The procedure uses small cuts over the joint to insert cameras and
uses small instruments to assess joint damage and plan joint repair.
Minimally invasive surgery is a special way of performing surgery
using smaller instruments and smaller incisions than traditional surgical methods.
Not exact matches
They
used the sticky stuff, originally intended to ease their boredom, to stop
small instruments from floating amuck in zero gravity.
By putting a little money aside for you every day, ChangEd
uses the «
small steps make a difference» method that produces such effective results in other realms, like learning a new
instrument or reaching a fitness goal.
Liboiron
uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a
small but growing movement for people who make technology and
instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»
The Specialist
uses a
small metal
instrument to dig out one hardened wax clump around the 0:44 mark.
He also wants to change how the
instruments used for reading and writing are manufactured to make them much
smaller.
The purpose was to increase depth - relating and honest confrontation among the trainees and to provide a model of how to
use small groups as
instruments of change in churches.
To perform our passive containment test, demonstrated in the video below, Consumer Reports
uses two
instruments — a
smaller one to simulate a child's torso and a larger one to simulate a child's head.
As
instruments improved, astronomers detected
smaller wobbles caused by
smaller planets, until in 2004 a team
using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.
I grabbed three
small plastic tubes from the freezer, picked up a pipette — a hand - held
instrument,
used in labs to measure out liquids — from my DIY kit, and started adding the CRISPR ingredients to tubes of E. coli.
Examining a
small, high - quality crystal grown at Tulane University, the team was able to determine the magnetic structure of Sr1 - yMn1 - zSb2,
using neutrons at the Four - Circle Diffractometer
instrument at the High Flux Isotope Reactor.
Those limited resources mean that JunoCam's scientists rely on a
small army of volunteer «citizen scientists»
using backyard telescopes to flag transient features in the Jovian atmosphere as «points of interest» for the
instrument to observe.
His work on the design of miniature optical elements, «
small lightweight
instruments to be
used for remote microscopy inside human beings,» became the basis for the microscope attachment that makes CMaRS useful in the field.
Since medieval times, players of double - reed
instruments in the oboe, bassoon, shawm, dolcian, and chanter family have
used a
small, thin, usually arrow - shaped or semicircular piece of metal, now usually plastic or wood, to help scrape and shape the cane
used to construct the reed.
Some caves, like Actun Tunichil Muknal, or «Cave of the Crystal Sepulchre,» contain human or animal remains, as well as ceramic pots, musical
instruments, jewelry,
small sculptures and stingray spines, which were
used for bloodletting.
The extremely
small size of the spectrometer, 30 x 1.5 x 1.5 millimeters, means that measurements can be taken
using an
instrument the size of a matchbox.
Amanda Hahn and colleagues at St Andrew's University in Fife, UK,
used a heat - sensitive camera to map
small changes of temperature in the faces of young heterosexual women while an experimenter touched them with an
instrument they were told was measuring skin colour (it wasn't).
So it is no
small feat to create an inexpensive fluorescent microscope, an
instrument often
used by medical researchers.
In 1999, the kidney transplant program began
using a new, less invasive technique for living kidney donation,
using endoscopic
instruments through very
small incisions.
Three
instruments are
used to detect fine dust and ultrafine dust, i.e. the
smallest atmospheric particles.
My colleagues and I were
using the Echellette Spectrograph and Imager (ESI)
instrument, which looks at faint objects in the visible wavelengths, to study star clusters and
small galaxies.
You will notice that lead, arsenic and mercury were present in such
small quantities that they couldn't be measured by the
instruments being
used.
Finally, a
small photo gallery consists of six images plus captions of
instruments used on the score and four shots of postproduction crew from editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
«It1s a psychological drama, so I
used a
small string orchestra as a percussion
instrument.
In this sense, the tone has been widely
used for the recognition of different
instruments as well as the recognition of multidimensional scaling techniques which are determined by
small variations along three dimensions which are called: attack time, spectral centroid, and spectral flux.
Instead, most research into these topics has been conducted with
small samples, non-representative samples (e.g., Kane & Staiger, 2012) or by research projects that
use diverse
instruments, meaning that it is difficult to ascertain what, if any, progress has been made toward the three goals.
