Insects possess adhesive organs that allow attachment to diverse surfaces. Efficient adhesion must be retained throughout their lifetime even when pads are exposed to contamination. Many insects groom their adhesive structures, but it is possible that self-cleaning properties also play an important role. We measured attachment forces of insect pads on glass after contamination with microspheres...

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal tools that allow competent individuals to declare preferences for future mental health treatment when they may not be capable of doing so as a result of a psychiatric crisis. PADs allow individuals to maintain self-determination during times when they are most vulnerable to loss of autonomy and in need of assistance to make their preferences known...

This paper introduces a notion of data ows and mode declarations for IntelligentPad, a kind of component softwares. The mode speci es how component pads are used for testing the behavior of composite pads. Under the constraints obtained from a family of mode declarations, we present an expansion procedure to generate hypothetical composite pads. An experimental result shows that the usages of m...

Objective: To evaluate the shear bond strength of lingual orthodontic brackets with resin or metal pads, the location of bond failure and the adhesive remnant index (ARI). Methods: A total of 40 extracted upper premolars were randomly divided into two groups of 20 each: bonding with brackets having (1) pads with extended resin directly on the lingual surface of teeth, and (2) pads with metal...

We evaluate two coordinate transformation techniques in combination with grid stretching for pricing basket options in a sparse grid setting. The sparse grid technique is a basic technique for solving a high-dimensional partial differential equation. By creating a small hypercube sub-grid in the ‘composite’ sparse grid we can also determine hedge parameters accurately. We evaluate these techniq...

In this study, we used lentiviral-delivered shRNA to generate a clonal line of 3T3-F442A preadipocytes with stable silencing of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) expression and examined the long-term consequence of this modification on fat pad development. HGF mRNA expression was reduced 94%, and HGF secretion 79% (P < 0.01), compared with preadipocytes treated with nontargeting shRNA. Fat pads de...

BACKGROUND Patients with prominent periorbital fat pads often complain of having a persistent "tired" look and seek treatment from their dermatologist. OBJECTIVE A non-surgical treatment of fat pads. METHODS Thirty patients were treated for prominent lower eyelid fat pads with phosphatidylcholine injection. Pre- and posttreatment photographs were taken for long-term analysis. RESULTS A ma...

INTRODUCTION: It has been shown that high-permittivity dielectric pads can be used to efficiently improve the field homogeneity in the region of interest (ROI) in high-field MRI [1-8]. Recent studies focused on the design of these pads by controlling parameters such as size, position and permittivity, using simple patient specific parameter sweeping to improve the transmit field in a small regi...