Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcing bars have aTtracted considerable 0llellli0l1 for applications where corrosion of steel reinforcement is problemaric. Due 10 rhe generally low elastic modulus and poor bond clwracreristics of FRP as coil/pared 10 steel reinforcing bars, the use of FRP results in IGI:i?er crack widlhs under senJice loads. Fiber-reinforced concrete (FRe) is proposed for u...

Electrical Impe.ance Myography 5EIM6 is a nonin9asi9e, painless clinical techni;ue for the .iagnosis an. monitoring of a 9ariety of neuromuscular .iseases inclu.ing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis an. focal ner9e in>uries? It in9ol9es the application of a lo@-intensity alternating current to a muscle group an. the measurement of the conse;uent surface 9oltage patterns? This paper presents a syste...

We have constructed a series of "synthetic" target cell lines for an analysis of the specificity of anti-Friend virus (FV) CTL. Our results show that murine H-2 genes and individual retroviral genes can be stable expressed in Fisher rat embryo (FRE) cells, and that their products have the potential to form target structures recognized by mouse CTL. Cells expressing H-2Db and either the env or g...

A method for the first-order analysis of the point registration problem is presented and validated. The method is a unified approach to the problem that allows for inhomogeneous and anisotropic fiducial localization error (FLE) and arbitrary weighting in the registration algorithm. Cross-covariance matrices are derived both for target registration error (TRE) and for weighted fiducial registrat...

BACKGROUND There is a need for a clinically useful, quantitative index for measurement of disease activity in cats with chronic enteropathy (CE). OBJECTIVE To develop a numerical activity index that is of practical value to clinicians treating CE in cats. ANIMALS Eighty-two cats with CE. METHODS Retrospective case review of 59 cats diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Prospect...

Fiducial-based rigid registration is the preferred method for aligning the preoperative image with the intra-operative physical anatomy in existing image-guided surgery systems. After registration, the targets locations usually cannot be measured directly, so the Target Registration Error (TRE) is often estimated with the Fiducial Registration Error (FRE), or with Fitzpatrick TRE (FTRE) estimat...

Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2), a member of the FGF family, positively regulates bone formation and osteoblast differentiation. Bone sialoprotein (BSP) is highly expressed during early bone formation and may play a role in primary mineralization of bone. In the present study, FGF2 (10 ng/mL) was found to increase the levels of Runx2 and BSP mRNA at 3 and 12 h in human osteoblast-like Saos2 c...

with impervious exteriors, such as shells or chitinous exoskeletons. Advantages to this method are high throughput, high success rate and enough template DNA for several different assays (FRE-PCR used only 5 μL of the 20-μL supernatant). Other extraction methods that were tried and discarded for low success rates included boiling in water or PCR buffer, grinding before boiling, grinding with co...