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Spur gear teeth reconstruction via direct laser deposition
Fatigue damage, such as pitting and tooth root fatigue fracture, is one of several gear failure modes encountered in practical applications. Some of these failure modes are traditionally repairable, while othe...
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Pre-clinical Study of a Customized Rehabilitation Device Prototype for Patients with Immobility Syndrome
To reduce the dreadful consequences of immobility syndrome in the elderly population and adults and young people with some restriction of mobility or disability, an innovative device - ABLEFIT - was designed. ...
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Effect of environmental relative humidity in the tensile strength of layering in slate stone
Slate is a natural stone widely used for building, for which is subjected to regulations and standards in order to be commercialized. As far as the influence of water is considered, only detailed studies are c...
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Fertility Preservation in an Adolescent with an Ovotesticular Disorder of Sexual Development
A 12-year-old boy was referred to pediatric surgery for correction of right unilateral cryptorchidism. The surgeon suspected the presence of testicular and ovarian tissue in the right gonad, and so the child w...
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Open AccessAnti-leukemic activity and tolerability of anti-human CD47 monoclonal antibodies
CD47, a broadly expressed cell surface protein, inhibits cell phagocytosis via interaction with phagocyte-expressed SIRPα. A variety of hematological malignancies demonstrate elevated CD47 expression, suggesti...
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Rad54 and Mus81 cooperation promotes DNA damage repair and restrains chromosome missegregation
Rad54 and Mus81 mammalian proteins physically interact and are important for the homologous recombination DNA repair pathway; however, their functional interactions in vivo are poorly defined. Here, we show that ...
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A simple assumed-strain quadrilateral shell element for finite strains and fracture
This work recovers an established technique for improving quadrilateral shell element performance in both out-of-plane and in-plane bending cases using a mixed formulation. A four-field variational principle i...
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Cooperation of Blm and Mus81 in development, fertility, genomic integrity and cancer suppression
BLM is a DNA helicase important for the restart of stalled replication forks and for homologous recombination (HR) repair. Mutations of BLM lead to Bloom Syndrome, a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterize...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quantitative Evaluation of ECG Changes Reflecting Heart Activity Control during Postural Changes
The system for investigation of heart activity control in changing gravity conditions was elaborated in cooperation between scientists of Kaunas University of Medicine and Microgravity Centre, Pontifícia Unive...
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Essential role for Bclaf1 in lung development and immune system function
Bcl-2 associated factor 1 (Bclaf1) is a nuclear protein that was originally identified in a screen of proteins that interact with the adenoviral bcl-2 homolog E1B19K. Overexpression of Bclaf1 was shown to resu...
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Mechanical ventilation in a critical care unit in southern Brazil: mortality risk factors
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Intensive care unit patients on mechanical ventilation at a university hospital in southern Brazil: characteristics, mortality, frequency, and mortality risk factors
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Population dynamics and secondary production of the wedge clam Donax hanleyanus (Bivalvia: Donacidae) on a high-energy, subtropical beach of Brazil
The population biology of Donax hanleyanus (Philippi, 1845) (Bivalvia: Donacidae) was studied by monthly sampling from June 1998 through June 2000, at Restinga da Marambaia Beach, Brazil. Two transects were esta...
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Behavioural strategies and surface activity of the sandhopper Pseudorchestoidea brasiliensis (Amphipoda: Talitridae) on a Brazilian beach
The behaviour and surface activity of Pseudorchestoidea brasiliensis (Dana, 1853) was studied at the Boqueirão Beach, southeast Brazil. In May 1995, sampling was performed in two periods of 24 h, the first at ne...
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Fortification of Sugar with Iron. Determination of the Dose Impact
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Fortification With Aminochelate Iron in Grains-Bread and Cookies Used in the School Meals of Pre School Children 9
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One real advantage of the distally based posterior interosseous island flap
This paper describes and discusses some clinical applications of the posterior interosseous forearm flap in hand reconstruction, including the fact that damage to the radial artery or palmar arches was present...
