We performed a prospective study of sixty-two patients who were managed with a closed core needle biopsy in an outpatient clinic for a soft-tissue mass or a bone tumor with soft-tissue extension between August 1, 1992, and June 1, 1994. Eight (13 percent) of the closed core needle biopsies yielded no neoplastic tissue. Two needle biopsies (3 percent), which were of myxomatous masses, did not al...

AIM The purpose of this clinical and radiographic investigation was to evaluate the treatment outcomes of endodontically treated teeth obturated with Soft-Core versus cold lateral compaction. METHODS AND MATERIALS A total of 98 teeth were endodontically prepared using the Quantec LX rotary system with a crown-down pressureless technique and obturated with either Soft-Core or cold lateral comp...

60 0740-7475/00/$10.00 © 2000 IEEE IEEE Design & Test of Computers Major technologic and economic factors are driving a revolution in computer and communication system design. Networking applications like network processors, routers on chips and home gateways, portable products like wireless telephones and internet appliances, multimedia products like set-top boxes, and embedded controllers in ...

A necessary step prior to starting any membrane protein computer simulation is the creation of a well-packed configuration of protein(s) and lipids. Here, we demonstrate a method, alchembed, that can simultaneously and rapidly embed multiple proteins into arrangements of lipids described using either atomistic or coarse-grained force fields. During a short simulation, the interactions between t...

The fields of rational drug design and protein engineering benefit from accurate free energy calculations based on molecular dynamics simulations. A thermodynamic integration scheme is often used to calculate changes in the free energy of a system by integrating the change of the system's Hamiltonian with respect to a coupling parameter. These methods exploit nonphysical pathways over thermodyn...

*Correspondence: Makoto Yasutomi, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara-Cho 903-0213, Japan e-mail: [email protected] Although the density anomaly of liquid water has long been studied by many different authors, it is still not clear what thermodynamic mechanism induces the anomaly. The thermodynamic properties of substances ...

Adults process others’ actions with apparent ease, despite the complexity involved. Expertise seems key, yet little is known about how expertise alters action processing. Perhaps expertise reshapes how attention is allocated as actions unfold. We investigated this possibility using Hard, Recchia, & Tversky’s (2011) “dwell-time paradigm:” viewers advance through slideshows extracted from a digit...