... treat-ment method of late hip joint infections. Hip spacers maintain stability of the joint and length of the limb during treatment period. However, as the material strength of bone cement (PMMA) ... ISO 7206-4. Determination of endurance properties of stemmed femoral components with application of torsion. ISO. 1989. 19. Viceconti M, Casali M, Massari B, Cristofolini L, Bassini S, Toni ... be used for the creation of finite element models of the femur. J Biomech. 1996; 29: 1241. 20. Cristofolini L, Viceconti M, Cappello A, Toni A. Mechanical Validation of Whole Bone Composite...
... Institution, (1993), “Draft for Standard Development for Determination of the Indirect Tensile Stiffness Modulus of Bituminous Mixes DD213”, London. FATIGUE BEHAVIOUROF FIBRE REINFORCED ... keying in values of Sbit volume of binder and volume of aggregate. Sbit was also determined from the first part of the BANDS program based on the penetration index and softening point. These ... Resurfacing", Proceedings of the Association of Paving Technologists, Vol.29, pp. 43-80. 8. Hetenyi, M., (1946), “Beam on Elastic Foundations”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 9. Read,...
... of Money Copyright 2011 Pearson Canada Inc.5 - 10Shifts in the Supply of Bonds IãExpected profitability of investment opportunities - in an expansion, the supply curve shifts to the ... higher level of income. ãPrice-Level effect of an increase in the money supply is a rise in interest rates in response to the rise in the price level.ãThe expected-inflation effect of an increase ... - 23Shifts in the Supply of Money IãAssume that the supply of money is controlled by the central bank.ãAn increase in the money supply engineered by the Bank of Canadawill shift the supply...
... that the occur-rence of terms representative of the assembly and disassembly of FDSs inthe classical expression of the density of entropy production are character-istic of living systems.AbbreviationFDS, ... over a wide range of low values of s1has a relatively constant and highrate of consumption of S1but that with higher values of s1drops rapidly to a constant and low rate of con-sumption. ... concentration, s1,ofS1, the absolutevalues (positive) of the steady-state rate of transforma-tion of S1into S3is calculated as corresponding toboth the rate of consumption of S1, v(s1),...
... which prevented the acquisition of ROA data of sufđcient quality for reliable analysis. A ROA spectrum of rather poor quality of an imp ure commercial s ample of a-casein (composition u ndeđned) ... function of these proteins. Although disorder of the PPII type may bean essential r equirement for the formation of r egular ®brils[22], our results s uggest that the presence of a large amount of ... human versions of synucleins, together w ith the A30P and A53T mutants of a-synuclein that cause f amilial c ases of Parkinson's disease.Unfortunately the quality of s ome of these syn uclein...
... executive functions. The core of the procedures is reaction time tasks of low complexityallowing the evaluation of very specific deficiencies. Thetasks consist of simple and easily distinguishable ... the age-related defi-cits in specific compone nts of executive function andmost of these studies were based on a traditional set of tests of executive function, without detailing specificcomponents. ... (MMSE),medication use, and years of education, were constructedto examine the associat ion of the main outcome (relativeDTC of walking) with the EFcomp. The contribution of each variable to the regression...
... structure on thehysteresis of BuChE-catalyzed hydrolysis of BzCh, wevaried the concentration and pH of the phosphate buffersalts and monitored the hysteretic behaviourof the wild-type enzyme ... thestructure of water in the hydration shell of the enzyme activesurface. This indicates that the hysteretic behaviour of BuChE with BzCh is not sensitive to changes in the chemicalpotential of the ... oscillations are not relatedto a pH-dependent Hofmeister effect of phosphate ions.Simulation and theoretical analysis of the oscillatory behaviour of the approach to the steady-state for BuChEled...
