Introduction: Damaged or diseased articular cartilage has limited repair opportunities. The development of functional articular cartilage repair techniques is conditional on the attainment of biotribological and biomechanical properties similar to native tissue. Typically, studies have been limited to either the biomechanical aspect or the biotribological aspect. Until recently, biotribological...

Allentown, Pa.; Bayonne, N.J.; Flint, Mich.; Newark, and Jackson, Miss., are a few of the communities that have had serious water issues involving an underfunded utility in need critical intervention. That intervention came, it arrived variety forms. In Allentown public–public arrangement with independent authority, Lehigh County Authority, turned things around. Bayonne public–private partnersh...

Introduction: Ring-mold craters [1] comprise a suite of craters with unusual morphologies that have as yet been identified only on lineated valley fill (LVF), lobate debris aprons (LDA), and concentric crater fill (CCF) in the northern and southern mid-latitudes of Mars. Ringmold craters (RMCs) are generally rimless and consist of an outer annular trough surrounding a variety of interior morpho...

The paper presents POLA, a student modeling framework that performs probabilistic assessment of students’ performance while they solve problems in introductory Physics. Existing efforts toward probabilistic student modeling focus exclusively on performing knowledge tracing. With POLA we aim to turn OLAE, a system that performs probabilistic knowledge tracing, into a system that applies probabil...

Introduction: Single-bundle anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction has been the standard option to treat ACL-deficient knees. However, biomechanical studies have shown that normal rotational laxity cannot be restored with single-bundle reconstructions [1]. Recently, anatomic reconstruction of the anteromedial (AM) and posterolateral (PL) bundles has been introduced [2]. However, it rem...

Abrupt centennial-to-millennial shifts inNorthernHemisphere climate during the last deglaciation are thought to have been triggered by the discharge of large volumes of meltwater and icebergs to the subpolar North Atlantic1. Here we show that meltwater and icebergswere also transporteddirectly from the Laurentide icemargin to the subtropicalNorthAtlantic in a narrow coastal current. We present ...

The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) values for vitamin D (600 IU/d up to the age of 70 y and 800 IU/d thereafter) established by the North American Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2011 are the intakes that are likely to meet or exceed the needs of ;97.5% of the population (1). These were based on indicators of bone health and a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] threshold of 50 nmol/L durin...

in the clinical sciences category was awarded to Dr. Sandeep Basu from the Radiation Medicine Centre in Bombay, and the best abstract in the basic sciences category was awarded to Dr. Jaya Shukla from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. Awards to (Continued on page 53N) At the CASNM meeting in Philadelphia (left to right): Drs. Chyng Yann Shiue (president, 1999–2001), Chri...

introduction precipitation plays an important role in the global energy and water cycle. it is important for assessment and management of land use, agriculture and hydrology such as flood and drought risk reduction to know about the amount of precipitation reaching the ground water. assessment of climate change and its effects require long-term rainfall analysis in all spatial scales. growing c...

OS11B-1487473 D R A F TApril 30, 2007, 11:42amD R A F T X 24HUANG ET AL.: ANISOTROPY OF MID-OCEAN CURRENTSMaximenko, N. A., B. Bang, and H. Sasaki (2005) Observational evidence of474alternating zonal jets in the world ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L12607,475 doi:10.1029/2005GL022728476Maximenko, N. A., and P. P. Niiler (2005) Hybrid decade-mean global s...