PURPOSE To review treatments for osteoarthritis of the knee (OAK) received by patients across five European countries, and to obtain patients' perceptions and willingness to pay for current treatments. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective, internet-based, double-blind survey of adults with OAK was conducted in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The questionnaire included que...

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC0500OR22725. The research was funded by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s State Partnerships Program and by the South Carolina State Energy Office. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the South Carolina Stat...

Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, O Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA. E Department of Electrical Engineering and C at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, 37931, USA Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA Department of Electrical and Computer Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA † Electronic supplementary informa 10.1039/c3tc30535j ‡ These authors (M. S. and S. D...

N. Michel, W. Nazarewicz, M. P loszajczak † Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA ‡ Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA ¶ Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA $ Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, ul. Hoża 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland § Grand Accélérate...

Imaging in Alcator C-Mod and Comparison with Full-Wave Simulations N. Tsujii, a) M. Porkolab, P. T. Bonoli, Y. Lin, J. C. Wright, S. J. Wukitch, E. F. Jaeger, D. L. Green, and R. W. Harvey MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA XCEL Engineering, Inc., Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA CompX, Del Mar,...

In the study were presented data for comparison of antibacterial activities between long time stored acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia L.), multifloral and oak (Quercus spp.) honeydew honeys towards Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 9144). The results showed that the antibacterial activity of oak honeydew and multifloral honeys was much higher in comparison with acacia honeys with the lowest antibacterial...

The long-standing interest in regenerating oaks stimulated the development of a number of research studies during the past several decades. Most studies have focused on addressing oak regeneration problems and many of these suggested that oak regeneration failures occur where site conditions favor the establishment and growth of competing species that capture the growing space following crown r...

Global warming accelerates decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC) pools with varying rates and temperature sensitivities. Black carbon (BC) materials are among the slowest decomposing components of the SOC pool. Although BC is a large component of SOC in many systems, the influence of temperature on decomposition of BC bearing different chemical and physical structures remains poorly unders...

Several hurricanes struck Florida, U.S. in 2004 and 2005 causing widespread damage to urban and rural areas. We measured the impacts of five of these hurricanes on the urban forest and combined these results with four other hurricanes to present an assessment of wind resistance for southeastern United States coastal plain tree species. Urban forest loss was positively correlated with wind speed...