During oral rehabilitation of an edentulous patient with an implant-supported prosthesis, mandibular flexure must be considered an important biomechanical factor when planning the metal framework design, especially if implants are installed posterior to the interforaminal region. When an edentulous mandible is restored with a fixed implant-supported prosthesis connected by a fixed full-arch fra...

OBJECTIVES Three strength tests (compressive, three point flexure and biaxial) were performed on three glass ionomer (GI) restoratives to assess the most appropriate methodology in terms of validity and reliability. The influence of mixing induced variability on the data sets generated were eliminated by using encapsulated GIs. METHODS Specimen groups of 40 (eight batches of n=5) cylinders (6...

The present study investigated the validity of mandibular ramus flexure in sex differentiation among young Jordanian adults using Orthopantomographic images in a double blind study. A normative sample comprised of 419 images was selected, of which 126 belonged to male patients and 293 images to females. The exclusion criteria used in the selection involved excluding images that showed marked lo...

Article history: Received 12 January 2016 Received in revised form 26 May 2016 Accepted 27 May 2016 Available online 31 May 2016 A fundamental scientific question is, what controls the Earth's topography? Although the theoretical principles of isostasy, flexure, and dynamic topography arewidely discussed, the parameters needed to apply these principles are frequently not available. Isostatic fa...

Series elastic actuators (SEAs) and variable (VSAs) provide shock resistance, energy storage, stable force control. However, they usually require extra springs, mechanical parts, transmissions, increasing size, weight, number of moving reducing the efficiency. In particular, this complexity is one significant challenges in design wearable scalable feedback devices. article, flexure stiffness (F...

The minimally invasive approach for segmental resections of the transverse colon and splenic flexure is widely accepted. However, these colorectal remain demanding in terms lymph node dissections, vascular dissection intracorporeal anastomosis. robotic seems to offer some advantage harvested nodes Herein we present our surgical technique flexure.

The intestines and mesentery of the nutria (Myocastor coypus) have not been fully described. In the present study 30 adult nutrias were studied using gross dissection. The small intestine was divided into the duodenum, jejunum and ileum as usual. The duodenum started at the pylorus with a cranial portion, which dilated forming a duodenal ampulla. The ileum was located within the concavity of th...

Wrinkles are an extremely important contribution for enhancing the realism of human figure models. In this paper, we present an approach to generate static and dynamic wrinkles on human skin. For the static model, we consider micro and macro structures of the skin surface geometry. For the wrinkle dynamics, an approach using a biomechanical skin model is employed. The tile texture patterns in t...