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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Bruising"”.
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The biomechanics of bruising
… injuries such as abrasions, avulsions and bruising can prove to be vital pieces of evidence. Bruising is the most common of these injuries, yet there is a lack of understanding of the parameters required for their formation. Furthermore there is little agreement on a standard method of …
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Investigation into the relationship between blunt impacts and bruising
Bruising is an injury commonly observed within suspect cases of assault or abuse, however their interpretation is purely visual. Although the biology of bruising is known, how a blunt impact initiates bruising and influences its severity is not understood. Furthermore, the standard method of …
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Pre-slaughter factors affecting mobility, blood parameters, bruising, and muscle pH of finished beef cattle in the United States
… cortisol, creatine kinase, and lactate. Carcass bruising was scored using a modified version of the National Beef Quality Audit's bruise scoring methodology (i.e., no bruise, one bruise that was ≤ the size of a deck of cards, one bruise that was > than the size of a deck of cards, and multiple …
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Quality and Consumer Acceptance in Relation to Post-Harvest Browning of Cultivated Mushrooms
… dry environment (high evaporation, 83-85.5% RH). Bruising on harvest measured by a bruising comparator indicated the same trends. No significant differences were found between the two environments for an off-white strain except in respect of bruising. Mushrooms from the wet environment bruised …
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Colorado Stories: Interpreting HIstory for Public Audiences at the History Colorado Center
… study, audience research and occasionally bruising negotiations with stakeholders. The formulation of the Colorado Stories exhibit reveals the intersection of history, memory, representation, and the creation of historical narratives for lay audiences. At the same time, they remind …
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Bleeding Risk Following Percutaneous Intervention in Patients with Diabetes Prescribed Dual Anti Platelet Therapy
… In a sensitivity analysis, we excluded bruising from BARC-defined bleeding events. Covariates included in the model were selected a priori and were abstracted from the medical record by study coordinators. Covariates included demographic (e.g. age, insurance status) and clinical (e.g. …
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The Body Politic: Imperial Masculinity, the Great War, and the Struggle for the Indian Self, 1914--1918
"I argue that this resulted in a bruising ideological struggle to either preserve or alter the qualities that defined Indian identity not just within the colony itself, but also in the transnational imperial world. The battle, carried out via the metropolitan and Indian presses, hinged upon the …
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A hydraulic damping approach to variable stroke tree shaker design
… successful system has yet been developed. Bruising of the fruit has been a prime drawback to current mechanical harvesting methods. One practical approach to mechanized apple harvesting is to shake the trunk or limb of the tree to remove the fruit. With this method, apple detachment appears …
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Positional related injury in elite female field hockey players
… most common type of injury was categorised as bruising or inflammation (27%), predominantly occurring in the lower limb with most of these cases reported as shin splints. Other prevalent types of injury included joint sprains (119%) and muscle hypertonicity (19%) occurring in the ankle and …
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National market cow and bull beef quality audit-2007: a survey of producer-related defects
… 1999, while beef cows were less lame. Carcass bruising was less evident during the 2007 audit than in previous audits. Fewer cattle had arthritic joints in 2007 than in 1999. An increase in liver, tripe, heart, head, and tongue condemnation was witnessed in 2007 than in 1999. Carcass weights …
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Vaikų smurtinių traumų mechanizmas ir amžiaus ypatumai /
… of the nose and 5th metacarpal bone, multiple bruising, and stab, cut or shot wounds. In the night time, between 23:00 and 6:00 hours children sustained 19.8% of all violent traumas and in the group of 16-17 year olds – as many as 38.3%. This fact may help in planning preventive measures to …
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The nineteenth-century English dialect novel
… the first time in print. This chapter maps the bruising revision process that Gaskell was compelled to undertake by reader responses, as well as the productive links that can be drawn between dialect novels and dialect dictionaries of this period. Chapter Three explores Benjamin Brierley’s …
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Effects of Apple Development and Damage on the Internalization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 as Observed Under Field and Laboratory Conditions
… one of three treatments; unblemished control, bruising, or puncturing. The apples were inoculated by immersion in cold water containing E. coli O157:H7 GFP, incubated for three days then microbiologically analyzed for presence of the bacteria. In all cases, the punctured apples of each cultivar …
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Green manufacturing in the medical device industry : a case study
… The scaffold prevents secondary injury (bruising and scarring) formation by filling the void space left by the injury, promoting cell growth over deleterious apoptosis (cell death), and slowly degrading away over the course of approximately one month. Med Dev's second generation …
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The Epidemiology and Patient Perspectives of Glucocorticoid Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Inflammatory Diseases
… be easily measured, such as skin thinning/easy bruising, sleep disturbance, mood disturbance, and change in facial shape. This chapter also discusses the role of Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) in developing a PRO for GC use, describing additional work by the author contributing to …