... mechanical behaviourof the top layer and the deeperlayers of the skin in a non-invasive manner.The aim of this thesis is to gain a better understanding in the mechanical behaviour of the skin ... themechanical behaviourof different skin layers. To put it differently, a large diameter of thesuction aperture reflects the behaviourof mainly dermis, whereas a ver y small diameterreflects the behaviour ... non-linear mechanical behaviourof this layer. 4 Chapter 1Figure 1.2: Schematic view of the cross-section of the upper part of the human skin showing theepidermis and part of the dermis. The...
... micrograph of the microstructure of alu-minium oxide (Al2O3). The horizontal scale bar has a length of 1 àm. Courtesy of CeramTec ag, Plochingen, GermanyO SiFig. 1.20. Amorphous structure of a ... of one singlecrystal with long-range order, but rather of several crystalline regions calledcrystallites or grains. They have a diameter of the order of a few micrometresup to a fraction of ... deformability of these ceramics.The binding energy of the covalent bond is typically about 1 eV per bond,but reaches a value of 1.85 eV in diamond. Due to the smaller number of near-est neighbours,...
... the significance of carbon loading on diffusion behaviour is minor in comparison with those of temperature. The effect of carbon black constituent on mechanism of penetration of water into the ... of the diffusion behaviourof water and corrosive solution environment in a carbon black filled modified polyethylene using for lining application has shown the predominant role of nature of ... illustrated influence of carbon black loading on diffusion behaviour of water into the polymers. As seen in Table 2, an increase of carbon black loading leads to an increase of M∞ and D. However,...
... two-phase area of water/Pn3m.Theeffect of OG and DM on the phase behaviourof the MO-system can be explained by a consideration of the effectivepacking parameter, resulting upon addition of the sugarsurfactant. ... and from the order of occurrence of thephases formed. The reason for this change in the curvaturecan be understood in terms of a simple geometric considera-tion of the shape of the molecules ... result of the exposure to X-rays, but rather a result of the presence of water which leads to hydrolysis of MO [14].ResultsCubic phasesCubic liquid crystalline phases with a number of differentstructures...
... analy-sis to profile alterations of lipid raft- associated proteinsin the spinal cord of the G93A SOD1 transgenic mousemodel of ALS. Alterations of a consortium of 67 lipid raft- associated proteins ... effective enrichment of lipid raft proteins using the centrifugation protocol.Proteomic analysis of mouse spinal cordlipid raftsTo identify proteins in lipid rafts, purified lipid raft fractions ... analyses of the lipid raft sample isolated from the same mouse; and (b) theprotein was consistently identified in the independentFig. 1. Evaluation of the isolation of lipid raft proteins. Lipid raft proteins...
... (2006): Country profile: Romania. Available at: valuable resources and examples of best practice in the area of the perception of health information. The quality and quantity of health information ... number of private practices which are well-equipped and offer a higher level of health care. Private health insurance has developed slowly. Because of low public funding, about 36 percent of the ... Taking account of the variety of approaches observable in European countries, the idea has arisen of starting a multinational project to develop new solutions to the problem of implementing...
... older people’s behaviour. Furthermore, ourresults show that these metrics can be a goodpredictor of the behaviourof different types of users, which provides evidence for the validity of current ... populations. This is presumably dueto the lack of corpora for different types of users.In this paper we focus on the behaviourof oldervs. younger adults. Most of the work to date on di-alogue systems ... people. The actions of the younger people are a subset of the actions of theolder people.We built n-grams of system and user actions withn varying from 2 to 5. Given a history of system anduser...
... be composed of many thousands of compounds, the phase behaviour fundamentals can be explained by examining the behaviourof pure and simple multicomponent mixtures. The behaviourof all real ... interstitial form. The influence of water on the phase behaviour and properties of hydrocarbon fluids in most cases is of a minor consideration. The phase behaviourof oil and gas, therefore, is ... = initial number of moles number of moles of gas produced molecular weight of gas at equilibrium with condensate mole fraction of component i in condensate mole fraction of component i in...