OBJECTIVE To investigate phasic changes during filling cystometry that most accurately represent detrusor properties, regardless of other factors affecting detrusor contractility. METHODS Seventy-eight patients (59 males, 19 females; mean age, 48.2 years) with spinal cord injuries were enrolled. Urodynamic studies were performed using a normal saline filling rate of 24 mL/min. We calculated b...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this in vitro quantitative laboratorial study is to compare the ability of three filling techniques to fill simulated lateral canals. METHODS Thirty extracted, single-rooted human teeth were used. After cleaning and shaping, three lateral canals were created, one in each third. The teeth were randomly separated into three groups: continuous wave of condensation (Grou...

This year the RPI-BLENDER team participated in the following four tasks: English Entity Linking, Regular Slot Filling, Temporal Slot Filling and Slot Filling Validation. The major improvement was made for Regular Slot Filling and Slot Filling validation. We developed a fresh system for both tasks. Our approach embraces detailed linguistic analysis and knowledge discovery, and advanced knowledge...

We prove that if every hyperbolic group is residually finite, then every quasi-convex subgroup of every hyperbolic group is separable. The main tool is relatively hyperbolic Dehn filling.

Interfacial fluctuation effects occuring at wedge and cone filling transitions are investigated and shown to exhibit very different characteristics. For both geometries we show how the conditions for observing critical (continuous) filling are much less restrictive than for critical wetting, which is known to require fine tuning of the Hamaker constants. Wedge filling is critical if the wetting...

Abstract Eleven wheat cultivars were evaluated at 10-day intervals, beginning from anthesis, under irrigated and drought stress conditions during 2006-2007. The effects of irrigation, genotype and date of harvest were significant for most of the studied characters. Water deficit decreased pre-and post-anthesis assimilation rate, grain weight per spike, grain number per spike and 1000 grain wei...

in recent years, biosurfactants due to wide applications in chemical, petroleum, food andpharmaceutical industries, have been widely considered by researchers. biosurfactants are produced by aseries of microorganisms, so it is important to screen culture medium and operating conditions in miniaturized bioreactors prior to scaling up to large bioreactors.in this study, using a kind of miniaturiz...

The main purpose of this paper is to show that ideas of deformation theory can be applied to “infinite dimensional geometry”. We develop the deformation theory of Brody curves. Brody curve is a kind of holomorphic map from the complex plane to the projective space. Since the complex plane is not compact, the parameter space of the deformation can be infinite dimensional. As an application we pr...

In this paper, we obtain a refinement of the Young theorem. The Young theorem tells us that the Fourier transform F sends the L functions to the Lp functions, if 1 ≤ p ≤ 2. This theorem has a refinement. For example, F : L → B ∞1, where B pq is the Besov space. In this present paper we shall consider the more refined version of this theorem by using the amalgams and the Besov spaces.