[Purpose] A number of different stimulation devices are used in basic and clinical research studies, and their frequencies of use vary. However, whether or not they are equally effective has not been investigated. The purpose of the present study was to investigate neural activity in the brain during the illusion of motion evoked by stimulating the tendons of the wrist extensor muscles using va...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to compare the time-course changes in condylar long-axis and skeletal stability after sagittal split ramus osteotomy (SSRO) with an unsintered hydroxyapatite (u-HA)/poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) plate, PLLA plate, or titanium plate. PATIENTS AND METHODS Of 60 Japanese patients diagnosed with mandibular prognathism, 20 underwent SSRO with a u-HA/PLLA plate syst...

A method for retrospective correction of intensity inhomogeneities induced by the heel effect in digital radiographs is presented. The method is based on a theoretical model for the heel effect which is derived from the acquisition geometry. Because the heel effect is directly measurable in the direct exposure area only, the image is partitioned first to exclude collimation and diagnostic areas...

The physical motivation and rigorous proof of convergence for a particular network of nonlinear coupled oscillators are reviewed. Next, the network and convergence proof are generalized in several ways, to make the network more applicable to actual engineering problems. It is argued that such coupled oscillator circuits are more natural to implement in analog hardware than other types of dynami...

Well-differentiated digestive neuroendocrine tumors (NET) are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms usually associated with slow growth but a high rate of metastases, including peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). Herein, we aimed to comprehensively review the current knowledge of PC in terms of implications for the management and prognosis of patients with NET, including the latest studies and expert ...

1090-7807/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2009.11.011 * Corresponding author. Fax: +1 515 294 0105. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Hong). The de novo structure of an antimicrobial protein, human a-defensin 1 (HNP-1), is determined by combining a 3D C–C–C (CCC) magic-angle spinning (MAS) correlation experiment with standard resonance assignment experiments. Using...

A Gram-positive and catalase-negative coccus that formed chains, strain FP15-1(T), isolated from fermented tea leaves ('miang'), was studied systematically. The strain was facultatively anaerobic and produced l-lactic acid from glucose. Demethylmenaquinone (DMK-7) was the major menaquinone. Straight-chain unsaturated fatty acids C(16 : 1) and C(18 : 1) were the dominant components. The DNA G+C ...

Todd A. Blackledge*, Jonathan A. Coddington and Rosemary G. Gillespie University of California – Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Division of Insect Biology, 201 Wellman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3112, USA National Museum of Natural History NHB 105, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560-0105, USA *Correspondence and present address: Department of Entomology, Comst...

This three-volume report contains 84 papers out of the 111 that were presented at the Seventeenth Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting held at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Rockville, Maryland, during the week of October 23-25, 1989. The papers are printed in the order of their presentation in each session and describe progress and results of programs in nuclear safety research conducted in...