PURPOSE The aim of this study was to compare functional data of different nerve-gap bridging materials evaluated in rat experiments by means of a systematic review. MATERIALS AND METHODS A systematic review was conducted, searching MEDLINE, HTS and CENTRAL to identify all trials evaluating functional recovery of artificial nerve conduits in the rat model. RESULTS There was a trend towards a...

At the start of the 21st century annual world consumption of unwoven fabrics (for practical and technical uses) stood at 46 million tonnes, of which synthetics and cotton accounted for 49% and 42% respectively (with an upward trend in subsequent years), wool for 5%, and other fabrics 4% (linen, sisal, silk and others, with a downward trend) (Central Statistical Office Yearbooks – Roczniki GUS, ...

While full sibling group reconstruction from microsatellite data is a well studied problem, reconstruction of half sibling groups is much less studied, theoretically challenging, and a computationally intense problem. In this paper, we present two different formulations of the half-sib reconstruction problem and prove their NP-hardness. We also present exact solutions for these formulations and...

In this paper we show the possibility of using wavelets and wavelet packets to detect and characterize alarm signals produced by termites. A set of synthetics have been modelled by mixing the real acquired transients with computer generated noise processes. Identification has been performed by means of analyzing the impulse responses of three sensors undergoing natural excitations. De-noising e...

Induced polarization (IP) method has been successfully implemented in investigation of groundwater, geothermal and metallic ores. From published (Nordsiek and Weller, 2008) spectral induced polarization (SIP) data, the amplitude and phase spectra have been derived. Frequencydependent impedance data sets have been calculated from these SIP data sets, which were derived for chargeability by Debye...

We compare teleseismic P-wave records for earthquakes in the magnitude range from 6.0 to 9.5 with synthetics for a self-similar, ~2 source model and conclude that the energy radiated by very large earthquakes (M,, > 8~) is not self-similar to that radiated from smaller earthquakes (Mw < 81). Furthermore, in the period band from 2 sec to several tens of seconds, we conclude that large subduction...