Co-production is an increasingly popular framework for knowledge generation, evaluation and decision making. Despite its potential to open up decisions practices the input of others, co-production regularly falls short transformative ambitions. Through documentary analysis, we investigate meaning dynamics as it stretches beyond local into global research technology spaces. We find that in case ...

BACKGROUND Re-operations after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding operation (LAGB) are band-associated or due to complications of the access-port. Symptoms, diagnostics, operations, and follow-up of patients with re-operations were analyzed. METHODS Between December 1996 and January 2002, 250 morbidly obese patients were treated with LAGB and prospectively evaluated using a standardized ...

Wheeled mobile robots are widely implemented in the field environment where slipping and skidding may often occur. This paper presents a self-adaptive path tracking control framework based on radial basis function (RBF) neural network to overcome slippage disturbances. Both kinematic dynamic models of wheeled robot with skid-steer characteristics established position, orientation, equivalent er...

Tailoring the hydrodynamic boundary condition is essential for both applied and fundamental aspects of drag reduction. Hydrodynamic friction on superhydrophobic substrates providing gas-liquid interfaces can potentially be optimized by controlling the interface geometry. Therefore, establishing stable and optimal interfaces is crucial but rather challenging. Here we present unique superhydropho...

Microtubule-binding drugs such as taxol are frontline treatments for a variety of cancers but exactly how they yield patient benefit is unclear. In cell culture, inhibiting microtubule dynamics prevents spindle assembly, leading to mitotic arrest followed by either apoptosis in mitosis or slippage, whereby a cell returns to interphase without dividing. Myeloid cell leukaemia-1 (Mcl-1), a pro-su...

Transition metals are essential for many metabolic processes, and their homeostasis is crucial for life. Metal-ion transporters play a major role in maintaining the correct concentrations of the various metal ions in living cells. Little is known about the transport mechanism of metal ions by eukaryotic cells. Some insight has been gained from studies of the mammalian transporter DCT1 and the y...

Study design: A case report describing the development of vertebral deformities associated with dysplastic spondylolisthesis that was managed conservatively until skeletal maturity was achieved. Objective: To describe development of wedging and rounding vertebral deformities. Summary of Background Data: There are no reports of preschool children with dysplastic spondylolisthesis that were manag...

The rates of anion net efflux from gramicidin-treated erythrocytes in the presence of a K gradient were measured at 25 degrees C, pH 7.8, as rates of loss of Ki. The experiments served to estimate the relative contributions of two hypothetical mechanisms to Cl net efflux at low extracellular Cl concentrations. Cl, Br, and NO3 net effluxes were measured into media of different Cl, Br, or NO3 con...

Contraction of the unit cell neutral radical ferromagnet 1a at T = 2 K leads to a decrease in slippage π-stacks and an increase axial ferromagnetic exchange interactions.