Daiji Takeuchi, Daigo Yagishita, Keiko Toyohara, Tomomi Nishimura, In-sam Park, and Morio Shoda* Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666 Japan; and Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666 Japan * Corresponding author. Tel: 181-3-3353-8111; fax: 181-3-3356-...

We studied active flexion from 90 degrees to 133 degrees and passive flexion to 162 degrees using MRI in 20 unloaded knees in Japanese subjects. Flexion over this arc is accompanied by backward movement of the medial femoral condyle of 4.0 mm and by backward movement laterally of 15 mm, i.e., by internal rotation of the tibia. At 162 degrees the lateral femoral condyle lies posterior to the tibia.

Thirty-one meningococcal isolates from carriers and disease cases belonging to the sequence type (ST) 162 complex, isolated in Greece in 1999 and 2000, were studied by the use of variable-number tandem repeat analysis. Our study demonstrated that the isolates belonging to the ST-162 clonal complex were a heterogeneous group. Based on this heterogeneity, it is unlikely that the disease-associate...

A* search, 136 abduction, 113 abstraction, 19, 32, 50, 168 abstraction ladders, 2 A-Design, 120 aesthetics, 14, 15 agent-based systems, 55, 120, 146, 162, 165 agent communication language (ACL), 162, 165 AIEDAM, 10, 171 AIR-CYL, 139 alternatives, 18 affordances, 2 American Institute of Steel Construction, 95 analogical reasoning, 110, 137 analysis, 22, 25, 26 ARCHPLAN, 157 AND-OR tree, 142 arra...

■ CONTENTS Kinetic Capillary Electrophoresis 157 Applications 159 Aptamers 159 KCE for Quantitative Characterization of Aptamer-Target Binding 159 KCE-Based Aptamer Selection 160 Small Molecules 161 Cyclodextrins 162 Proteins 162 Others 164 Instrumentation and Methodology 164 Sample Preparation 164 Capillary Coatings 165 KCE-MS 165 Computational and Mathematical Approaches 166 Validation 167 Co...