However the standards for 2006 have been doubled for all minimum volumes with the exception of kidney transplantation.
Today all states have at least one transplantation centre for each of the three types of transplantation with minimum volumes with the exception of Brandenburg, which lacks a kidney transplantation centre.
The base formulation is a minimum volume design with displacement constraint, which is represented by the strain energy.
In the design process, when placing the on-board equipment of a spacecraft in the compartments of a minimum volume, along with the design and technological constraints the possible impact of the space environment must be taken into account.
In contrast, pancreatic and esophageal interventions had the highest percentage of hospitals not complying with minimum volume standards in 2006 with 36 and 43 % respectively, and a centralization was expected [ 46, 51, 52].
We also study the relation of the minimum volume set approach with random set theory when α is a random variable and extend the most specific probability possibility transformation proposed in [System Theory, Knowledge Engineering and Problem Solving, in: Fuzzy Logic: State of the Art, vol. 12, Kluwer, 1993, pp. 103 112] to continuous piece-wise strictly monotone probability density functions.
The caseloads in German hospitals not meeting minimum volume standards are – with 1 to 2 % - as low as only those for centralized liver and kidney transplantations.
Hyaline cartilage was washed with Hank's solution containing 1.0 g/liter kanamycin for 15 min, crushed to 1.0 2.0 mm fragments in a Petri dish with minimum volume of PRMI-1640, placed into siliconized vials with 1.5% collagenase, and incubated for 18 22 h at 37°C on a shaker.
Strategies to develop convex set models for limited data based on super-ellipsoids with minimum volume and Nataf's transformation based method are proposed.
