The major disadvantage of cement-retained implant-supported fixed partial dentures (FPDs) is difficulty in retrievability. The retentive strengths of the provisional luting agents usually employed in these cases are therefore an important consideration. This study evaluated the cement failure loads of 4 provisional luting agents used for the cementation of FPDs supported by 2 implants or 4 impl...

This search aim to study the feasibility of hydro-desulfurization (HDS) gas oil in fixed bed reactor by using economic support catalyst alumina meta kaolin (AMK) under various operating condition, i.e. Temp. (240−320 ◦C), Press. (3–12 bar), WHSV (2–6 h−1) at H2/HC ratio (50 vol./vol.). The was prepared from Iraq and characterization scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray an...

One of the most popular approaches to parameter adaptation in hidden Markov model (HMM) based systems is the maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) technique. In our previous work, we proposed factored MLLR (FMLLR) where an MLLR parameter is defined as a function of a control parameter vector. We presented a method to train the FMLLR parameters based on a general framework of the expectati...

Domain-wall free energy sigmaF, entropy sigmaS, and the correlation function C(temp) of sigmaF are measured independently in the four-dimensional +/-J Edwards-Anderson (EA) Ising spin glass. The stiffness exponent theta, the fractal dimension of domain walls d(s), and the chaos exponent zeta are extracted from the finite-size scaling analysis of sigmaF, sigmaS, and C(temp), respectively, well i...

*FINDINGS fcws foth ngas mgas lgas dim cflt lcab ncrn scrn ocrn grnd temp egas *CLASSES wait open gas rflt clen gbat nstr cws *RULES if lgas then flod(0.80) if between(temp, 0, 50) AND nofm(1, scrn , ocrn) then chok(0.60) if egas then empt(0.90) if cflt then filt(1.00) if lcab then cab(0.90) if scrn AND dim then batd(0.70) if ncrn AND dim then batd(0.90) if ncrn AND not dim then strt(0.70) if g...

Every year Soldiers become lost or injured. This project gives the ability to track where Soldiers are at any given moment. Search and rescue efforts become minimized in time and resources. Additionally, with alert feature Soldiers will be able to communicate their distress with GPS coordinate information. Location tracking has been of great importance since World War II, when military planners...

The deterioration of water quality, especially organic pollution in Tai Lake and the Qiantang River, have recently received attention in China. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the formation of halonitromethanes (HNMs) using multiple regression models for chlorination and chloramination and to identify the key factors that influence the formation of HNMs in Tai Lake and the Qiantan...