Dental cementum is a vital tissue which demonstrates continuous apposition throughout the life of the tooth. This study was conduct on 101 impacted and 106 erupted mandibular third molar teeth extracted from healthy patients, aged 18-30 years. The buccolingual ground sections were prepared. The distance between the edges of enamel and cementum were measured with micrometer attached with light m...

A broken triangle is a pattern of (in)compatibilities between assignments in a binary CSP (constraint satisfaction problem). In the absence of certain broken triangles, satisfiability-preserving domain reductions are possible via merging of domain values. We investigate the possibility of maximising the number of domain reduction operations by the choice of the order in which they are applied, ...

Although it is common to describe experiences of social rejection or loss with words typically reserved for physical pain, the idea that these social experiences might actually be experienced as painful seems more far-fetched. However, accumulating evidence demonstrates that social pain—the painful feelings following social rejection or loss—may rely on pain-related neural circuitry. Here, I su...

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A binary CSP instance satisfying the broken-triangle property (BTP) can be solved in polynomial time. Unfortunately, in practice, few instances satisfy the BTP. We show that a local version of the BTP allows the merging of domain values in arbitrary instances of binary CSP, thus providing a novel polynomial-time reduction operation. Extensive experimental trials on benchmark instances demonstra...

Introduction A significant portion of patients treated in emergency departments have nasal fracture. It is important that the otolaryngologist know how to treat such damage. Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of nasal fracture reduction under local anesthesia and tolerance to the procedure. Methods Twenty-four patients treated in the emergency department with closed reduction under local ...

We consider contributions of R-parity conserving softly broken supersymmetry (SUSY) to neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay via the (B-L)-violating sneutrino mass term. The latter is a generic ingredient of any weak-scale SUSY model with a Majorana neutrino mass. The new R-parity conserving SUSY contributions to 0νββ are realized at the level of box diagrams. We derive the effective Lagrangian...

According to amoebic self theory, the boundary defining the self encompasses 3 levels of self-representation--bodily, social, and spatial-symbolic. Study 1 related a newly developed measure of individual differences in sensitivity to boundary threat across these 3 domains to values and disgust sensitivity. Four subsequent studies focused on spatial-symbolic threat sensitivity and related it to ...

In November 2003, after receiving a discrimination complaint from a county employee, the Los Angeles County Office of Affirmative Action Compliance sent a memo to all its equipment vendors asking that they stop using the words “master” and “slave” in reference to computer hardware and other equipment.{1} The memo read in part: “Based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles Coun...