Nanoporous magnesium-zinc-silicon (n-MZS) xerogels with a pore size ∼4 nm, a surface area of 718 cm(2)/g, and a pore volume of 1.24 cm(3)/g were synthesized by a sol-gel method. The n-MZS xerogels had high capacity to load vancomycin hydrochloride (VH) and human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2), after soaking in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) for 24 hours (1.5 and 0.8 mg/g, respectively)...

The pattern of VH gene family expression in the primary B cell repertoire of the mouse is strain dependent. In C57Bl/6 mice, the VH J558 family is expressed by more than 45% of the cells, while the expression of VH 7183, VH Q52, and VH 36-60 families together does not exceed 20%. In BALB/c mice, relative expression of VH J558 is lower than 35%, while the sum of the other three families reaches ...

OBJECTIVE to compare the results of two surgical approaches: one is to apply vaginal hysterectomy (VH) for non-prolapsed uterus respecting classic indications and contraindications and the other is to extend the indications of VH and decrease the contraindications by performing VH for large uterus, in nulliparous and in women with history of C section. STUDY DESIGN 816 women with benign uteri...

This paper investigates the impacts of assimilating measurements of different state variables, which can be potentially available from various observational platforms, on the cycled analysis and short-range forecast of supercell thunderstorms by performing a set of observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) using a storm-scale three-dimensional variational data assimilation (3DVAR) method....

where gh is an approximation of g and V 0 h ⊂ H 1 0 (Ω) is a finite element subspace. In practice, gh is considered to be a nodal interpolation of g in Vh|∂Ω, where Vh ⊂ H(Ω) is a finite element subspace. However it is shown in [4] that the error estimates for (3) are better when gh is chosen to be the L2-projection of g onto Vh|∂Ω. In particular when gh is chosen to be a nodal interpolation, t...

Visual hallucinations (VH) are common in Parkinson's disease (PD) and are hypothesized to be due to impaired visual perception and attention deficits. We investigated whether PD patients with VH showed attention deficits, a more specific impairment of higher order visual perception, or both. Forty-two volunteers participated in this study, including 14 PD patients with VH, 14 PD patients withou...

INTRODUCTION Uterine leiomyomas are the most common benign tumors of the female reproductive system. Although the majority of myomas are asymptomatic, some patients have symptoms or signs of varying degrees and require a hysterectomy. THE AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of the study was to compare the clinical results of two minimally invasive hysterectomy techniques: vaginal hysterectomy (VH) and l...

Laypeople and healthcare professionals use demographic cues when making pain management decisions. These decisions can negatively affect patient outcomes. This study examined whether laypeople base their pain management decisions in part on pain-related postures and demographic cues. Virtual human (VH) technology was used to research whether sex and race, as well as body posture, influenced pai...

The complete nucleotide sequence of the 957-kb DNA of the human immunoglobulin heavy chain variable (VH) region locus was determined and 43 novel VH segments were identified. The region contains 123 VH segments classifiable into seven different families, of which 79 are pseudogenes. Of the 44 VH segments with an open reading frame, 39 are expressed as heavy chain proteins and 1 as mRNA, while t...

Assume that Vh is a space of piecewise polynomials of degree less than r ≥ 1 on a family of quasi-uniform triangulation of size h. Then the following well-known upper bound holds for a sufficiently smooth function u and p ∈ [1,∞] inf vh∈Vh ‖u− vh‖j,p,Ω,h ≤ Ch |u|r,p,Ω, 0 ≤ j ≤ r. In this paper, we prove that, roughly speaking, if u 6∈ Vh, the above estimate is sharp. Namely, inf vh∈Vh ‖u− vh‖j,...