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Grafting the cactus
Grafting the Cactus is a book-length work of creative nonfiction that explores the porous boundary between landscape and identity. This collection of personal and environmental essays begins with a cholla cactus, ripped from a landscaped yard in Colorado and left on the side of the road, then …
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Durational Painting: gifting, grafting, hosting, collaborating
This thesis takes as its focus contemporary painting, and develops an understanding of painting as a time-based medium. My research project addresses the array of strategies artists employ to produce durational paintings, a term I have coined as a means of referring to paintings that destabilise …
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Computer Modelling Informed Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
… and morbidity worldwide. Coronary artery bypass grafting operations have been performed as a treatment for this disease for over 60 years. There has been recent interest in the exclusive use of arterial grafts as conduits for this operation, in particular bilateral internal mammary arteries, on …
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Modelling of optical fibre long-period grafting sensors.
In this thesis a mathematical model of the long-period fibre grating (LPG) sensor has been developed. Numerical simulation of the LPG transmission spectrum behavior is studied when changing the refractive index of the ambient. The attenuation bands are seen to shift to shorter wavelengths as the …
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Synthesis and Grafting To of Biomimetic Bottlebrush Polymers
<p>Specifically-adsorbed bottlebrush coatings are found in nature as brush-like glycoproteins that decorate biointerfaces and provide anti-fouling, lubrication, or wear-protection. These molecules contain a surface-adhesive headgroup to anchor macromolecules to a target surface and a bottlebrush …
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Outcomes of "off-pump" coronary artery bypass grafting in a developing country : advantages over coronary artery bypass grafting on cardiopulmonary bypass
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) was developed to avoid the deleterious effects of CPB. Current literature reveals some peri-operative advantages of OPCAB, with few studies detailing these in Africa. We review our institutional experience with both approaches in higher risk patients …
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Irradiation grafting of styrene onto dacron fibers and films
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1959
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Nurses' perceptions of patients' needs post coronary artery bypass grafting
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a stressful and emotional event for the patient, who faces his/her own mortality and possibly the need for an altered lifestyle. Identifying the needs of patients following an acute cardiac event is an essential step in the development of nursing …
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Development of bio-composites with novel characteristics through enzymatic grafting
Enzymatic grafting of biopolymers has recently been the focus of green chemistry technologies due to the growing environmental concerns, and subsequent legal restrictions. Over the last decade, research covering various applications of enzymes like lipases and laccases has been increased rapidly, …
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The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Ancient Understanding of Grafting
… recognized as a representation of horticultural grafting. A close examination of the vegetal forms on the dado of the monument demonstrates that different types of plants have been combined in ways that clearly follow the ancient understanding and significance of horticultural grafting. Grafting …
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Timing of alveolar cleft bone grafting in maxillary alveolar cleft defects
… the best time for secondary alveolar cleft bone grafting, including chronological age, skeletal age, and dental age. However, few studies have employed objective methods of assessment that would permit statistical analysis. Fifty-nine patients with clefts of the alveolus who acquired secondary …
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Treatment of enchondroma of hand using calcium sulfate and autobone grafting
… treated by curettage followed by cancellous grafting. Auto-bone grafting should be done in general anesthesia to harvest from the iliac crest, and there is donor-site morbidity such as pain and possible infection. Therefore, we studied the efficacy of injectable calcium sulfate as bone …
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Autologus fat grafting for mild to moderate velopharyngeal insufficiency: Our experience
… easily and is non-allergenic. The outcome of fat grafting for VPI is good and stable long term, albeit unpredictable due to the resorption of fat. The procedure may therefore need to be repeated in order to achieve the desired results. The aim of this study is to evaluate and document the outcome …
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Grafting the sub-terrain: Working from the ground up in Mowbray
… in poor structure and depleted properties. Grafting is a horticultural technique used for propagation of similar productive trees, combining one plant portion with another to assist growth of the plant as an integrated whole. The concept of grafting can be applied to soils and reshaping of …
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THE EFFECTS OF BONE GRAFTING ON CALVARIAL HEALING IN A RAT MODEL
It remains unknown whether bone grafting influences dural osteogenesis following cranial reconstruction. The purpose o f this study is to 1) develop a model to study non-vascularized and vascularized calvarial grafts; and 2) compare effects o f bone graft vascularity on calvarial healing. …
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Synthesis of Bottlebrush Polymers Using the Grafting-Through and Transfer-To Methods
… of these large macromolecules using the grafting-through strategy in the first section and the transfer-to strategy in the second section. For the first time the effect of anchor group chemistry—the configuration of atoms linking the polymer to a polymerizable norbornene—was studied on …
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Grafting polymers on nanosheets : a route for the fabrication of freestanding polymer brushes
… carbon-based nanosheet and self-initiated photografting-photopolymerization (SIPGP) to obtain well defined freestanding homogenous and micro- and nanostructured polymer brushes. This new approach offers several advantages: 1. Nanosheets are thermally and mechanically extremely stable. This will …
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Mechanical and biological augmentation of allograft and synthetic graft in impaction bone grafting
… stromal cells<br/>(HBMSC) in Impaction Bone Grafting (IBG).<br/><br/>• To investigate the potential role of a synthetic graft, Poly (DL-lactic acid),<br/>(PDLLA) as a tissue engineering scaffold and a graft extender in IBG.<br/><br/>• To investigate methods to improve graft compaction and …
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