OBJECTIVE To identify the collagen type IV (Col4) isoform in articular cartilage and to evaluate the expressions of Col4 and laminin in the pericellular matrix (PCM) in damaged cartilage and during cartilage repair. DESIGN The Col4 isoform was determined in chondrocytes isolated from 6 patients cultured up to 6 days and in 21% O2 or 1% O2, and the gene expression of Col4 α-chains was investig...

in some statistical process control applications, the quality of the product is characterized by thecombination of both correlated variable and attributes quality characteristics. in this paper, we propose anovel control scheme based on the combination of two multi-layer perceptron neural networks forsimultaneous monitoring of mean vector as well as the covariance matrix in multivariate-attribu...

Aircraft sensors are typically cable powered, imposing a significant weight overhead. The exploitation of temperature variations during flight by a phase change material (PCM) based heat storage thermoelectric energy harvester, as an alternative power source in aeronautical applications, has recently been flight tested. In this work, a scaled-down and a scaled-up prototype are presented. Output...

In this paper, we present a SRAM-PCM hybrid cache design, along with a cache replacement policy, named dead fast block (DFB) to manage the hybrid cache. This design aims to leverage the best features of both SRAM and PCM devices. Compared to a PCM-only cache, the hybrid cache with DFB policy provides superior results on all relevant evaluation metrics, viz. cache lifetime, performance and energ...

In this paper, we study the performance of the PCM scheme with linear quantization rule for quantizing finite unit-norm tight frame expansions for R and derive the PCM quantization error without the White Noise Hypothesis. We prove that for the class of unit norm tight frames derived from uniform frame paths the quantization error has an upper bound of O(δ) regardless of the frame redundancy. T...

The fuzzy c-means (FCM) has been a well-known algorithm in machine learning/data mining area as a clustering algorithm. It can also be used for image segmentation, but the algorithm is not robust to noise. The possibilistic c-means (PCM) algorithm was proposed to overcome such a problem. However, the performance of PCM is too sensitive to the initialization of cluster centers, and often deterio...

INTRODUCTION Lornoxicam (LORN) a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug of oxicam class is marketed in combination with Paracetamol, a common analgesic for acute inflammatory disease of joints. MATERIALS AND METHODS LORN and Paracetamol (PCM) were estimated at 280 nm by densitometry using silica gel 60 F254 as stationary phase and a premix of toluene: chloroform: methanol: formic acid (3:5:1.5:0....

Three composite phase change materials (PCMs) were prepared by blending butyl stearate, dodecanol and RT20 with an organically modified montmorillonite (MMT), respectively. After the three composite PCMs were characterized by DSC, it was indicated that the RT20/MMT composite PCM was a good candidate for building applications due to its large latent heat, suitable phase change temperature and go...

A key concept of model-driven software development is the transformation of models into other models or source code. ProtoCom is such a transformation that generates a performance prototype from a Palladio Component Model (PCM) instance by means of a model-to-text transformation. The actual supported platform, on which the PCM instance is mapped, is Java SE. Even though related work suggests th...