Web services are the de facto standard in biomedical data integration. However, there are data integration scenarios that cannot be fully covered by Web services. A number of Web databases and tools do not support Web services, and existing Web services do not cover for all possible user data demands. As a consequence, Web data scraping, one of the oldest techniques for extracting Web contents,...

OBJECTIVES When re-operating patients with midportion Achilles tendinosis, having had a poor effect of ultrasound (US) and Doppler-guided scraping, the author found the involvement of the plantaris tendon to be a likely reason for the poor result. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of a plantaris tendon in close relation to the Achilles tendon in consecutive patients with m...

Resumen. En este artículo se revisan distintas metodologías utilizadas para realizar un análisis político utilizando diversas fuentes de información disponibles en internet. En algunas sociedades, el uso de redes sociales tiene un impacto significativo en el ámbito político con la sociedad y se han empleado diversas metodologías para analizar diversos aspectos políticos y las estrategias a segu...

What makes scraping methodologically interesting for social and cultural research? This paper seeks to contribute to debates about digital social research by exploring how a ‘medium-specific’ technique for online data capture may be rendered analytically productive for social research. As a device that is currently being imported into social research, scraping has the capacity to re-structure s...

Background: The Masquelet induced membrane technique is a commonly used method for treating segmental bone defects. However, there are no established clinical standards for management of the spacer-induced membrane (IM) prior to grafting. Questions/purposes: Two clinically-based hypotheses were tested in the Caprine Chronic Tibial Defect model: 1) A textured spacer will increase IM surface area...

Mammalian cells require extracellular calcium ion to undergo rapid plasma membrane repair seconds after mechanical damage. Utilizing transformed fibroblasts from calpain small subunit knock-out (Capns1-/-) mouse embryos, we now show that the heterodimeric, typical subclass of calpains is required for calcium-mediated survival after plasma membrane damage caused by scraping a cell monolayer. Sur...

Intestinal mucosa of rats was prepared by squeezing the frozen and thawed intestine. The method was much easier compared to the conventional method in which intestine was cut longitudinally or everted and mucosa was scraped. Jejunal mucosal weight prepared by the two methods was not different, but ileal mucosal weight prepared by squeezing was significantly heavier than that by scraped. No sign...

Sir, The standard technique for diagnosis of human scabies is by microscopic examination of scales obtained by skin scraping, using a needle in order to ®nd the female mite in her burrow. Epiluminescence microscopy allows in vivo detection of the mite, and consists of skin lesion observation via stereomicroscope after the application of oil and a slide between the lens and the skin (1, 2). We c...

Epithelial cells that re-epithelialized corneas after the normal corneal epithelium was removed limbus to limbus by scraping were found to be metabolically responsive to methylprednisolone acetate. Seventy-two hours after scraping, the re-epithelializing cells from steroid-treated animals were found to have a 26% slower rate of DNA synthesis, a 30% slower rate of glucose oxidation via glycolysi...