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Developing an in vitro model of haematoma for study of intracerebral haemorrhage

Biomater. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4BM00039K, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Siobhan Crilly, Victor Sebastian Tapia, Carlo Bawn, Annalisa Tirella
Intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) is a devastating neurovascular attack with limited treatment options. Alternative, pre-clinical modelling approaches are required to identify and trial therapeutic drug compounds. In this study we have...
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Acer launches 16-inch OLED laptop Swift Edge in India

The all-new Swift Edge is designed to fulfill the needs of the modern hybrid workforce



  • Mobiles & Tablets

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Indkal Technologies licenses Acer brand to manufacture and sell mobile phones 

The agreement will see Acer designing, manufacturing, and distributing smartphones under its brand, focusing on models priced between ₹15,000 and ₹50,000




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Passion in the driver’s seat: meet four of India’s brightest young racers

Meet four of India’s brightest young racers who could put the country back on the fast lane




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Do Our Pacers Need Tips From Pak Pacers?

Pakistan's ODI series victory in Australia showcased the raw pace and skill of their fast bowling attack, spearheaded by Haris Rauf.




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Mekong nations face growing threat to food security amid claims China’s dams exacerbate effects of drought

Fishermen in northeast Thailand say they have seen catches in the Mekong River plunge, while some farmers in Vietnam and Cambodia are leaving for jobs in cities as harvests of rice and other crops shrink.The common thread driving these events is erratic water levels in Asia’s third longest waterway.Water flows along the 4,300km (2,700 mile) Mekong shift naturally between monsoon and dry seasons, but non-governmental groups say the 11 hydroelectric dams on China’s portion of the river – five of…




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For $199, is Acer's C7 Chromebook worth it?

Google surprised many with the launch of a $199 Chromebook this week. So what's the Acer C7 like? Overall the quality and performance is better than I expected for the price and it even has a 320 GB hard drive for those who want local storage.




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Is the Acer W510 Windows 8 tablet better than Windows RT?

Can a Windows 8 tablet running on Intel's Atom be a good middle ground between Windows RT and more expensive devices? Take a look at Acer's W510: great battery life and full Windows 8.




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These are the models F1 racers would have to drive if the cars came from showrooms

Ahead of the 2020 F1 season, here's a look at what the racers would be driving if they had to pilot the best road cars made by their respective teams - and where they'd be on the grid.




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Electric fans may exacerbate heat issues for seniors, study finds

Using electric fans to relieve high levels of heat and humidity may, surprisingly, have the opposite effect for seniors, a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center heart specialists suggests.

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  • Health & Medicine

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COPD exacerbations lead to lung function decline, particularly among those with mild COPD

Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, are associated with significant long-term lung function loss, according to research published online, ahead of print in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

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  • Health & Medicine

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Dry soils exacerbated 2006 heatwave in Northern France

Dry soils and a lack of cloud cover help explain a major heatwave in France, concludes new research. The study indicates that the two drivers were separate, unlinked events that came together at the same time to worsen the 2006 heatwave. Its findings could allow heatwaves to be predicted more accurately to protect public health.




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How ocean racers are helping solve the Great Pacific Garbage Patch problem

The Ocean Cleanup is ready to launch plastic-eating System 001 to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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REDROVER, Family Animation 'Mega Racer' to be Out in Theaters in 2020 Expected to Attend Global Exhibitions to Monitor Market Reactions

CGI animation technology built through 'The Nut Job' franchises is already drawing expectations - Plans to present the 'Value of Korean Animation' in Korea and various countries in the world




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Placer Process Systems to Introduce its Mobile Clean-In-Place Solution at 2020 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium on February 4th

New generation CIP system designed for wineries and other sanitary process environments with fixed tanks that require mobile solutions




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Shift Up Now Racer Ambassador Sarah Montgomery Makes Racing History In Global MX-5 Cup Series

Montgomery became the first female in the history of the series to finish on the podium in a Global Mazda MX-5 Cup race




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Encouraging Girls and Women to Build Confidence and Courage: Shift Up Now Helps Female Racers Realize Their Motorsport Dreams

Shift Up Now is gaining traction and attention as more female racers–– professional and amateur alike–– lend their names to the cause and the organization.  




