Sealed Fate or Setting Out for New Shores?

Multimedia Do ument ModelsSealed Fate or Setting Out for New Shores ?

I-19: Surrogate Egg Shell Culture for The Analysis of Avian Stem Cell Fate

Background: The chick embryo is a classical model to study embryonic development. However, most researchers have not studied the effect of embryonic manipulation on chick hatchability. To determine the effect of egg orientation and type of sealing film on the hatchability of cultured embryos, and to determine the fate of adulte stem cells injected into the blastoderm. Materials and Methods: Win...

ModelsSealed Fate or Setting Out for New Shores ?

Existing multimedia document models like HTML, MHEG, SMIL, and HyTime lack appropriate modeling primitives to t the needs of next generation multimedia applications which bring up requirements like reusability of multimedia content in diierent presentations and contexts, and adaptation to user preferences. In this paper, we motivate and present new requirements stemming from advanced multimedia...

A 13-year follow-up of a comprehensive program of fissure sealing and resealing in Varkaus, Finland.

The objective of the study was to examine the coverage of the sealing program on first permanent molars (FPMs) and second permanent molars (SPMs) and first and second premolars (FSPMs), as well as to monitor the fate of the sealed teeth over time. All patients born in 1977 who had had regular check-ups in the Varkaus Health Center, Finland (n = 166) were included in the 1996 study. Data on the ...

On the virtues of the ascending price auction: New insights in the private value setting∗

This paper shows that in a private value setting in which one bidder may at any time reÞne her assessment of her valuation at some positive cost, the ascending price auction induces higher expected welfare than the sealed-bid second price auction does. When the number of bidders is above a threshold, it generates higher revenue as well. In the ascending price auction, a key feature of equilibri...