Phenotypic variation results from the balance between sources of variation and counteracting regulatory mechanisms. Canalization and developmental stability are two such mechanisms, acting at two different levels of regulation. The issue of whether or not they act concurrently as a common developmental buffering capacity has been subject to debate. We used geometric morphometrics to quantify th...

Pull out tests for bone anchors used in surgical robotics were performed to prove the strength of the bone anchor -bone combination. Forces and displacement were measured to evaluate the suitability of the bone anchors as a connection between a surgical robot and bone. A universal experimental setup was designed to conduct the pull out tests. As specimens, human cranial cadaver bone, porcine ca...

BACKGROUND Surgeons can control not only the angle but also the depth of suture anchor placement during arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, although the tendency may be to place suture anchors on the deep side to avoid damage from prominent anchor eyelets. However, little information is available regarding possible effects of suture anchor depth on construct failure mechanisms. HYPOTHESIS Ancho...

We introduce a novel model-agnostic system that explains the behavior of complex models with high-precision rules called anchors, representing local, “sufficient” conditions for predictions. We propose an algorithm to efficiently compute these explanations for any black-box model with high-probability guarantees. We demonstrate the flexibility of anchors by explaining a myriad of different mode...

This paper focuses on the definition of anchors and links for nested composite nodes, that is, composite nodes containing other composite nodes. It considers questions such as link inheritance and node reference, which become fairly complex in the presence of nested compositions. Then, the paper extends the discussion to include virtual anchors and links, defined by expressions in an appropriat...

The various types of suture anchors have become widely accepted in the orthopaedic shoulder surgery. The common uses being for Bankarts repair and rotator cuff repair. The use of suture anchors in orthopaedic surgery for indications other than shoulder surgery is sparsely reported in the literature. We report on our observations from a single centre following use of anchors outside the shoulder...

DCU participated in the English to Chinese (C2E) and Chinese to English (C2E) subtasks of the NTCIR 10 CrossLink2 Cross-lingual Link Discovery (CLLD) task. Our strategy for each query involved extracting potential link anchors as n-gram strings, cleaning of potential anchor strings, and anchor expansion and ranking to select a set of anchors for the query. Potential anchors were translated usin...

It has long been appreciated that the oocyte cortex plays a key role in regulating fertilization and establishing embryonic polarity. Recent studies have identified the anti-phosphatase EGG-3 as a cortical anchor for regulatory proteins required for launching embryogenesis in Caenhorhabditis elegans.

We determined the acyl and alkyl chain composition of GPI-anchors isolated from MDCK and Fischer rat thyroid (FRT) cells. Both cell lines synthesize GPI-anchors containing C16/C18 or C18/C18 saturated acyl and alkyl chains. The GPI-anchored placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) expressed in both cells is raft-associated and PLAP purified from FRT cells is raft-associated in vitro when reconstit...

Although there is great interest in the improving the ability to track patients' change over time in routine clinical care settings, no standardized transdiagnostic measure is currently available for busy clinicians to apply. The Clinical Global Impression (CGI) scales are simple measures widely used as outcomes in psychiatric clinical trials. However, the CGI suffers from poorly defined scorin...