BACKGROUND Resorbable bone hemostasis materials, oxidized regenerated cellulose (ORC) and microfibrillar collagen (MFC), remain at the site of application for up to 8 weeks and may impair osteogenesis. Our experimental study compared the effect of a water-soluble alkylene oxide copolymer (AOC) to ORC and MFC versus no hemostatic material on early bone healing. METHODS Two circular 2.7 mm non-...

We investigate two parameterized algorithmic schemes for graphical models that can accommodate trade-offs between time and space: 1) AND/OR Cutset Conditioning (AOC(i)) and 2) Variable Elimination with Conditioning (VEC(i)). We show that AOC(i) is better than the vanilla versions of VEC(i), and use the guiding principles of AOC(i) to improve VEC(i). Finally, we show that the improved versions o...

We investigate three parameterized algorithmic schemes for graphical models that can accommodate trade-offs between time and space: 1) AND/OR Adaptive Caching (AOC(i)); 2) Variable Elimination and Conditioning (VEC(i)); and 3) Tree Decomposition with Conditioning (TDC(i)). We show that AOC(i) is better than the vanilla versions of bothVEC(i) andTDC(i), and use the guiding principles of AOC(i) t...

Mechanical overloading to cardiac muscle causes fetal contractile protein gene expression and acceleration of protein synthesis. Myocyte microtubules might be involved in these pressure overload-induced hypertrophic responses. We assessed c- fos and fetal contractile protein genes such as β-myosin heavy chain (MHC) and α-skeletal actin using Northern blot analysis and quantified total cardiac p...

Cardiac adaptation to hemodynamic stress involves both quantitative (hypertrophy) and qualitative (pattern of gene expression) changes. Our previous studies have shown that advancing age in the rat is associated with diminished capacity to develop left ventricular hypertrophy in response to either ascending aortic constriction (AoC). In this study, we examined whether the expression of protoonc...

Assimilable organic carbon (AOC) is commonly used to measure the growth potential of microorganisms in water, but has not yet been investigated for measuring microbial growth potential in soils. In this study, a simple, rapid, and non-growth based assay to determine AOC in soil was developed using a naturally occurring luminous strain Vibrio harveyi BB721 to determine the fraction of low molecu...

For generic mesoscopic systems, such as quantum dots or nanoparticles, we study the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe AOC and Fermi-edge singularities in photoabsorption spectra in a series of two papers. In the present paper we focus on AOC for a finite number of particles in discrete energy levels where, in contrast to the bulk situation, AOC is not complete. Moreover, fluctuations character...

Assimilable organic carbon (AOC) is a suspected contributor to growth of microbes, including pathogens, in plumbing systems. Two phases of research were completed to improve knowledge of AOC and other forms of organic carbon in premise plumbing. In the first phase, the AOC Standard Method 9217B was compared to a new luminescence-based AOC in terms of time, cost, convenience, and sources of erro...

Jasmonates are important signals in plant stress responses and plant development. An essential step in the biosynthesis of jasmonic acid (JA) is catalysed by ALLENE OXIDE CYCLASE (AOC) which establishes the naturally occurring enantiomeric structure of jasmonates. In Arabidopsis thaliana, four genes encode four functional AOC polypeptides (AOC1, AOC2, AOC3, and AOC4) raising the question of fun...