The objective of this study was to examine the effects of cyclic compressive loading on chondrogenic differentiation of rabbit bone-marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) in agarose cultures. Rabbit BM-MSCs were obtained from the tibias and femurs of New Zealand white rabbits. After the chondrogenic potential of BM-MSCs was verified by pellet cultures, cell-agarose constructs were made by susp...

Immediate loading, defined as implant loading within the first 24—48 hours after implant placement, has been an increasingly active field of interest in implant dentistry. Results of a Cochrane systematic review evaluating the timing of loading suggested that immediately loading mandibular implants can be as effective as conventional loading protocols, leading clinicians to inquire whether the ...

Oscillatory behavior in a chain of masses connected by springs with continuous but non-monotonic spring forces can be induced under quasi-static loading. Insight into the birth of this behavior is obtained from a single mass system. A bifurcation study shows the potential for equilibrium jumps between multiple equilibria. As such, the transients occurring under quasi-static loading do not conve...

Squash (Cucurbita pepo L. var. melopepo torticalis, Bailey) leaves were supplied with (14)C-sucrose, then specific radioactivities of the glucose and galactose moieties of translocated stachyose were determined. In every case, the specific radioactivity of the galactose moiety was greater than that of the glucose moiety. It is concluded that the stachyose was not synthesized at either the phloe...

We consider the robust surgery loading problem for a hospital's operating theatre department, which concerns assigning surgeries and sufficient planned slack to operating room days. The objective is to maximize capacity utilization and minimize the risk of overtime, and thus cancelled patients. We propose various constructive heuristics and local search methods that use statistical information ...

The container loading problem consists of packing boxes of various sizes into available containers in a way which optimizes some objective function. The container loading is the core of many problems which arise in distribution and logistics. As the amount of distributed goods grows and with it the need for automation of distribution processes, also the need for computational models and methods...

A data warehouse (DW) is a collection of technologies aimed at enabling the knowledge worker (executive, manager, analyst, etc.) to make better and faster decisions. The architecture of a DW exhibits various layers of data in which data from one layer are derived from data of the lower layer (see Figure 1). The operational databases, also called data sources, form the starting layer. They may c...

Nutrient Loading Factors Phosphorus Nitrogen Surface Runoff Coefficients lb P/acre/year lb N/acre/year LAND USE Low High Low High Low High [1] HD Res.(>8 /ac) 0.64 0.77 3.6 4.4 11.9 14.3 [2] MHD Res.(4-7.9/ac) 0.39 0.64 2.2 3.6 7.3 11.9 [3] MD Res.(1-3.9/ac) 0.23 0.39 1.3 2.2 4.3 7.3 [4] MLD Res.(0.5-0.9/ac) 0.16 0.23 0.9 1.3 3.0 4.3 [5] LD Res.(<0.5/ac) 0.10 0.16 0.6 0.9 1.9 3.0 [6] Commercial...

implant-prosthetic parameters and marginal bone loss (MBL) around implants and survival rate at 5.7 ±3.2 years of follow-up after prosthetic loading. Eighty-two patients received 164 external hexagon implants. After the standard healing period (3 to 6 months), the implants were restored with single-tooth or up to three splinted crowns. All patients were followed according to a strict maintenanc...

Code linking is a process of mapping identifiers used in the code to an actual implementations for execution. Different kinds and types of linking feature speed of execution, variability trade-offs and greatly influence possibilities of code reloading in the platform. Code loading is the process of referencing, locating and making the virtual machine level code accessible to the caller which is...