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New music we love: Fiona Apple's thrilling Fetch the Bolt Cutters is a rush of lacerating lyrics and swirling sonics

You don't have to wander around the internet long before bumping into a rave review of Fiona Apple's new record Fetch the Bolt Cutters: It has inspired breathless acclaim, has already been labeled a masterwork and is notably the first new album in nearly a decade that Pitchfork has assigned a perfect 10/10 rating.…




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Modular, adjustable, prosthetic, hip/shoulder spacer

A modular, adjustable, prosthetic hip/shoulder spacer adapted to being implanted in the hip or shoulder joint; the spacer comprises a frame that supports a rotatable cylinder from which a neck extends with the ball element of the joint attached to its end, and rotating the cylinder reposition the ball in the socket; the stem is connected to the base of the frame and is implanted in the long bone (femur or humerus); the stem may be modified to include a system for delivering medication to the implantation site following surgery. The stem leg and stem base may be modified to form a modular unit to adjust the relation between a center line of the stem leg and a center line of the frame and position of the neck and ball.




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Intervertebral spacer

Disclosed is an assembly and method for implant installation between adjacent vertebral bodies of a patient. The implant has a support body and a rotatable insert therein and the support body is curved for installation between adjacent vertebral bodies transforaminally. An installation instrument is also disclosed for removable attachment to implant and engagement with the rotatable insert to selectively permit rotation between the insert and the support body. The installation instrument extends along a longitudinal tool axis and when the installation instrument is in a first position the insert is rotationally fixed with respect to the support body and when the installation instrument is in a second position the support body may rotate with respect to the insert.




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Method and device for actuating a key of a keyboard with a tracer finger of a robot

There is provided a method for actuating a first key of a keyboard with a tracer finger of a robot. An exemplary method comprises acquiring parameters of the keyboard and determining a position of the first key as a function of the acquired parameters using a model of the keyboard. The exemplary method also comprises guiding the tracer finger of the robot to the determined position of the first key. The exemplary method additionally comprises actuating the first key with the tracer finger of the robot.




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Low profile, wrappable elongate members spacer and method of maintaining elongate members in fixed, spaced relative relation

A low profile, wrappable spacer and method for maintaining a pair of elongate members in fixed, spaced relation to one another is provided. The wrappable spacer includes a flexible elongate body having oppositely facing inner and outer faces extending along laterally spaced, lengthwise extending edges between opposite ends. The inner face has an adhesive surface. At least one member extends between the edges transversely to the lengthwise extending edges. The member extends outwardly from the adhesive surface, wherein the adhesive surface is configured for adhesion to at least one of the member, the elongate members or the outer face.




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C-shaped spacer for rolling bearing

The spacer is adapted for a rolling bearing comprising an inner ring, an outer ring and at least one row of contact rollers disposed between raceways provided on the rings. The spacer comprises opposite inner and outer portions, facing one another and a lateral portion extending transversally between the inner and outer portions and connected to said portions. The inner and outer portions delimit together with the lateral portion a pocket configured to receive a contact roller. The pocket is laterally open on the side opposite to the lateral portion.




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Perforated collapsible spacer

A perforated collapsible spacer controllably takes up space between two bearings on an automotive pinion. The perforated collapsible spacer is formed from a steel sheet having longitudinal edges that are joined together in a form of a tube having longitudinal perforated sections formed in its central portion. As a pinion nut is tightened, an axial clamping force is applied to the collapsible spacer that is located between tail and head bearing cones, where the central portion of the collapsible spacer is caused to buckle, so as to adjust the final space between the bearing cones while a spring force is maintained on the bearings. Yield points of the central portion with the perforated sections that buckle, are controllable depending on the steel sheet material thickness, and the size, shape and quantity of perforations in the steel sheet.




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Composite vertebral spacers and instrument

An intervertebral fusion cage that is adapted to contain an inserter within its inner volume during insertion of the cage.




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Bearing spacer and housing

An exemplary center housing rotating assembly includes a turbine wheel (260); a compressor wheel (240); a center housing (210) that includes a through bore (215), extending from a compressor end to a turbine end along a bore axis, and a recess (217), adjacent the bore, in a plane orthogonal to the bore axis; a bearing assembly (230) positioned in the bore that includes a keyway (233); and an anti-rotation component (280) seated in the recess and at least partially in the keyway to restrict rotation of the bearing assembly in the bore. Various other exemplary devices, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.




