Osteoporosis is a metabolic skeletal disease characterized by an imbalance between osteoclast-mediated bone resorption and osteoblast-mediated bone formation. We examined the beneficial effect of shock waves (SW) alone or in combination with raloxifene (RAL) on bone loss in ovariectomized rats (OVX). Sixteen weeks after surgery, OVX were treated for five weeks with SW at the antero-lateral side...

[1] Achieving a representative elementary volume (REV) has become a de facto criterion for demonstrating the quality of lCT measurements in porous media systems. However, the data quality implications of an REV requirement have not been previously examined. In this work, deterministic REVs for porosity, moisture saturation (SW), and air-water interfacial area (AI) were estimated using a set of ...

BACKGROUND Increasing evidence supports selective/incomplete (SE) or stepwise (SW) instead of non-selective/complete tissue removal for deep carious lesions in vital teeth, mainly as pulpal risks are significantly reduced. Our aims were to analyze the proportion of dentists who utilize SE/SW for deep lesions in permanent teeth and to identify barriers and facilitators of utilizing SE/SW. METH...

Pacific salmon migrate from ocean through the natal river for spawning. Information on expression of genes encoding osmoregulatory hormones and migratory behavior is important for understanding of molecular events that underlie osmoregulation of homing salmon. In the present article, regulation of gene expression for osmoregulatory hormones in pre-spawning salmon was briefly reviewed with speci...

BACKGROUND Intramyocardial hemorrhage (IMH) identified by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an established prognostic marker following acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Detection of IMH by T2-weighted or T2 star CMR can be limited by long breath hold times and sensitivity to artefacts, especially at 3T. We compared the image quality and diagnostic ability of susceptibility-weighted ma...

B.W. Pickering ; V. Herasevich ; A. Ahmed; O. Gajic Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905; Multidisciplinary Epidemiology a...

Dieser Vortrag stellt die SW-Entwicklung für sicherheitsrelevante Systeme anhand eines Beispielprojektes aus der Automobilindustrie vor. Dieses BMW-Vorentwicklungsprojekt aus der Domäne der Fahrwerksregelelektronik beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung von HWund SW-Architekturen, mit einer neuen Bustechnologie (FlexRay) zur sicheren Datenkommunikation, mit der Realisierung einer sicheren Energie...

1Department of Pediatrics, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Merkur, Zagreb, Croatia, 3Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 4Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, ...

The resolution of conventional surface-plasmon-resonance (SPR) imaging has been limited by the diffraction nature of light. A wide-field extended-resolution optical imaging technique, standing-wave SPR fluorescence (SW-SPRF) microscopy, has been developed. Based on evanescent SPR standing waves, SW-SPRF provides lateral resolution approaching 100 nm and offers the advantages of significant sign...

Abstract Chemical enhanced oil recovery applications continue to face a variety of obstacles, particularly in high saline and high-temperature reservoirs, addition chemical prices. This issue creates difficulty developing optimal recipes that can withstand these extreme circumstances so achieve maximal hydrocarbon at the lowest feasible cost. The usefulness surfactant polymer (SP) mobilizing in...