Background. Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) is a material that has recently gained popularity in the application of the vital pulp therapy. Along with the increasing use of MTA to this end, the permanent restoration material to be placed on MTA has become a significant issue. The aim of this in vitro study was to investigate the bond strength of the novel low-shrinkage silorane-based composite...

[1] The patterns and drivers of phytoplankton primary productivity in the Santa Barbara Channel (SBC) were examined on 16 cruises conducted 3 times each year from 2001 to 2006. Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis revealed 3 modes of variability that explained 89% of the variance in the productivity data set. The first mode, strongest during spring, describes seasonal productivity chang...

AIM pH is the direct indicator of the body reaction following the activities performed. Establishing precise correlations between pH and blood biochemical parameters might support the balancing of values during periods of marked physical activity. METHOD We conducted a case study in a group of elite rowers. Twelve athletes were included in the study. Monitoring was carried out by collecting b...

BACKGROUND People suffering from neurogenic bowel dysfunction (NBD) and an ineffective bowel regimen often suffer from fecal incontinence (FI) and related symptoms, which have a huge impact on their quality of life. In these situations, transanal irrigation (TAI) has been shown to reduce these symptoms and improve quality of life. AIM To investigate the long-term cost-effectiveness of initiat...

We consider a cooperative relaying system which consists of a number of source terminals, one shared relay, and a common destination with multi-packet reception (MPR) capability. In this paper, we study the stability and delay analysis for two cooperative relaying schemes; the sensing-based cooperative (SBC) scheme and the decision-based cooperative (DBC) scheme. In the SBC scheme, the relay se...

ATX-s10-Na(II) is a novel second-generation photo-sensitizer for photodynamic therapy (PDT). PDT using ATX-s10 and diode laser (670 nm) induces an apoptotic response, inflammatory reaction, immune reaction and damage to the microvasculature. In particular, the vascular shut-down effect plays an important role in the anti-tumor activity of ATX-s10-PDT. It has been reported that PDT induces hypox...

[1] Time-series datasets of surface-water biogenic silica (bSiO2) and deep-water bSiO2 export in the Santa Barbara Channel (SBC) allow for elucidation of the important scales of spatial and temporal variability and an evaluation of potential controlling mechanisms. Changes in local upwelling strength is the most important factor controlling seasonal variations for the surface bSiO2 dataset and ...

Spectral-beam-combining (SBC) systems utilizing multiple volume Bragg gratings must be carefully analyzed to maximize channel density and efficiency, and thus output radiance. This analysis grows increasingly difficult as the number of channels in the system increases, and heuristic optimization techniques are useful tools for exploring the limits of these systems. We explore three classes of m...

Recently we have witnessed a growing interest in the development of the subband/wavelet coding (SBC) technology, partly due to the superior scalability of SBC. Scalable coding provides great synergy with the universal media access applications, where media content is delivered to client devices of diverse types through heterogeneous channels. In this respect, SBC system provides flexibility in ...

This article seeks to establish connections between histories of education and media by examining long-term institutional structural factors. In order a role for broadcasting in schools, the BBC formed relationship with educational world through advisory machinery called Central Council School Broadcasting (CCSB), later reconstituted as (SBC). key period school broadcasting’s development, 1935 ...