FEA in a Snap

A comparison of CRIB, CRIB II, SNAP, SNAPII and SNAP-PE scores for prediction of mortality in critically ill neonates

 Abstract Background: Clinical Risk Index of Babies (CRIB), Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology (SNAP), an update of the Clinical Risk Index for Babies score (CRIB II) and Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology - Perinatal Extension (SNAP-PE) are scoring devices developed in neonatal intensive care units. This study reviewed these scoring systems in critically ill neonates to determine how well th...

Vesicle Priming in a SNAP

In this issue of Neuron, Burgalossi et al. investigate synaptic vesicle priming by using presynaptic Ca(2+) uncaging at a small, glutamatergic, central synapse. Combining this technique with mouse genetics, the authors demonstrate that vesicle priming during ongoing neural activity can be limited by the recycling of recently used SNARE complexes.

Sugars synthesized in a snap.

much higher compared to hexokinase12. Although Lau et al. have provided convincing evidence for this switching effect in cells, its effect within whole organisms is not yet known. The switching hypothesis may open a new avenue for the understanding of growth factor receptor signaling by metabolic flux by way of the hexosamine pathway. The lattice model provided by Lau et al.1 is also intriguing...

Attributes Propagation on FEA Model

A way to manage the information needed during the FE simulation model preparation is by means of attributes linked to the adopted models. This paper presents the design and implementation of an attribute management system that supports the representation of all the information and data related to the simulation domain definition, needed to qualify an engineering analysis. The main objective of ...

FEA in Micro - Electro - Mechanical Systems ( MEMS ) Applications : A Micromachined