BACKGROUND Hemodynamics play an important role in the development and progression of carotid atherosclerosis, and may be important in the assessment of plaque vulnerability. The aim of this study was to develop a system to assess the hemodynamics of carotid atherosclerotic plaques using subject-specific fluid-structure interaction (FSI) models based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MATERI...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the effect of trenched zirconia bar on the von Mises stress distribution of IPS -Empress II core ceramics. MATERIALS AND METHODS The three-dimensional model including a three-unit bridge from the second premolar to the second molar was designed. The model was reinforced with zirconia bar (ZB), zirconia bar with vertical trench (VZB) and zirconi...

BACKGROUND Finite element simulation has been used in last years for analysing the biomechanical performance of post-core restorations in endodontics, but results of these simulations have been interpreted in most of the works using von Mises stress criterion. However, the validity of this failure criterion for brittle materials, which are present in these restorations, is questionable. The obj...

In certain circumstances inference based on the likelihood function can be hindered by, for example, computational complexity; new applications of directional statistics to bioinformatics problems give many obvious examples. In such cases it is necessary to seek an alternative method of estimation. Two pseudolikelihoods, each based on conditional distributions, are assessed in terms of their ef...

Regularization is necessary to avoid overfitting when the number of data samples is low compared to the number of parameters of the model. In this paper, we introduce a flexible L1 regularization for the multivariate von Mises distribution. We also propose a circular distance that can be used to estimate the Kullback-Leibler divergence between two circular distributions by means of sampling, an...

In this article, a new extension of the one parameter Xgamma distribution has been proposed. Also associated different statistical properties are derived. The unknown proposed is estimated by using classical estimation methods and Bayesian method. Under estimation, we brieflfly describe method moment estimators, maximum likelihood product spacing least squares weighted estimators Cramer-von-Mis...

The Cramér-von Mises criterion is employed to compare whether the marginal distribution functions of a k-dimensional random variable are equal or not. The well-known Donsker invariance principle and the KarhunenLoéve expansion is used in order to derive its asymptotic distribution. Two different resampling plans (one based on permutations and the other one based on the general bootstrap algorit...

Ludwig von Mises argues that public opinion, not the form of government, is the ultimate determinant of policy. The implication is that, holding public opinion constant, democracies and dictatorships will have the same policies—a result I call Mises’ Democracy–Dictatorship Equivalence Theorem. According to Mises, dictators have to comply with public opinion or else they will be overthrown. I ar...

This study aims to compare normality tests in different sample sizes data with normal distribution under kurtosis and skewness coefficients obtained simulatively. To this end, firstly, simulative were produced using the MATLAB program for skewness/kurtosis sizes. The analysis of each type was conducted ten tests; namely, (Kolmogorov Smirnov (KS) Test, KS Stephens Modification, Marsaglia, Lillie...

OBJECTIVE To compare the von Mises stresses of the internal fixation devices among different short segment pedicle screw fixation techniques to treat thoracic 12 vertebral fractures, especially the mono-segment pedicle screw fixation and intermediate unilateral pedicle screw fixation techniques. METHODS Finite element methods were utilised to investigate the biomechanical comparison of the fo...