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Display apparatus having spacers with different heights and different upper and lower surface areas

A display apparatus includes a lower substrate, an upper substrate, a spacer and an image display layer. The spacer includes a main spacer, a first sub-spacer and a second sub-spacer. The main spacer has a height greater than that of the first and second sub-spacers. The second sub-spacer has an area wider than that of the main spacer and the first sub-spacer.




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Nuclear fuel assembly with a lock-support spacer grid

An improved grid for a nuclear reactor fuel assembly that has an egg-crate base grid as the primary support structure with each support cell of the base grid that supports a fuel rod having a lock-support sleeve that is rotatable within the support cell between a first and second orientation. In the first orientation the lock-support sleeve fits loosely within the support cell of the base grid and respectively, loosely receives the fuel rods that are loaded therein. The lock-support sleeves are then rotated to a second orientation that locks the fuel rods axially within the support cells.




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Spacer for justifying lines of type




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Spacer fluid additive

A spacer fluid comprises a fluid and a viscosity agent. The viscosity agent is a mixture of at least two polyvinylalcohol compositions. A first polyvinylalcohol composition comprises polyvinylalcohols having a first degree of hydrolysis and a second polyvinylalcohol composition comprises polyvinylalcohols having a second degree of hydrolysis. The first and second degrees of hydrolysis are substantially different such that the rheology of the spacer fluid is stable during temperatures changes.




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Making bound document having fastener and spacer

Sheets are bound to form a bound document by fastening together the sheets and a binding strip. A spacer is applied to a back sheet adjacent to the feet of the fasteners. A wraparound portion of the binding strip is folded around the spine edges of the sheets so that adhesive on the strip contacts the spacer or the back sheet farther from the spine than the feet of the fasteners. The adhesive is affixed to the back sheet. The binding strip includes a spacer adjacent to the heads of the fasteners, protruding above the face-attachment portion at least as far as the heads of the fasteners do.




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Binding strip including spacer

A binding strip includes a substrate having an interior surface and an exterior surface, a spine-alignment edge, a free edge opposite the spine-alignment edge and substantially non-perpendicular thereto, a face-attachment portion of the exterior surface adjacent to the spine-alignment edge, and a wraparound portion of the interior surface adjacent to the free edge. A border is defined laterally between the face-attachment portion and the wraparound portion and substantially parallel to the spine-alignment edge. An adhesive layer is arranged over the wraparound portion. A first spacer is affixed to the interior surface opposite the face-attachment portion so that a fastener area is defined. The spacer has a selected thickness.




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Bound document having binding strip with spacer

A bound document has front, back, and interior sheets with spine edges. The document has a binding strip and fasteners binding the sheets and the binding strip together. The strip has a flexible substrate with a face-attachment portion through which the fasteners are driven, and a wraparound portion that is bent so adhesive on the wraparound portion contacts the back sheet farther from the spine edge of the book than the feet of the fasteners. The strip also has a first spacer affixed to the interior surface opposite the face-attachment portion so that a fastener area is defined, the spacer at least as thick as the protrusion of the heads of the fasteners above the face-attachment portion.




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Aerial roller spacer apparatus and associated methods thereof

An aerial roller spacer apparatus and related methods thereto are provided. The aerial roller spacer apparatus includes a spacer body. At least one saddle is formed on the spacer body. A spacer arm is connected to the spacer body at a first end, wherein the spacer arm extends away from the spacer body. A roller assembly is positioned proximate to a second end of the spacer arm, wherein the roller assembly has two rotatable roller halves that are removably engagable with one another with at least one fastener. A messenger groove is formed between the two rotatable roller halves.




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Spacer molds with releasable securement

A mold for forming a temporary prosthesis has at least two mold members at least partially separable from each other. The at least two mold members cooperatively define a generally enclosed interior cavity for forming the temporary prosthesis. The mold has a securement structure mounted on the at least two mold members for securing the at least two mold members to each other during the forming of the temporary prosthesis. The securement structure is removable from the at least two mold members by hand and without the use of a tool.




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Modular articulating cement spacer

The present teachings provide a modular articulating cement spacer mold for forming a temporary implant comprising a mold first portion, a mold second portion, and a ventilation forming surface feature on an interior surface of at least one of the mold first portion or the mold second portion. The first mold portion and the second mold portion have corresponding interior surfaces that form a cavity therebetween.




