To improve the treatments for low back pain, new designs of total disk replacement have been proposed. The question is how well these designs can act as a functional replacement of the intervertebral disk. Four finite element models were made, for four different design concepts, to determine how well they can mimic the physiological intervertebral disk mechanical function. The four designs were...

The homologous venom allergen Ag 5s from the yellow jacket (Vespula vulgaris) and paper wasp (Polistes annularis) have 59% sequence identity of their respective 204 and 205 amino acid residues, and they have low degrees of antigenic cross-reactivity in insect allergic patients and in animal models. Hybrids containing different segments of these two vespid Ag 5s were expressed in yeast. Circular...

This paper is the result of research and contemplation on the actual usefulness of topology-based methods in real-world applications. We recapitulate commonly used arguments in favor of topology-based approaches first to realign our expectations with respect to the utilization of topology extraction in the context of concrete applications. To illustrate some of our considerations, we take a clo...

The fate is described of 11 patients who had a stored pulmonary valve homograft mounted on a frame or in a Dacron jacket used for mitral valve replacement. Mitral regurgitation due to holes in the attenuated cusps occurred in nine by one year, requiring re-operation or causing death. Only one patient remains well with moderate mitral regurgitation after two years. Since January 1967, 118 patien...

Abstract Rehabilitation, upgrading, or strengthening of structural members, especially columns, has become the target many researchers because columns are most important members in a building and failure causes direct collapse building. This study aims to get an assessment best pattern steel-framed jacket used for axially loaded concrete by numerically studying behavior column different cases s...

This paper presents the propagation of dual-band diamond dipole antenna on three various jackets. The jackets are purely fleece fabric with Shieldit patches top it. network analyzers flexible lossless coaxial cable used to measure communication antennas. experiment involves a man ideal body mass index (BMI) wearing by placing antennas It is observed that best on-body engineered jacket. 10 dB im...

A 57-year-old male visited our clinic with chief complaint of exertional chest pain. He had been on anti-hypertensive medication for 15 years. In 1999, he went through coronary artery bypass graft surgery for myocardial infarction, using an aorto-left anterior descending artery (LAD) bypass with the left internal mammary artery, and aorto-right coronary artery (RCA) bypass with saphenous vein. ...