Two waves of data from a sample of 89 poor and near-poor single black mothers and their preschool children were used to study the influences of parenting stress, physical discipline practices, and nonresident fathers' relations with their children on behavior problems in kindergarten. The results indicate that higher levels of parent stress, more frequent spanking, and less frequent father-chil...

objective: in all ceramic fixed partial dentures the connector area is a common fracture location. the survival time of three-unit fixed partial dentures may be improved by altering the connector design in regions of maximum tension. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of buccolingual increase of the connector width on the stress distribution in posterior fixed partial denture...

The level-set method of Sussman et al. [J. Comput. Phys. 148 (1999) 81] is extended such that flows with multiple moving contact lines can be simulated, accounting for inertia, a relation between contact-line speed and contact angle, slip and contact-line hysteresis. The convergence properties of the method are investigated, with particular attention on the resolution of the contact-line stress...

Amplitude modulation atomic force microscopy (AM-AFM) is one of the most popular AFM modes because of the reduced tip-sample interaction, compared to contact mode AFM, and the ability to acquire high-resolution images while interrogating the sample's material composition through phase imaging. Despite the reduced tip-sample interaction, tip and sample wear can occur through gradual atomic scale...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of occlusal contact area for loading on the cuspal defection and stress distribution in a first premolar restored with a high elastic modulus restorative material. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Rhinoceros 4.0 software was used for modeling the three-dimensional geometries of dental and periodontal structures and the inlay restoration....

In this paper, a simple cracked beam under vertical pressure is considered. Stress intensity factor, normal, and shear stresses (at the tip of the crack) are calculated with finite element software. Results are compared when there is contact between crack surfaces with different direction of pressure, and when there is no contact. Results show that stress intensity factors can be implemented fo...

In this paper we introduce a elastic and hyperelastic model to describe the pressure dependent material stress in joint cartilage. We used the pressure dependent E-modulus E = f(s) to calculate the material stress. E = f(s) is a degree 4 polynomial [1]. The indentor was pressed 0.4 mm into the tissue. The results show that the maximal stress at the contact zone between indentor and cartilage ac...

In protein evolution, due to functional and biophysical constraints, the rates of amino acid substitution differ from site to site. Among the best predictors of site-specific rates are solvent accessibility and packing density. The packing density measure that best correlates with rates is the weighted contact number (WCN), the sum of inverse square distances between a site's C α and the C α of...

Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) is a material commonly used in total hip and knee joint replacements. Numerous studies have assessed the effect of its viscoelastic properties on phenomena such as creep, stress relaxation, and tensile stress. However, these investigations either use the complex 3D geometries of total hip and knee replacements or UHMWPE test objects on their own...

Unusually rapid closure of stressed fractures, observed in the initial stages of loading and at low temperatures, is examined using models for subcritical crack growth and pressure solution. The model for stress corrosion examines tensile stress concentrations induced at the Hertzian contact of propping fracture asperities, and mediates fracture growth according to a kinetic rate law. Conversel...