Postsurgical adhesion formation is the most common complication in abdominal and pelvic surgery. Adhesiolysis is the most commonly applied treatment for adhesion formation but is often followed by adhesion reformation. Therefore, an efficient strategy should be adopted to solve these problems. This study aimed to explore whether hyaluronic acid and oxidized regenerated cellulose (ORC) could pre...

We present O2J, a Java library that allows implementation of Orc programs on distributed architectures including grids and clusters/networks of workstations. With minimal programming effort the grid programmer may implement Orc programs, as he/she is not required to write any low level code relating to distributed orchestration of the computation but only that required to implement Orc expressi...

The Tetrahymena thermophila origin recognition complex (ORC) contains an integral RNA subunit, 26T RNA, which confers specificity to the amplified ribosomal DNA (rDNA) origin by base pairing with an essential cis-acting replication determinant--the type I element. Using a plasmid maintenance assay, we identified a 6.7 kb non-rDNA fragment containing two closely associated replicators, ARS1-A (0...

Olfactory receptor cells (ORCs) of a particular odor tuning are dispersed in the olfactory epithelium, but their axons converge on distinct glomeruli in primary olfactory centers. As a consequence, axon associations must change to bring axons of ORCs with the same odor specificity together. Studies in Manduca sexta have indicated that just before they enter the antennal lobe (AL), ORC axons und...

An open architecture manufacturing system pursues to integrate manufacturing components on a single platform. Therefore, a particular component can be easily added and/or replaced. In this paper, a modular and object-oriented approach for the PC-based open robot control system is investigated. A standard reference model for controlling robots, which consists of a hardware platform, an operating...

The origin recognition complex (ORC) ensures exactly one round of genome replication per cell cycle through acting as a molecular switch that precisely controls the assembly, firing, and inactivation of the replication initiation machinery. Recent data indicate that it may also coordinate the processes of mitosis and cytokinesis and ensure the proper distribution of replicated genome to daughte...

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-...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing outcomes between Open Radical Cystectomy (ORC), Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy (LRC) and Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy (RARC). RARC is to be compared to LRC and ORC and LRC compared to ORC. MATERIAL AND METHODS A systematic review of the literature was conducted, collating studies comparing RARC, LRC and ORC. Surgical a...

Orc is a new model of distributed programming which provides a strong theoretical foundation for internet computing based on compositions of web-services. Orc combines some of the power and flexibility of process algebra with the simplicity and determinism of synchronous programming models. We present an operational semantics of Orc and prove some laws analogous to those of Kleene algebra. We v...

BACKGROUND The number of robotic assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) procedures is increasing despite the lack of Level I evidence showing any advantages over open radical cystectomy (ORC). However, several systematic reviews with meta-analyses including non-randomised studies, suggest an overall benefit for RARC compared to ORC. We performed a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomised ...