Received June 28, 1988; accepted August 14, 1988. metal suspension device, can be lifted or lowered by means of a hand crank that controls the elevation of the frame. In the CT suite, the patient is placed supine on a plastic spinal buckboardl A single sling is positioned underneath the buckboard at the level of the patient's thighs. The sling is then connected to two Hoyer lifts, one on each s...

SUPPLEMENTAL RESULTS Intraluminal filament choice for replicable MCAO in adult mice In an initial series of experiments we used 5.0 or 6.0 nylon sutures with an ~0.2 mm tip produced by heating over a flame, as is done by many laboratories (Tsuchiya et al., 2003). However, these resulted in a successful stroke in only 33% and 44% of the surviving mice, respectively (Supplemental Table 1), as mea...

When tables of quantitative data are generated from a datafile, the release of those tables should not reveal information concerning individual respondents. This disclosure of individual respondents in the microdata file can be prevented by applying disclosure control methods at the table level, but this may create inconsistencies across tables. Alternatively, disclosure control methods can be ...

Dietary factors (e.g. feeding treats and table scraps) can predispose to obesity in dogs, but it is not known whether they also influence success of weight loss. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine which pre-weight-loss factors were associated with outcome of their weight management regimen in dogs. Information from ninety-five dogs attending the Royal Canin Weight Manageme...

During the last decades, the production enterprises have gone through a strong global change in terms of shorter product life cycles, fluctuations in the order income and increased demand of customized products. Basically, a company needs to develop appealing products in terms of cost and quality that are brought to the market in timely manner. As many studies show that over 70% of the total li...

We study the functional codes C2(X) defined on projective varieties X , in the case where X ⊂ P is a 1-degenerate quadric or a non-degenerate quadric (hyperbolic or elliptic). We find the minimum distance of these codes, the second weight, and the third weight. We also show the geometrical structure of the first weight and second weight codewords. One result states that the codes C2(X) defined ...

Improved binary constant weight codes with minimum distance 4 and length at most 28 are constructed. A table with bounds on the chromatic number of small Johnson graphs is given.