Being able to tweak the ratio of calcium to phosphate alters not only the strength of the NanOss, but also the rate at which it is absorbed and the ease with which it combines with collagen, a protein that is the other main ingredient of bone.
Banco di Sicilia entered the business only in the late 1990s when it absorbed Sicilcassa, the island's savings bank, and its ten pawn branches.
Jiangjin prospered when it was absorbed into the central part of Chongqing in 2006 as part of a government initiative to integrate outlying areas into the core city through transportation infrastructure.
They came up with a promising candidate, tweaked it so it would be absorbed in the blood as a pill and then performed the key experiment testing it in mice to see if it would shrink tumors.
Illuminated manuscripts provided the ideal portable art form for a peripatetic court that moved regularly from its base in Dijon up through the Low Countries it had absorbed by marriage and conquest in the late 14th century.
The energy that comes into it from the sun is absorbed by air molecules and reradiated to space during the normal ups and downs in solar energy that occur over a roughly 11-year time span.
"He recognized immediately the threat, yelled 'grenade' and due to the fact that two other SEAL snipers, our brothers, could not possibly escape the blast, he chose to smother it with his body, absorbed the impact and lost his life in the process, " said Lt.
Morganza Spillway , it's just being so sucked up and absorbed so fast by the earth that it's not flowing as fast as we should, which is a good thing.
It is a fragile chemical and must be absorbed by the intestine, but stomach acid would normally destroy it.
Invented by scientists in Schering-Plough's laboratories, it prevents cholesterol from being absorbed in the digestive system.
When a saline implant ruptures, it deflates and the saline is absorbed by the body.
Everything else is doing damage, because it's actually being absorbed by the material.
London Marathon chief executive Nick Bitel insists that the costs of ensuring athletes made it to the startline could be absorbed by organisers.
Solar energy can, of course, be gathered on Earth, but only about half of the sun's radiation ever makes it to the Earth's surface--the rest is either absorbed by the atmosphere or reflected back by clouds.
Small enough that it should be absorbed by other passengers, the aluminum in the aircraft, etc.
That could perhaps be because the turkey and the mashed potatoes and the gravy and the cranberry jam with the Chinese broccoli absorbed it all.
In theory biofuels produce low net emissions of carbon dioxide, since burning them merely recycles atmospheric carbon absorbed by the plant as it was growing.
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Now the car industry is so absorbed by General Motors' struggle with the United Auto Workers that it may have missed another landmark of sorts: the first serious hint that retailers might sell private-label cars.
And although it may seem unimaginable that Hollywood could ever go the way of Detroit, whose greedy car workers and self-absorbed bosses were nearly the death of the American car industry, it is worth remembering how unimaginable it once was that Detroit could go the way of Detroit.
These options have now been ruled out for Thames Valley but, in future, mergers and takeovers should not be regarded as the last resort: it may well be the best and quickest solution for an ailing university to be absorbed by another with successful courses, high standards, good management and a strong image.
It prevents cholesterol ingested in the diet from being absorbed into the body.
The first is to make sure that most of the sunlight which falls on it is absorbed, rather than being reflected.
Its arch-rival Boeing now dominates the market: two years ago it absorbed McDonnell Douglas, which allows it to exploit common technology in military and civil applications.
Dry water could make that a lot easier because by dividing it into little pieces, the methane can be absorbed much more quickly, in minutes as opposed to days.
If they have gained mass it could be because the platinum based ingots have absorbed mercury from the atmosphere or hydrogen from the solvents used to clean the ingots.
And if the mortgage servicing industry has not fully dealt with those bad loans, it also means the housing market has not fully absorbed the impact of those bad loans.
The Catholic Church has always absorbed such influences to some degree, which is how it has transplanted itself into so many cultural contexts over the past two millennia.
While the caesium is hard for plants and animals to take up when it is tightly bound to the soil, once in solution (dissolved in water) it can be more readily absorbed.
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