Title of Document: ENGINEERING BIODEGRADABLE VASCULAR SCAFFOLDS FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Anthony J Melchiorri, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed by: John P. Fisher, Ph.D., Fischell Family Distinguished Professor Fischell Department of Bioengineering The most common birth defects worldwide are congenital heart defects. To treat these malformations in a child’s cardiovascular system, synthe...

abstract background: keratoconus is a bilateral corneal disease, which one way to cure it is to transplant. the transplantation may be rejected by recipient's immune system, which leads to failure of the graft. this study aimed to analysis the factors affecting bilateral corneal graft rejection based on copula function. methods: a sample of bilateral graft rejection times was assessed. since co...

Background: Peripheral vascular injury associated with lower limb trauma is a well-known emergency. The experience for the management of popliteal artery trauma have mainly come from managing the traumas of military personnels during Iran-Iraq war. The present study compared the effects of two currently-used surgical techniques in the management of popliteal trauma, namley femoropopliteal bypas...

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In this paper, the concept of semi-compatibility and weak compatibility in Fuzzy metric space has been applied to prove a common fixed point theorem. We improve the result of Kumar and Pant [14] by dropping the condition of continuity of the mapping and using semi-compatibility and weak compatibility of the mappings in place of compatibility.