Purpose.To evaluate changes in serum levels of bone turnover markers during the first year XLR/Speakon Connectors following a total hip or knee arthroplasty (THA or TKA, respectively).Methods.34 women and 13 men (mean age, 68 years) with idiopathic hip or knee osteoarthritis underwent elective THA or TKA.The serum levels of (1) osteoprotegerin, (2)
Background As cultural institutions embark in projects oriented to digitise art and archaeological collections in three dimensions, the need for developing means to access the resulting 3D models has become imperative.Shape recognition techniques developed in the field of computer vision can help in this task.Methods This paper describes the implem
Anthocyanins and melanins are phenolic pigments of plants and accumulate in seed envelopes of the barley grain, thereby giving them a blue, purple, or black color.To explore the effects of combined accumulation of anthocyanins and melanins in the grain, a barley near-isogenic line (NIL), characterized by simultaneous accumulation in both pigments,
The HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) system accounts for almost half of the total electricity consumption in buildings, and the chillers in HVAC system are the major energy consumers.Hence, it is significant to reasonably control the chillers for satisfying the thermal comfort demand of occupancy according to indoor environment chan
Vijay PB Grover, Joshua M Tognarelli, Nicolas Massie, Mary ME Crossey, Nicola A Cook, Simon D Taylor-Robinson Liver Unit, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK Abstract: Hepatic encephalopathy is a common neuropsychiatric abnormality, which complicates the course of patients