OBJECTIVE To evaluate characteristics of static and dynamic parameters in patients with degenerative flat back (DFB) and to compare degree of their improvement between successful and unsuccessful surgical outcome groups. METHODS Forty-seven patients with DFB were included who took whole spine X-ray and three-dimensional motion analysis before and 6 months after corrective surgery. Forty-four ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to study the cortical bases of 3-D structure perception from visual motion in human. Nine subjects underwent three experiments designed to locate the areas involved in (i) motion processing (random motion versus static dots), (ii) coherent motion processing (expansion/ contraction versus random motion) and (iii) 3-D shape from motion reconstruction...

Abstract Objective To explore the role and possible regulatory mechanisms of ATP5B in colorectal cancer. Methods Online databases were used to analyze expression prognosis patients with l The data TCGA database analyzed by Gene Set Enrichment Analysis. Co‐expression network analysis was coexpedia. Colorectal cancer cell (SW480 DLD1) transfected small interfering RNA validated real‐time fluoresc...

We present a general method for obtaining static anisotropic spherically symmetric solutions, starting from known density profiles and satisfying a nonlocal equation of state. This equation of state describes, at a given point, the components of the corresponding energymomentum tensor not only as a function at that point, but as a functional throughout the enclosed configuration. In order to es...

The first lab-on-chip system for picoliter droplet generation and RNA isolation, followed by reverse transcription, and PCR amplification with real-time fluorescence detection in the trapped droplets has been developed. The system utilized a shearing T-junction in a fused-silica device to generate a stream of monodisperse picoliter-scale droplets that were isolated from the microfluidic channel...

Bosonic string formation in gauge theories is reviewed with particular attention to the confining flux in lattice QCD and its string theory description. Recent results on the Casimir energy of the ground state and the string excitation spectrum are analyzed in the Dirichlet string limit of large separation between static sources. The closed string-soliton (torelon) with electric flux winding ar...

Demand for high-speed dynamic reconfiguration of a programmable device is increasing for raising the performance level of such devices. To support high-speed dynamic reconfiguration, optically reconfigurable gate arrays (ORGAs) have been developed. An ORGA consists of a holographic memory, a laser array, and an optically reconfigurable gate array VLSI. The holographic memory can store many conf...