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The Effect of Knee Postures and Cushions in the Load Transmission of Impact Loading-an in Vitro Biomechanical Porcine Model
No full textWang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture
Get PDFThis thesis examines the commercialisation of Chinese culture that has taken place over the past twenty years in mainland China. It explores the contribution of Wang Shuo, a cultural figure who straddles different fields of culture, moving from literature to the ultimate mass culture medium of television, this study plots Wang Shuo' s development from educational failure, to business failure, to fiction writer, film & TV editor, film director and cultural critic and analyst. His stories, films, TV series and articles have caused shock-waves throughout national cultural circles as he has transformed the terms of the debate from academic discourse to a validation of the role of the market in the culture field. Although Wang Shuo has not been labelled as a dissident, his approach to the culture market has had a more subversive effect on official ideology that those overt dissidents who have had to live in exile or have been imprisoned. He has utilised the language of official ideology to satirise the authorities, turning the ideology and its supporters into figures of fun. Yet his own goals have been strictly personal and economic ones. The authorities recognize the value of Wang Shuo's work in the cultural market but at the same time distrust his works and place him under strict censorship. Examining the way Wang Shuo and people surround him have succeeded in different fields of cultural achievement is a mirror to understanding the process of the transformation of contemporary Chinese culture from a socialist state-controlled culture to a market-oriented mass culture industry
A Large Brunner's Gland Adenoma of Duodenum Removed by Endoscopic Polypectomy: Report of a Case
No full textTHE LOAD SHARING CONTRIBUTION OF SPINAL FACET JOINT DURING IMPACT LOADING – A PORCINE BIOMECHANICAL MODEL
No full textThe components that share the loading of motion segment include the
facet joint and disc. Nachemson [1] reported the facet joint share 18%
of vertical loading in a motion segment; while many other researchers
reported the load sharing percentage of facet joint ranges from 1% to
57% [2,3]. The current study developed a unique apparatus using an in
vitro porcine spine model to quantify the alteration of loading in the
facet joint under impact compressive loading at different loading
conditions. A drop tower type impact apparatus was used to produce
the impact energy for the motion segment. A 6-D load cell was placed
under the specimen to detect the force and moment responses. The
pressure sensor was inserted into the facet joint to find the contact
force. The pointed axial compressive forces were applied at 8 locations
from anterior to posterior of upper vertebrae to mimic different impact
loading conditions. The impact energy was fixed at 1.2 J. We found
that; when the loading was applied anteriorly, the facet joint sustained
very small percentages of the loading; while the location of the loading
moved posteriorly, the facet joint sharing percentages increased. The
largest sharing percentages of facet joint reached 30% in the current
study
STUDY OF LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DIAMETER–PEAK STRESS RELATIONSHIP BEFORE AND AFTER VALVE REPLACEMENT OPERATION FOR PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC AORTIC REGURGITATION
No full text膝關節受衝擊時之力學與破壞分析 - 退化性與外傷後關節炎形成之物理機制探討
No full textDegenerative osteoarthritis is recognized as the consequences of
mechanical injuries. The abnormal impact force applied to articular
cartilage would result in bone fracture or surface fissuring, and would
cause the osteoarthritis [1,2]. The relation among the injury and impact
energy was well studied. However, how the external energy
attenuated to the internal joint is not carefully studied yet. The porcine
knee joint was used as a biomechanical model for the simulation of
human knee joint during impact loading. The objective of current
study was to find the variation of kinetic characteristics between
human and porcine knee joint during axial impact loading. Eight
fresh-frozen knee joints from 10 month-old swine and seven cadaver
human knee joints were used in the experiment. The mechanical
responses such as forces and bending moment of knee joint, and the
accelerations of femur was quantitatively analyzed. The results
showed that the axial force response between human and porcine
joints was similar, however, the anteroposterior shear, flexion bening
moment and accelerations of these two joints were different
Intraoperative Myelography in Minimally Invasive Decompression for Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
No full textRheology of Intervertebral Disc An Ex Vivo Study on the Effect of Loading History, Loading Magnitude, Fatigue Loading, and Disc Degeneration
No full textApplication for Wen-Lin Wang to attend Springfield College
No full textThis two-page document is the application for Wen-Lin Wang to attend Springfield College, then known as the International YMCA College. The document contains basic biographical information including what sports they played and what experience he had with the YMCA
The implantation of non-cell-based materials to prevent the recurrent disc herniation: an in vivo porcine model using quantitative discomanometry examination.
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