Neo-Traditional Housing and Town Planning: An Assessment

Neo-Traditional Housing and Town Planning: An Assessmen

Narrative Framing of U.S. Military Females in Combat: Inclusion Versus Resistance

This study utilizes discursive data to examine how the strategic use of narratives inform policies that shape women\u27s participation in military service overall and more specific, the current controversy over exclusion of women from participation in combat roles within the U.S. military. Specifically, I examine popular military newspapers, blogs and the Department of Defense 2012 Report regarding policies and regulations of female service members. In this study, I provide a sociological analysis of current military-cultural narratives and the institutional narrative discussing women\u27s participation in combat roles in order to provide evidence of the current threat to the military form of hegemonic masculinity

Reconstruction of Mandibular Defects Using Bone Morphogenic Protein: Can Growth Factors Replace the Need for Autologous Bone Grafts? A Systematic Review of the Literature

Autogenous bone is still considered the “gold standard” of regenerative and reconstructive procedures involving mandibular defects. However, harvesting of this material can lead to many complications like increasing morbidity, expanding of the surgical time, and incomplete healing of the donor site. In the last few years many authors looked for the development of effective reconstruction procedures using osteoinductive factors without the need for conventional bone grafting. The first-in-human study involving the use of Bone Morphongenic Proteins (rhBMP) for mandibular reconstruction was performed in 2001 by Moghadam. Only few articles have been reported in the literature since then. The purpose of this study was to search and analyze the literature involving the use of rhBMP for reconstruction of mandibular defects. In all the studies reported, authors agree that the use of grown factors may represent the future of regenerative procedures with more research necessary for confirmation

The Optimist, The Pessimist, The Altruist

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«Die Gegenwart ist nichts als eine Hypothese». Formen und Funktionen von Experimentalität in Robert Musils «Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften»

Based on the notion of experiments as “Experimentalsysteme” (Rheinberger) explicated by recent history of science studies the following paper examines how experiments are conducted in and are relevant to Robert Musil’s modern novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften on a thematic, textual, epistemological and poetological level. Focus areas are representa­tions of different experimental constellations, i.e. scientific, poetic and thought experi­ments, the relation of experimental literary operations and scientific experimentation as well as Musil’s understanding of essayism as an experimental configuration between science and aesthetics

Segmental mandibular bone reconstruction with a carbonate‐substituted hydroxyapatite‐coated modular endoprosthetic poly(ɛ‐caprolactone) scaffold in Macaca fascicularis

A bio‐degradable scaffold incorporating osteoinductive factors is one of the alternative methods for achieving the regeneration of a mandibular bone defect. The current pilot study addressed such a bone reconstruction in a non‐human primate model, Macaca fascicularis monkeys, with an engineered poly(ɛ‐caprolactone) (PCL) scaffold, provided with a carbonate‐substituted hydroxyapatite coating. The scaffolds were implanted into unilaterally created mandibular segmental defects in 24 monkeys. Three experimental groups were formed: (1) scaffolds with rhBMP‐2 ( n = 8), (2) scaffolds with autologous mixed bone marrow cells ( n = 8), and (3) empty scaffolds as a control group ( n = 8). Evaluation was based on clinical observation as well as micro‐CT, mechanical, and histological analyses. Despite a high infection rate, the overall results showed that the currently designed PCL scaffolds had insufficient load‐bearing capability, and complete bone union was not achieved after 6 months of implantation. Nevertheless, the group of PCL scaffolds loaded with rhBMP‐2 showed evidence of bone‐regenerative potential, in contrast to PCL with autologous mixed bone marrow cells and the control group. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part B: Appl Biomater, 102B: 962–976, 2014.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/107529/1/jbmb33077.pd