Introduction The concept of bone anchors constructed of High Density Collagen (HDC) was introduced at this meeting last year. The healing of tendon to bone in an animal model during the critical first six months was found to be equal to that produced with a standard metallic anchor. Collagen is being investigated as a material for making anchors to avoid the drawbacks of the materials in the cu...

In order to investigate the failure mechanism and the failure load of quadruple fastenings with bonded anchors a series of numerical investigation was carried out. The studied specimens were bonded anchors in a concrete block and subjected to tensile loading. In the calculations the microplane model with relaxed kinematic constraint was used to simulate the concrete and bond materials. Totally ...

—Localization in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks(MWSNs) has become a focus research in recent years, path planning algorithm makes great influence on localization performances. There are abundant existing path planning methods, but few of them can be applied in MWSNs. In order to avoid energy and resource waste caused by anchors traversing sparse area randomly, we first realized anchors move a...

This paper presents two shear tests of -in. diameter cast-in anchors embedded in the plastic hinge zone of reinforced concrete columns. Design codes, such as ACI 318-14, require special reinforcement for concrete anchors in concrete that could be substantially damaged during an earthquake. The test anchors in this study were equipped with the anchor reinforcement recommended and verified in the...

Increasing accuracy motivation (e.g., by providing monetary incentives for accuracy) often fails to increase adjustment away from provided anchors, a result that has led researchers to conclude that people do not effortfully adjust away from such anchors. We challenge this conclusion. First, we show that people are typically uncertain about which way to adjust from provided anchors and that thi...

conclusions the findings showed that personal, interpersonal, and functional skills can facilitate nurses’ career advancement. the effects of these skills on career advancement depend on a variety of conditions that require further studies. results the three themes extracted from the data included interpersonal capabilities, competency for career success, and personal capacities. the results sh...

Evaluating phenotypic plasticity in attachment organs of parasites can provide information on the capacity to colonise new hosts and illuminate evolutionary processes driving host specificity. We analysed the variability in shape and size of the dorsal and ventral anchors of Ligophorus cephali from Mugil cephalus by means of geometric morphometrics and multivariate statistics. We also assessed ...

Effects of extreme versus moderate numerical anchors are investigated. Similar to past results in attitude change, three separate data collections show that extreme anchors can have less influence on judgments than more moderate anchors. Though difficult to account for using traditional “anchor-and-adjust” and recent “selective accessibility” views, the findings are consistent with theories of ...

Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors and glycoinositolphospholipids (GIPLs) from parasitic protozoa have been shown to exert a wide variety of effects on cells of the host innate immune system. However, the receptor(s) that are triggered by these protozoan glycolipids has not been identified. Here we present evidence that Trypanosoma cruzi-derived GPI anchors and GIPLs trigger CD25 expres...