STUDY DESIGN Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study OBJECTIVE.: Identify the pathoanatomical features of the cervical spine associated with congenital stenosis SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA.: Congenital cervical stenosis (CCS) describes a patient with a decreased spinal canal diameter at multiple levels of the cervical spine in the absence of degenerative changes. Despite recognition of CCS throughou...

BACKGROUND To improve the translation of public health evidence into practice, there is a need to increase practitioner involvement in initiative development, to place greater emphasis on contextual knowledge, and to address intervention processes and outcomes. Evidence that demonstrates the need to reduce childhood fire-related injuries is compelling but its translation into practice is incons...

A new method for text localization in cover color pages and general color document images is presented. The colors of the document image are reduced to a small number using a color reduction technique based on a Kohonen Self Organized Map (KSOM) neural network. Each color defines a color plane in which the connected components (CCs) are extracted. In each color plane a CC filtering procedure is...

It is suggested metal-rich carbonaceous chondrites (CCs), CB, CH and Isheyevo, contain various proportions of chondritic components (CAIs, chondrules, metal) formed (i) by melting, evaporation, and condensation processes in an impact plume resulted from a planetary-scale collision, and (ii) by thermal processing of dust aggregates in the protoplanetary disk (PPD) [1−4]. The impact-plume product...

We present new observational data on the small scale structure of the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TMC-1) in the regime of 0.02-0.04 PC and 0.04 -0.6 Mo. Our analysis is based on high resolution, high signal-to-noise, observations of an 8’x8’ area centered on the “cyanopolyyne peak” in the SE part of the TMC-1 ridge. The observations were made in the CCS 22 GHz and 45 GHz transitions using NASA’s ...

STUDY QUESTION Is the phosphoinositol 1,3-kinase/protein kinase B (PI3K/AKT) pathway expression profile in cumulus cells (CCs) a potential marker of oocyte competence and predictive of pregnancy outcome? SUMMARY ANSWER Eleven genes (AKT1, ARHGEF7, BCL2L1, CCND1, E2F1, HRAS, KCNH2, PIK3C2A, SHC1, SOS1 and SPP1) in the PI3K/AKT pathway were significantly down-regulated in CCs from oocytes that ...

BACKGROUND For current tissue engineering or regenerative medicine strategies, chondrocyte (CC)- or mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-seeded constructs are typically cultured in normoxic conditions (20% oxygen). However, within the knee joint capsule a lower oxygen tension exists. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate how CCs and infrapatellar fad pad derived MSCs will respond to...

increasing demands for cement, iron and steel industries for refractories with suitable workability in severeconditions (without any environmental risks), make the refractories’ researches to be an active area. refractories containing spinel has been developed with addition of chromia as a substitute in refractories using magnesite - chromite. in this research, different amounts of cr2o3 were a...

A slew of semantic image content analysis techniques are specialized in extracting text embedded in images since it is a vital source of semantic information. A robust text detection step is the basic requirement for a scheme designed to extract text information from images. Text detection is still a challenging issue due to unconstrained color, sizes, alignments of characters, lighting and als...

Calcareous sand is developed by the fracture of marine biological skeleton under impact seawater. not transported in process deposition. Therefore, calcareous retains characteristics skeleton, low strength, and porous. In order to study effect nanoclay cement on modification sand, a series tests were carried out modified (CCS) with different content nanoclay. this study, triaxial mechanical pro...