Beginning in 2004, much progress has been made towards the determination of |Vus| using new measurements of branching ratios, lifetimes and form factor parameters in semileptonic kaon decays. My discussion here concentrates on some presently unsatisfactory aspects about these measurements, especially the attempts to determine strongly correlated parameters that leads to strong fluctuations. The...

Premature opening of the pulmonary valve (opening independent of atrial or ventricular systole) was originally described in a case of sinus of Valsalva rupture into the right atrium. Since that time we have observed five additional cases in which the pulmonary valve opened prematurely. Entities encountered included: 1) constrictive pericarditis; 2) Loeffler's endocarditis; 3) Ebstein's anomaly ...

There are two different commonly-used evaluation methods for functional languages: normal-order graph reduction, and call-by-value execution of closure code. The former is usually more expensive per operation, but has the capability of partially evaluating functions before they are applied. The latter method usually leads to faster execution — and is thus used in most compilers — but can’t ‘‘op...

A 45-year-old woman was referred with a complaint of imited mouth opening. The restriction had progressively ncreased after the removal of the right lower third molar 2 onths earlier. After tooth removal, the treatment for trisus consisted of analgesic, muscle relaxants, and mechantherapy. Past medical history revealed a left nephrectomy 1 years ago and the loss of 15 kg during the past 4 month...

1. Introduction Important goals for hypermedia information systems are that users, independent of their geographical location, can be given coordinated on-line access to material that is contained in multiple information databases, that they can later (re-)use extracts from the material already displayed, and that the other applications they use can also interact with the information. In other ...

9.05 Information guided surgery using workflow descriptions Due to the variety of anatomy and pathology of patients, parameters and the structure of the surgical process vary greatly. Therefore, optimal usage of complex robot assisted surgical systems is currently limited by the lack of continuous information support. An patient related configurable workflow plan will be used as a reference. Ch...

A panel of 21 small cell lung cancer cell (SCLC) lines were examined for the presence of

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In the present study, plasticity induced crack closure (PICC) concept and three dimensional (3D) finite element methods (FEM) are used to study the effect of compressive residual stress field on the fatigue crack growth from a hole. To investigate the effect of compressive residual stress on crack opening levels and crack shape evolution, Carlson’s experiments were simulated. Crack shape evolut...