... Background Regardless of the advancements made in non-invasive diagnostic tools, Percutaneous Renal Biopsy (PRB) remains the corner stone for reaching a reliable diagnosis for most renal parenchymal diseases. Needle gauge is a key variable in determining the adequacy and therefore success of renal biopsy...

... invasion and high sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. Objective Our aim is to compare the sample adequacy of FNA sample obtained by 21 gauge needle versus 25 gauge needle, aiming to improve the overall quality of FNC and hence better evaluation of thyroid nodules avoiding repeating FNC...

... criteria specified, appropriate controls, and adequate information and defined assessment measures. Conclusion The overall incidence of post-PPV endophthalmitis across all studies was low. More recent data indicate that using 25 gauge needle during vitrectomy was significantly has the highest...

...Jung Eun Kim; Sung Hoon Kim; Richard Jin Woo Han; Min Hey Kang; Jae Hun Kim Table 1. Demographic and needle gauge data of group 1 patients with or without postdural puncture headache Variable Patients without PDPH (n = 1,148) Patients with PDPH (n = 34) P value Age (y...

... is expelled from the cylinder. A current is induced in the outer layers of the cylinder, which prevent the magnetic field from penetrating into the outer layers. The magnetic field is described by a gauge potential A. It is this potential which penetrates into the metal and can change the phases of electrons...

... subcutaneous genital blood flow. In this study, we concurrently assessed genital sexual arousal in a sample of men using the LDI and the current gold standard of male sexual psychophysiology, the penile strain gauge (PSG). Aim To (i) assess the validity of the LDI as a measure of male sexual arousal, (ii...

.... For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 2012 Abstract Tide gauge observations along the coastline of Japan have recorded the land sinking due to the continuous subduction of the oceanic plates, indicating that stress and strain energies have been accumulating at the plate boundary, which...

...⁻ (low digestion efficiency) genetic lines selected for divergent digestion efficiency, using strain gauge transducers. Motility was recorded continuously during 24 h in 6 birds per line. Two stimuli, a meal distribution after a feed-deprivation period and lighting after a dark period, were tested during...

... is extended and 20 invariants of anisotropic elasticity constants are obtained under rotation about x₃-axis. Invariants Anisotropic Gauge notation Eigenvector REFERENCES 1.   Ting T. C. T. , “ Invariants of Anisotripic Elastic Constants ,” Q. J. Mech. Appl. Math ., 40 , pp. 431...

... consider a real four-dimensional algebra to express the Maxwell equations without appealing to the imaginary number and higher dimensional algebras. In terms of g-based Jordan algebra formulation the Lorentz gauge condition is found to be a necessary and sufficient condition to render the second...

...-entry type with built-in specimen-heating element and micropressure gauge. The relationship between the cell condition and the quality of the transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image and the diffraction pattern was examined experimentally and theoretically. By using the cell consisting of two...

...Snorre H. Christiansen; Tore Gunnar Halvorsen IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (2011) 31, 1–24 doi:10.1093/imanum/drp019 Advance Access publication on September 7, 2009 Discretizing the Maxwell–Klein–Gordon equation by the lattice gauge theory formalism...

... student, following four 1-hour training sessions, using standardized methods and a digital height gauge. Four different NH measurements were taken 3 times on each foot by each of the 3 examiners during a morning session and then repeated during an afternoon session on the same day. Navicular drop values...

... that moderate slopes cause only limited bias and in such cases there is little need to adjust the measurement procedures or apply correction factors. For. Sci. 48(1):85–92. Key Words: Angle gauge sampling, bias, Bitterlich sampling, correction factor, forest inventory, line...

... were excluded from the study. No pre‐medication or opioid analgesia was given. OMT recordings were taken pre‐operatively on the ward at admission using the piezoelectric strain gauge technique (baseline recording). 14 This technique has been described in detail elsewhere 7 and provides a reliable...

... with strain gauges glued at specified positions along the trunks. Effects of both tree height and peripheral positions on the surface of leaning trunks on surface growth stress were determined. The inner residual growth strains in leaning trunks were also measured. We found high compression stresses...

...M. C. Crabb; W. A. Sutherland COUNTING HOMOTOPY TYPES OF GAUGE GROUPS M. C. CRABB and W. A. SUTHERLAND [Received 10 June 1999; revised 5 October 1999] 1. Introduction Let G be a compact connected Lie group and let P...

...S.O. Link; M.E. Thiede; M.G. van Bavel 4 To whom correspondence should be addressed. Fax: +1 509 372 7471. E-mail: [email protected] 13 1 1998 9 3 1998 © Oxford University Press 1998 1998 Abstract An improved strain-gauge dendrometer was tested on apple (Pyrus malus L.) tree...

...-L-arginine [L-NMMA], 1 to 8 μmol/min) were obtained by using strain-gauge venous plethysmography. Subjects were divided into two groups according to the blood pressure response to sodium loading: salt-sensitive hypertensive group (24-h mean increase of arterial pressure ≥10%; n = 6) and salt...

... with non-invasive moni- minimal vascular resistance and pressure could be ascribed toring, and minimal vascular resistance, calculated with to other neurohumoral factors. These factors play a much strain-gauge plethysmography, were statistically correlated. more important role in diabetes, where...