The purpose of this study was to evaluate the biomechanical and histological behavior of a ceria-stabilized zirconia-alumina nanocomposite (NanoZr) in comparison with that of 3 mol% yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystalline (3Y-TZP) in Sprague Dawley rats. Cylindrical NanoZr and 3Y-TZP implants (diameter 1 mm, length 2 mm) were used. Implant-surface morphology and surface roughness ...

Consider y" (t) + A (t)y (t) + 0, y is a real n-dimensinal vector and A(t) is a real nxn matrix, continuous on some interval. Some positivity properties of solutions and conjugate points of y"(t) + A(t)y (t) = 0 appeared in literature. We prove similar results for focal points