Landmark method

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It has been reported that the direction of the guidewire J-tip is associated with misplacement of a central venous catheter. We hypothesized that real-time ultrasound-guided infraclavicular subclavian venous cannulation would be less influenced by the direction of guidewire J-tip compared to landmark method.

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Lumbar puncture for spinal or epidural anesthesia is commonly performed by palpating bony landmarks, but identification of the desired intervertebral level is often inaccurate. It is unclear whether such inaccuracy is related to patient factors, such as body mass index and degree of lumbar flexion.

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Ultrasound guidance for central venous catheterization is a commonly used alternative to the conventional landmark method. Because from the German perspective, the cost-effectiveness of ultrasound guidance is unclear, this study examined the cost-effectiveness of ultrasound guidance versus the landmark method for adults undergoing a central venous catheterization.

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The primary goal of this study was to create a frequency map of a series of surgically treated bothcolumn fractures and to explore its implications on surgical management. Methods: We used a consecutive series of 71 both-column fractures to create 3-dimensional reconstruction images, which were superimposed and oriented to fit a model hemipelvis template by aligning specific pelvis landmarks.

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In this paper, we have attempted to focus on the continuous transition of the biped mechanism from the single support phase (SSP) to the double support phase (DSP) and vice versa. Three methods have been compared for this purpose.

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Document "Probiotics and prebiotic" presentation of content: Positioning and draping, inspection, percussion, the landmarks used in Nixon’s Method, The Landmarks for Traube’s Space and the area to percuss to elicit Castell’s sign.

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This work describes an online application that uses Natural Language Generation (NLG) methods to generate walking directions in combination with dynamic 2D visualisation. We make use of third party resources, which provide for a given query (geographic) routes and landmarks along the way. We present a statistical model that can be used for generating natural language directions. This model is trained on a corpus of walking directions annotated with POS, grammatical information, frame-semantics and markup for temporal structure. ...

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From this early stage, the term ‘independent’ gained romantic connotation, signifying the brave efforts of rebels fighting against a powerful trust. Independent production in this era is often given the credit for a number of landmark developments, including the shift of the centre of gravity of the film business to California and the initiation of the star system, although both claims owe more to myth than reality.

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The DNA adenine methylation status on specific 5¢-GANTC-3¢ sites and its change during the establishment of plant–microbe interactions was demonstrated in several species ofa-proteobacteria. Restriction landmark genome scanning (RLGS), which is a high-resolution two dimensional DNA electrophoresis method, was used to monitor the genomewide change in methylation.

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Restriction landmark genomic scanning (RLGS) is a powerful method for the systematic detection of genetic mutations in DNA length and epigenetic alteration due to DNA methylation. However, the identification of poly-morphic spots is difficult because the resulting RLGS spots contain very little target DNA and many non-labeled DNA fragments.

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The second chapter discusses how DNA bisulfite treatment together with high-throughput sequencing allows determining the DNA methylation on a whole genome scale at single cytosine resolution and introduces software for analysis of bisulfite sequencing data. The third chapter presents analysis of GC3-rich genes that have more methylation targets.

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Recently, several solutions to the robot localisation problem have been proposed in the scientific community. In this chapter we present a localisation of a visual guided quadruped walking robot in a dynamic environment. We investigate the quality of robot localisation and landmark detection, in which robots perform the RoboCup competition (Kitano et al., 1997). The first part presents an algorithm to determine any entity of interest in a global reference frame, where the robot needs to locate landmarks within its surroundings.

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Recently, several solutions to the robot localisation problem have been proposed in the scientific community. In this chapter we present a localisation of a visual guided quadruped walking robot in a dynamic environment. We investigate the quality of robot localisation and landmark detection, in which robots perform the RoboCup competition (Kitano et al., 1997). The first part presents an algorithm to determine any entity of interest in a global reference frame, where the robot needs to locate landmarks within its surroundings.

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MAXIMUM PRINCIPLES FOR A FAMILY OF NONLOCAL BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS PAUL W. ELOE Received 21 October 2003 and in revised form 16 February 2004 We study a family of three-point nonlocal boundary value problems (BVPs) for an nthorder linear forward difference equation. In particular, we obtain a maximum principle and determine sign properties of a corresponding Green function. Of interest, we show that the methods used for two-point disconjugacy or right-disfocality results apply to this family of three-point BVPs. 1.

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Chapter 2 HAZARDS IN THE CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRIES INTRODUCTION The multitude of products and diversity of processes in the petrochemical industries is vast, with numerous situations that may lead to high risk situations both for workers and communities neighboring operations. Perhaps one of the worst chemical disasters of the century was Bhopal, India. The city of Bhopal (1991 pop. 1,063,662), central India, capital of Madhya Pradesh state, was founded in 1728. Bhopal is a railway junction and industrial center, producing electrical equipment, textiles, and jewelry.

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PARAMETER-BASED KALMAN FILTER TRAINING: THEORY AND IMPLEMENTATION Gintaras V. Puskorius and Lee A. Feldkamp Ford Research Laboratory, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.A. (gpuskori@ford.com, lfeldkam@ford.com) 2.

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Although the rediscovery in the mid 1980s of the backpropagation algorithm by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams [1] has long been viewed as a landmark event in the history of neural network computing and has led to a sustained resurgence of activity, the relative ineffectiveness of this simple gradient method has motivated many researchers to develop enhanced training procedures. In fact, the neural network literature has been inundated with papers proposing alternative training Kalman Filtering and Neural Networks...

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ASM International is pleased to publish ASM Handbook, Volume 13A, Corrosion: Fundamentals, Testing, and Protection, the first book in a two-volume revision of the landmark 1987 Metals Handbook, 9th Edition volume on corrosion. ASM Handbook, Volume 13A has been completely revised and updated to address the needs of ASM International members and the global technical community for current and comprehensive information on corrosion principles, evaluation techniques, and protection methods.

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