We aimed to evaluate the color stability of bulk-fill and conventional composite resin with respect to thickness and storage media. Twenty specimens of a conventional composite resin (6 mm diameter and 2 mm thick) and 40 specimens of the bulk-fill Tetric EvoCeram composite resin at two different thicknesses (6 mm diameter and 2 mm thick or 4 mm thick, n = 20) were prepared. The specimens were s...

Winter and summer pruning are widely applied processes in all fruit trees, including in peach orchard management. This study was conducted to determine the effects of summer prunings (SP), as compared to winter pruning (WP), on shoot length, shoot diameter, trunk cross sectional area (TCSA) increment, fruit yield, fruit quality, and carbohydrate content of two early ripening peach cultivars ("E...

A Fetch&Inc object stores a non-negative integer and supports a single operation, fi, that returns the value of the object and increments it. Such objects are used in many asynchronous shared memory algorithms, such as renaming, mutual exclusion, and barrier synchronization. We present an efficient implementation of a wait-free Fetch&Inc object from registers and load-linked/store-conditional (...

Tree basal area (ba) or diameter at breast height (dbh) are universally used to represent tree secondary growth in individual tree based growth models. However, the long-term implications of using either ba or dbh for predictions are rarely fully assessed. In this analysis, Dba and Ddbh increment equations were fit to identical datasets gathered from six conifer and four hardwood species grown ...

This research was conducted in the growing season at an orchard Faculty of Agricultural Engineering Sciences Summel district Duhok governorate (Kurdistan region- Iraq) (2022) to examine effects basin irrigation, DAP supply, and Max-Gro foliar spray, fish irrigation on vegetative development leaf nutritional content three-year-old plum trees cv.Samarra. The experiment included three factors, fir...

OBJECTIVE Pericardial adipose tissue (PAT), a regional fat depot adjacent to the myocardium, may mediate the complex relation between obesity and cardiac left ventricular (LV) abnormalities. We sought to evaluate the association of PAT with echocardiographic measures of LV abnormalities in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 1,414 African Americans (35% men; ...

BACKGROUND Despite continuous improvements in CT technology, accurate stent lumen delineation remains challenging. PURPOSE The aim was to evaluate the quality of coronary stent lumen delineation with CT using a detector with integrated electronics. METHODS Twelve coronary stents placed in plastic tubes and filled with contrast agent (CT number 250 HU) were imaged with either a 128-section d...