For
use in
small or large group contexts, the
instruments could help guide discussion at team meetings, staff meetings, workshops, conferences and the like.
My only criticism is that
using the
instrument cluster LCD screen proved a bit tricky, owing to the
small buttons on the steering wheel.
Its
instrument cluster has real
instruments (with only one
small LCD screen that doesn't do a whole lot), its center stack
uses actual buttons, and its navigation graphics look like they're from the aftermarket.
Nestled between the tachometer and the speedometer, the A8's Nvidia - powered
instrument display looks more like the Tesla Model S's all - digital
instrument cluster, rather than the
small, 2 - or 3 - inch rectangular displays we've gotten
used to in cars.
The interior was kept uncluttered by hiding the HVAC and stereo controls behind a panel and the exterior was kept sleek by
using rear view cameras fitted behind the front wheels to replace the door mirrors, with
small monitors each site of the
instrument panel.
There is also a head - up display unit, which
uses a
small glass panel, behind the
instrument binnacle, at the press of a button.
What I dislike mainly is the MPG is a little low compared to what I'm
used to, but the biggest feature for me would probably be that I'm able to fit my musical
instruments and bring them with me where I need to go as I am learning to play the bass, which isn't exactly a
small item.
On the
instrument cluster, Mercedes - Benz replaced the tachometer with a power
use gauge, and included detailed range and electricity
use information on a
small monochrome display.
Because cats» arteries are so
small, special
instruments are
used to measure their blood pressure, most commonly one based on the Doppler principle.
Cystoscopy A less invasive method involves
using a cystoscope, a long skinny
instrument that remove stones from the bladder
using a
small basket - like retrieval accessory.
We need to cut the gum tissue, bur a
small amount of bone, and patiently
use special
instruments to maneuver the tooth out of socket.
Gastropexies can also be performed laparoscopically (
using instruments and a camera inserted through
small incisions in the body wall) or endoscopically (
using a camera and
instruments inserted down the esophagus and into the stomach).
Arthroscopy is a minimally invasive procedure that
uses very
small portals through which a camera and specialized
instruments can be passed to best accomplishes this task.
In this procedure, a local anesthetic is injected into selected areas of skin and an
instrument called a «punch biopsy» (which resembles a tiny cookie cutter) is
used to remove
small plugs of skin.
The duo presented Driscoll's new «Speaking in Tongues,» which employs a group of unusual
instruments that
use sound above our hearing to translate
small physical movements into audible sounds.
To confidently detect
small climate shifts requires
instrument accuracy and stability better than is generally required for weather research and most other scientific
uses.
Prior to 1979 when satellites began to measure lower troposphere temperature all over the globe we had no measure of global average temperature (GAT) only guesstimates based on fewer and fewer measurements
using instruments not designed to measure decadal trends so
small as a few milliKelvins per decade.
The authors identify four broad investment themes that have potential to scale up finance for sustainable energy, both in OECD and emerging markets: (1) green bonds market development, (2) structures that
use development finance institutions» de-risking
instruments to mobilize private capital, (3) insurance products that focus on removing specific risks and (4) aggregation structures that focus on bundling and pooling approaches for
small - scale opportunities.
And BTW Dr. Spencer also says «I would remind folks that the NASA AIRS
instrument on the Aqua satellite has actually measured the
small decrease in IR emission in the infrared bands affected by CO2 absorption, which they
use to «retrieve» CO2 concentration from the data.
The temporal overlap of the NOAA - 17 and -18
instruments is
used to introduce a
small additive adjustment to the channel - 2 calibration of the latter resulting in a consistent record with increased data density.
Why is it important that multi-century old data, collected by hand
using data handling procedures that in general would earn a sophomore physics student a D -, at best,
using instruments wholly unsuited to the task, be massaged, corrected, infilled, kriged, zombied, and otherwise tortured beyond recognition in order to tease out «anomalies» of
small fractions of a degree / decade, if NOT for the `........
Their
small size adds to the general feeling of being more like a toy or a novelty than a writing
instrument you would
use every day, even though the Preppy is definitely comfortable enough to
use every day.
One is that you're frustrated by the challenge of creating and editing complex documents on a general -
use touchscreen tablet — you can't
use an
instrument more precise than your fingertip to manipulate things on the screen, and the screen may be too
small.