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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"ACDF"”.
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Dysphagia and recurrent laryngeal nerve injury in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
… Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is an effective option. It is not well established what factors contribute to dysphagia and recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy complications following ACDF surgery. Objective: 1. To determine the rates of dysphagia and recurrent laryngeal nerve …
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Put Your Back Into It: A Structural and Mechanical Characterization of Iliac Crest and Cervical Spine Autograft for ACDF Surgeries
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is one of the most common cervical spine surgery procedures performed worldwide. ACDF utilizes autologous bone graft (autograft) from the iliac crest to induce fusion between neighboring vertebrae following the procedure. The iliac crest is widely …
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Automatic Document Classification in Small Environments
… Automatic Classification and Document Filing (ACDF) system proposed here is designed to allow users working with files or documents to rely on the system to classify and store them with little manual attention. By using a system built on Hidden Markov Models, the documents in a smaller desktop …
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Including model uncertainty in risk-informed decision-making
… (CDF) and the change in core damage frequency (ACDF) to identify potentially important basic events. We cross-check these with generically important model uncertainties. Then, sensitivity analysis is performed on the basic event probabilities, which are used as a proxy for the model parameters, …
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Simulated Automobile and Rotary-Wing Aircraft Impacts: Dynamic Neck Response after Surgical Treatment for Cervical Spondylosis
… through anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). A relatively newer treatment is arthroplasty with a cervical total disc replacement (CTDR), a motion-sparing procedure designed to maintain adjacent-level loading. While literature exists comparing the effects of cervical arthrodesis and …
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Argument revision and its role in dialogue
In this thesis, a model for argument revision is presented, in terms of the expansion and contraction of a system of structured argumentation. At its core, the model uses the belief revision concept of minimal change, but without requiring a pre-determined entrenchment ordering to establish …
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Redoxmodulation Hippokampaler Neurone
Mitochondrien generieren kontinuierlich geringe Mengen Superoxid, welches im Normalfall in H2O2 umgewandelt wird. Bei Störung der mitochondrialen Respiration kann so die Produktion reaktiver Sauerstoffspezies (ROS) ansteigen und der daraus resultierende oxidative Stress zu Zellschädigung oder …
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Biblical Criticism and Confessional Division from Jean Morin to Richard Simon, c. 1620-1685
This thesis aims to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of biblical criticism in the seventeenth century. Its central objective is to put forward a new interpretation of the work of the Oratorian scholar Richard Simon. It does so by placing Simon's work, above all …
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Generational differences in perceptions of medical student experiences of clinical attachments in surgery: an ethnographic study
For a number of years, the medical student feedback on clinical attachments in General Surgery at the University of Edinburgh Medical School was poor. This phenomenon was a reflection of medical students’ experiences on their surgical attachments in medical schools across the UK to varying degrees. …
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The role of PTEN as a PI(3,4)P2 lipid phosphatase in Class I phosphoinositide 3-kinase signalling
Name: Anna Jadwiga Kielkowska Dissertation title: The role of PTEN as a PI(3,4)P2 lipid phosphatase in Class I phosphoinositide 3-kinase signalling Abstract Class I phosphoinositide 3-kinases (Class I PI3Ks) are essential players involved in the signalling events in the cell and are critical …