The present study investigated the validity of mandibular ramus flexure in sex differentiation among young Jordanian adults using Orthopantomographic images in a double blind study. A normative sample comprised of 419 images was selected, of which 126 belonged to male patients and 293 images to females. The exclusion criteria used in the selection involved excluding images that showed marked lo...

Article history: Received 12 January 2016 Received in revised form 26 May 2016 Accepted 27 May 2016 Available online 31 May 2016 A fundamental scientific question is, what controls the Earth's topography? Although the theoretical principles of isostasy, flexure, and dynamic topography arewidely discussed, the parameters needed to apply these principles are frequently not available. Isostatic fa...

Series elastic actuators (SEAs) and variable (VSAs) provide shock resistance, energy storage, stable force control. However, they usually require extra springs, mechanical parts, transmissions, increasing size, weight, number of moving reducing the efficiency. In particular, this complexity is one significant challenges in design wearable scalable feedback devices. article, flexure stiffness (F...

The minimally invasive approach for segmental resections of the transverse colon and splenic flexure is widely accepted. However, these colorectal remain demanding in terms lymph node dissections, vascular dissection intracorporeal anastomosis. robotic seems to offer some advantage harvested nodes Herein we present our surgical technique flexure.

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials have gained popularity in civil, mechanical, aircraft, and chemical engineering domains due to their superior mechanical properties durability. They been used for strength durability enhancements of civil structures a wide range steel subject static (flexure, compression) dynamic (fatigue, impact, seismic) loads strengthened retrofitted. The en...

block-flexure is the most common mode of toppling failure in natural and excavated rock slopes. in such failure, some rock blocks break due to tensile stresses and some overturn under their own weights and then all of them topple together. in this paper, first, a brief review of previous studies on toppling failures is presented. then, the physical and mechanical properties of experimental mode...