technology, from both governments and citizens, leads to new potentials and challenges in designing for citizen-government interactions. For several years now, governments have recognised the potential of the web 2.0 to bring... |
The results of a comparative analysis of the dynamic characteristics for minimally redundant clusters of flywheels with respect to the variation domaines for the vectors of their angular momentums and control torques, both in the standard configuration and in case of failure of any one flywheel in their composition, ar... |
BACKGROUND |
To investigate the refractive outcomes of second-eye adjustment (SEA) methods in different intraocular lens (IOL) power calculation formulas for second eye following bilateral sequential cataract surgery. |
METHODS |
This retrospective consecutive case-series study included 234 eyes from 234 patients who underwent bilateral sequential phacoemulsification and implantation of enVista MX60 in a hospital setting. Postoperative refraction outcomes calculated by standard formulas (SRK/T and Barrett Universal II, BUII) with SEA method wer... |
RESULTS |
Overall, the improvement in MedAE after SEA was significant for PEARL DGS (P < 0.01), SRK/T (P < 0.001) and BUII (P = 0.031), which increased from 74.36%, 71.37%, and 77.78% to 83.33%, 80.34%, and 79.49% of eyes within a PE of ±0.50 D, respectively. For first eyes with a medium axial length (22-26 mm), PEARL DGS with S... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Either second-eye adjustment method with SRK/T and BUII formulas or second-eye enhancement method based on the PEARL DGS formula can improve postoperative refractive outcomes in second eye. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Optimal duration of percutaneous microballoon compression for treatmen... |
Percutaneous microballoon compression of the trigeminal ganglion is a brand new operative technique for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. However, it is unclear how the procedure mediates pain relief, and there are no standardized criteria, such as compression pressure, compression time or balloon shape, for the p... |
We prospectively analyzed patients who underwent simultaneous off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting and endarterectomy between March 1, 1997 and February 28, 2002. The incidence of perioperative myocardial infarction, need for inotropic support, morbidity, long-time functional class, and mortality were evaluated. Ni... |
The tremendous advances flexible electronics has experienced have led to the demonstration and - in some cases - commercialization of a plethora of devices, such as foldable displays, ubiquitously integrated sensor systems, and imperceptible implants. All these systems call for specialized analog circuits capable to tr... |
Objectives. This study investigated the importance of environmental influences in explaining weight gain among freshman college students. Methods. We exploited a natural experiment that takes place on most college campuses in the US - randomized dormitory assignments. We estimated the effects of being randomly assigned... |
A novel advanced protection system was developed and demonstrated on SCE's 12 kV Circuit of the Future. This system used fiber optic communications to coordinate the operation of fault interrupting switches located along the circuit. One of the creative components of this project is the study of the circuit with a supe... |
Emergency plan is crucial to efficient fire recuse. Facing with the existing problem of China’s fire fighting and fire emergency plans’ status, this article firstly describes the progress in emergency plan and a variety of emerging Internet of Things technologies in fire rescue, then proposes a new form of fire rescue ... |
An imbalanced gut microbiota predisposes the development of nutritional disorders and chronic gastrointestinal diseases. Several studies have shown improvements on the host's health by enhancing the microbiota with prebiotics that stimulate probiotic microorganisms. This study describes the prebiotic effect of fructans... |
Unveiling the mechanisms that promote coexistence in biological communities is a fundamental problem in ecology. Stable coexistence of many species is commonly observed in natural communities. Most of these natural communities, however, are composed of species from multiple trophic and functional groups, while theory a... |
ABSTRACT Forty-four novel strains of Gammaproteobacteria were cultivated from coastal and pelagic regions of the Pacific Ocean using high-throughput culturing methods that rely on dilution to extinction in very low nutrient media. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the isolates fell into five rRNA clades, all of which c... |
Abstract A treatment of recent criticism of judicial review concentrating on its theoretical consistency, scope and the use it makes of factual premises regarding the composition of judicial argument and the practice of democratic assemblies. Focussing on the work of Jeremy Waldron and Mark Tushnet and to a lesser exte... |
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