... ring and middle
fingers were selected for indentations with a testing
machine. The force-displaceme nt curves were obtained
on both the flat hand position, which represents tapping
or caressing ... human hand have high contact forces dur-
ing handshake. The experiments were limited to male-
to-male handshake in light of the earlier findings in [22]
that handshakes are more frequent...
... Machine-Based
Exercise
Individualized exercise routines are effective for coping
with gradual variations in the physical work capacity and
for sustaining the motivation to exercise [1]. In machine-
based ... felt that
continuously changing the workload patterns was inter-
esting. The overall results showed that an individualized
exercise routine was ensured with the wearable un...
... dyspnea
and abdominal swelling
1570 Total hysterectomy and bilateral Salpingo-
oophorectomy
Well, 5 months
Long CY
et a.l
(10)
253
78
Both with abdominal swelling,
pain, or dyspnea
233
335
Both with ... seen with ascites of benign
origin. An ovarian mass with ascites and elevated serum
CA 125 level in a woman generally suggest a malignancy
process. So the present case with t...
... Unfortu-
nately, the linearity assumption does not hold any more
for this kind of loudspeakers, leading to computationally
demanding nonlinear cancellation and equalization algo-
rithms.
Since standard design ... High Complexity: Prototyping and
Industrial Design
Markus Rupp,
1
Thomas Kaiser,
2
Jean-Francois Nezan,
3
and Gerhard Schmidt
4
1
Institute for Communication and RF Engineeri...
... discharge testing is not a gen-
eral clinical practice in China, it was not used in this study.
Results
Among the 284 cases included in this study, 139 cases had
prelingual hearing loss, including 94 ... hearing impairment in mainland
China. GJB2 and SLC26A4 are the two most common eti-
ologies for deafness in the Chinese population. A prelim-
inary investigation of the mutation s...
... studies
have expanded this finding to situations of inflammation
[44], and peripheral tissue injury [45-47]. Hematopoietic
stem cells are being increasingly recognized as having
diverse non-hematopoietic ... functions including produc-
tion of angiogenic cytokines [48], and acting as an
“innate” immune cell capable of rapidly differentiating
into dendritic cells for protection of the host...
... ratings of
items that pertained to that dimension, after the score of
each dimension was transformed linearly to a 0–100
point scale, with 100 indicating the best HRQoL and 0 the
worst. Both instruments ... manuscript. Financial
support for this study was provided by the Rotterdamse Vereniging
Blindenbelangen, Stichting Wees een Zegen, Stichting Blindenhulp and
Stichting Blinden-...
... observations showing that, in certain cell
lines, RAR and RXR inhibit COX-2 promoter activity
[30,31]. Finally, our own studies in renal mesangial cells
indicate that RARs are involved in ATRA-induced ... along with the
production of prostaglandins like prostaglandin E
2
(PGE
2
) [1]. Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) is also up-regulated fol-
lowing inflammation and induces up-regulation...