1Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, M R Ambedkar Dental College and Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; 2Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodonics, Bhabha College of Dental Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; 3Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodonics, R K D F Dental College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; 4Reader, De...

For the analysis of square contingency tables with the same row and column ordinal classifications, this article proposes new models which indicate the structures of symmetry with respect to the anti-diagonal of the table. Also, this article gives a simple decomposition in 3 × 3 contingency table using the proposed models. The proposed models are applied to grip strength data.

This paper presents a three steps methodology for predicting the failure shear effort in concrete beams. In the first step, dimensional analysis is applied to obtain several sets of dimensionless variables; in the second step, functional and neural networks are used to estimate a relation between those variables and, in the last step, the failure shear effort is recovered from the relations lea...

Decision making and causal reasoning are clearly relevant for one another, but have often been studied in relative isolation. In this paper, we report the results of two experiments that investigated whether people can make appropriate decisions using causal beliefs learned from sequences of cases. We found that people behave close-to-optimally for various causal and payoff structures, even tho...

OBJECTIVES Poor sleep quality and short sleep duration are associated with an increased risk for muscle mass reduction. Thus, they may also influence muscle strength. This study aimed to investigate the association between sleep quality and duration, and muscle strength in university students. METHODS This cross-sectional study comprised 10,125 university students aged 16-30 years. Handgrip s...

The prolongation of the average life span of women has been associated with the rapidly aging society. However, serious problem have arisen as a result, such as an increase in the number of bed-ridden elderly patients with osteoporosis-associated femoral neck fracture. As preventive measures against osteoporosis for middle-aged to elderly women, 10,000 steps per day and intense exercise have be...

AIM Obesity is a well-established risk factor for developing Type 2 diabetes. Evidence suggests that sarcopenia, the age-related decline in muscle mass and strength, may exacerbate diabetes risk in obese individuals. The aim of this study was to determine the combined effect of obesity and low muscle strength, dynapenia, on the risk of incident Type 2 diabetes in older adults. METHODS Partici...

The end-over-end rotational motion of nematic-phase molecules was examined by an isobaric-isothermal molecular-dynamics simulation for a Gay-Berne mesogenic system. The result was compared with the MeierSaupe theory and the previous result obtained from a molecular-dynamics simulation for the same Gay-Berne model at constant volume in order to examine the influence of volume fluctuation on nema...

response modification factor (r-factor) is one of the seismic design parameters to consider nonlinear performance of building structures during strong earthquake. relying on this, many seismic design codes led to reduce earthquake loads imposed to the structure. the present paper tries to evaluate the r-factors of conventional concentric braced frames (cbfs) and special moment frames (mrfs) in ...

Experiments show that the strength of nanostructures can be very high and that strength statistics are dominated by surface flaws. To understand the dependence of strength on the surface morphology, a series of fracture mechanics based Monte-Carlo simulations were performed. The surfaces of previously tested Si nanobeams were measured, statistically characterized and equivalent surfaces were ge...