INTRODUCTION The orthodontic technique favored by a clinician frequently determines how a deep curve of Spee (COS) is leveled. The primary purpose of this investigation was to confirm radiographically the long-term effectiveness of a continuous archwire technique--the Alexander discipline--in leveling the COS in patients with Class II Division 1 deep-bite malocclusions treated without extractio...

OBJECTIVE To develop and test the reliability of a case-leveling framework for assigning level of difficulty of the pharmacist's task for initial medication assessments conducted by pharmacists integrated into family physician offices. DESIGN Descriptive study. SETTING Seven family practice sites in Ontario from June 2004 to July 2006. PATIENTS Patients referred by their family physician ...

many new technologies have been employed to improve welfare conditions and to provide an optimum utilization of the existing resources in agriculture sector. laser leveling technology is one of the most progressed in maintenance of soil and water resources which itself has an important role in sustainable development. the purpose of this study was to realize the specifications of adopters vs. n...

Manna and Chaudhuri (Eur. J. Oper. Res. 171(2):557–566, 2006) presented a production-inventory system for deteriorating items with demand rate being a linearly ramp type function of time and production rate being proportional to the demand rate. The two models without shortages and with shortages were discussed. Both models were studied assuming that the time point at which the demand is stabil...

Hard metals are an important material due to their specific properties, such as high degree of hardness and resistance to abrasive wear, and they are in wide use today. There are indications that hard metal aerosols can endanger human health. Discussions are ongoing as to how to categorize hard metals as hazardous as a result. This categorization will require deciding in particular how to deter...

— This paper investigates intermediate input effects and labor pooling in the context of urban informality, examining the handicraft industry of Nairobi, Kenya. The paper tests if conditions found in informality interfere with transition pathways in production clusters. 102 semi-structured interviews were conducted with industry participants, including 69 production firms. Findings confirm the ...

In the next Generation Networks like Mobile WiMAX, it is highly essential to create a market mechanism that would allow the customer to communicate with Network and negotiate a contract based on some QoS parameters like blocking probability, delay, arrival rate, spectral efficiency, resource allocation and price. However, the mechanisms, rather than technical-oriented scheme, that involve the u...

We recently proposed Start-Gap as a simple low-overhead mechanism to do near-perfect wear leveling in phase change memories. This method was extended to handle a malicious attack, Repeat Address Attack (RAA), and provided a lifetime of several months under such an attack. A recent study has argued that an attacker can use Birthday Paradox Attack (BPA) to cause much earlier failure of the Start-...