Authors' objectives This Assessment evaluates whether extracorporeal shock wave treatment (ESWT) improves health outcomes for patients with lateral epicondylitis that is unresponsive to conservative treatment. This Assessment updates the 2003 TEC Assessment, which concluded that ESWT did not meet the TEC criteria for treatment of chronic lateral epicondylitis. The purpose of this Assessment is ...

We evaluate the performance of transcoding-enabled streaming media caching proxy system (TeC). TeC is designed for efficient delivery of rich media web contents to heterogeneous network environments and client capabilities. Depending on the connection speed and processing capability of an end user, the proxy transcodes the requested (and possibly cached) video into an appropriate format and del...

The estimation of Total Electron Content (TEC) in the equatorial ionosphere using GPS presents a number of challenges due to the presence of strong spatio-temporal density gradients and scintillation of the satellite signals caused by F-region irregularities. In this paper we describe a methodology for real-time calibrated TEC estimation in the presence of scintillation and a highly structured ...

the least squares harmonic estimation is applied to the hourly time-series of total electron contents (tec) derived from ionospheric models using seven years of gps observations processed by bernese software. the frequencies of dominant spectral components in the spectrum are estimated. we observe significant periodic patterns with periods of 24 h and its fractions 24h/n, n=2,…,11, which are th...

Several peptide growth factors, including members of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) superfamily, are potential inducers of mesoderm in vertebrates. Receptor binding of basic FGF (FGF-2) is promoted by cell surface or extracellular matrix proteoglycans. The substantial biosynthesis of proteoglycans by embryonic cells (called embryoglycans) and their potential role as ligands for growth facto...

T cell precursors homed to thymus develop in close contact with stromal cells. Among them, thymic epithelial cells (TEC) are known to exert dominant roles in their survival and functional shaping. Key molecules mediating TEC/thymocytes interactions include cytokines and growth factors secreted by the two cell types and adhesion receptors mediating cell contact. Signaling events triggered in thy...

This article examines whether there are gender differences in understanding the emotions evaluated by the Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC). The TEC provides a global index of emotion comprehension in children 3-11 years of age, which is the sum of the nine components that constitute emotion comprehension: (1) recognition of facial expressions, (2) understanding of external causes of emotions...

Thymic epithelial cells are an important source of cytokines and other regulatory peptides which guide thymocyte proliferation and maturation. Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP), a cytokine-like peptide, has been reported to affect the proliferation of lymphocytes in vitro. The studies presented here were undertaken to test the hypotheses that PTHrP is produced locally within the thymu...

Kidney tubular epithelial cell (TEC) death may be dependent on the number and activation state of macrophages (M phi) during inflammation. Our prior studies indicate that activated M phi release soluble mediators that incite TEC death, and reducing intrarenal M phi during kidney disease diminishes TEC apoptosis. CSF-1 is required for M phi proliferation and survival. We hypothesized that in the...