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Spacer and gasket assembly for use on an aircraft

A spacer and gasket assembly is shown for receipt between a static structure having an outer and inner surface and fastener holes therethrough and a removable structure having a base with fastener holes and an upper surface and a lower surface. The static structure and removable structure are engaged through a multiplicity of fasteners having a shaft diameter. The fasteners are adapted to apply a compression on the gasket between the static structure and the removable structure. The static structure and the removable structure have opposed, typically flat, facing walls. The spacer and gasket assembly comprising a substantially non-compressible spacer adapted for receipt between the static structure and the removable structure having a spacer thickness. A gasket has a deformable, flowable, elastomeric body and a skeleton having a skeleton thickness, the skeleton substantially integral with the body. The gasket has an uncompressed gasket thickness. The spacer and the gasket are adapted to be placed substantially between the facing walls of the static structure and the removable structure and the removable structure will compress and deform the gasket when the fasteners are torqued down.




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Hanger including depending elongate member foldable on itself to form flat bottom spacer

The present invention discloses a device for hanging clothes, comprising an engaging portion and a deformable elongate member, the elongate member comprising a connection mechanism such that the elongate member can be deformed back upon itself and connected to itself to form a loop.




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Methods for manufacturing fluid-filled chambers incorporating spacer textile materials

A method for manufacturing a fluid-filled chamber may include obtaining a spacer textile material a stabilization structure. A tensile member is removed from an area of the spacer textile material where the stabilizing structure is absent. The tensile member is located between a first polymer element and a second polymer element. Additionally, (a) the first layer is bonded to the first polymer element, (b) the second layer is bonded to the second polymer element, and (c) the first polymer element and the second polymer element are bonded together around a periphery of the tensile member.




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Iglesia Católica suspende 19 sacerdotes por presuntos actos de abuso sexual




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'Huge' crowd tipped to farewell around the world yacht racers

Officials are hoping for a big turnout at the restart of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in Albany today.





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Mike Storen, 1st GM in Pacers history, dies at 84




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Axiom Foods, Inc. v. Acerchem Int'l

(United States Ninth Circuit) - In a civil procedure action, arising from a copyright infringement action brought by plaintiffs, American companies in the natural foods industry, against defendant, a UK limited company, after defendant sent an email newsletter containing plaintiffs' logos to 343 email addresses, the district court's dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction is affirmed where defendant's suit-related conduct did not create a substantial connection with California.




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Axiom Foods, Inc. v. Acerchem Int'l

(United States Ninth Circuit) - In a civil procedure action, arising from a copyright infringement action brought by plaintiffs, American companies in the natural foods industry, against defendant, a UK limited company, after defendant sent an email newsletter containing plaintiffs' logos to 343 email addresses, the district court's dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction is affirmed where defendant's suit-related conduct did not create a substantial connection with California.




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Pacers Athletes Heading To Armory Youth In NY

This weekend the Bermuda Pacers Track Club will compete in the 2020 Armory Youth Championships in New York. The event will be held at the Armory on Monday, February 17, 2020 and will see hundreds of junior athletes from across the region. Distance runner and Carifta qualifier Ryan Outerbridge, sprinters Mikal Dill and Koa Goodchild […]

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Bermuda Pacers Win 15 Medals In New York

Members of the Bermuda Pacers Track Club competed in the 2020 Armory Youth Championships in New York, winning a total of 15 medals – 6 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze. Sancho Smith picked up 2 gold medals claiming the 15-16 boys 800 and the 15-16 boys 400 dash gold medals. Smith clocked 51.59 in […]

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Pacers Start Competing In AAU Cross-Country

Bermuda Pacers athletes started competing at the 2019 AAU Cross- Country Championship. In the Girl’s Division, Jezhari Talbot competed in the 15-18 Girls 5K race, finishing 46th clocking a time of 22:31.9. while Jaeda Grant finished 98th in the 11-12 Girls 3K race in a time of 13:23.6. Azari Jones crossed the line in a […]

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9-Year-Old Racer Works Towards MiniGP Debut

9-year-old Aeziah Divine is pursuing his dream of advancing his road racing career in the UK miniGP series in 2019, with the young rider aiming to make it onto the UK grid and represent his country. Aeziah has spent most of his life obsessed with bikes; he got his first electric motorcycle at age four, joined […]

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BMRA Youth Racers Fundraising For UK Trip

Youth racers from the Bermuda Motorcycle Racing Association are fundraising for an overseas training intensive in England, which is set to take place next year. The group first participated in an international training weekend at the Willow Springs International Raceway in California in April 2018, and in 2020, they are travelling across England to maximise […]

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