One reason for the relatively low wear rate of this articulation compared to other series (Kim et al. 2012) might be the use of ceramic heads instead of metal heads (Jung and Kim 2010, Dahl et al. 2013).
PVA/PVP blend hydrogels showed low coefficient of friction (COF) values (between 0.12 ± 0.01 and 0.14 ± 0.02) which were closer to the cartilage-on-cartilage articulation (0.03 ± 0.01) compared to the cartilage-on-stainless steel articulation (0.46 ± 0.06).
We applied traction of 5 kg to the ipsilateral ankle compared to the articulation coxofemoral joint in order to obtain a paraphysiological diastase of the articular heads and to improve the spread of the intra-articular contrast agent.
In these experiments, the optimal value of the co-articulation parameter was t c = 3, which corresponds to a co-articulation timea of 100 ms. Compared to the previous experiment, where a reduced vocabulary (digits utterances) was employed, the number of states needed in this case increases considerably due to the fact that a larger vocabulary is being represented by the AV-HMM.
Articulation-gain curves from OPA1 patients were compared to the mean functions with 95% confidence limits, calculated for each class of PTA for a large sample of subjects, including normally-hearing individuals (394 ears, range 18 50 years) and patients with cochlear hearing loss (583 ears, range 18 50 years), submitted to audiometric evaluation at our department over the past 8 years.
It is our hypothesis that large head metal-on-metal arthroplasties will show less bone mineral density loss and higher serum metal ion concentrations compared to the conventional 28 mm metal-on-polyethylene articulations.
Participant 13: There needs to be specific articulation of how and why NTD prevention should include WASH; this is why they trachoma community has the upper hand compared to the STH community.
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Remarkable is also that the lateral sclerite in decapods does not extend much into the anterior articulation membrane compared to all other species that we examined (except for lophogastrids).
Ohala (1983) claimed that more stringent aerodynamic requirements are imposed by the articulation of voiced fricatives compared to their voiceless counterparts.
