objective: diagnosis of vertical root fractures (vrfs) is critical in endodontics which most of the times occurs in endodontically treated teeth with root canal fillings such as gutta percha. despite cone beam computed tomography (cbct) has significantly enhanced image quality compared to digital radiography (dr) which aid the diagnosis, artifacts has remained as a problem in vrf detection . th...

BACKGROUND This study investigated procedural errors made during root canal preparation with nickel-titanium (NiTi) instruments, using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging method. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 100 human mandibular molars were divided into five groups (n = 20) according to the NiTi system used for root canal preparation: Group 1 - BioRaCe, Group 2 - K3, Group 3 - Pr...

The net analyte signal standard addition method was used for simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of sertraline and fluoxetine in pharmaceutical preparations. The method combines the advantages of the standard addition method with the net analyte signal concept to enable the extraction of information about an analyte from the spectra of multi-component mixtures. This method uses full s...

PURPOSE To assess the potential use of shortened protocol MRI of lumbar spine in the investigation of degenerative disc disease in Northern Ireland. MATERIALS & METHODS Prospective study of 35 patients having MR imaging of lumbar spine performed during a 12-month period by one consultant radiologist. T1-weighted and T2-weighted sagittal images of lumbar spine were obtained in all cases, as we...

Accurate and early diagnosis of vertical root fractures (VRFs) is imperative to prevent extensive bone loss and unnecessary endodontic and prosthodontic treatments. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of time lapse on the diagnostic accuracy of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) for VRFs in endodontically treated dog's teeth. Forty-eight incisors and premolars of three adult male d...

In modern days, customers expect that Web services work reliably and are available around the clock. A system failure can have a significant negative impact on a company’s reputation and economical success. This makes it necessary to continuously monitor software systems in order to detect problems of arising failures early. Existing anomaly detection approaches are taking up this challenge by ...

Shot-noise-limited Doppler-broadened (Db) noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectrometry (NICE-OHMS) has been realized by implementation of balanced detection. A characterization of the system based on Allan-Werle plots of the absorption coefficient, retrieved by fitting a model function to data, shows that the system has a white noise equivalent absorption per unit leng...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach, called SENATUS, for joint traffic anomaly detection and root-cause analysis. Inspired from the concept of a senate, the key idea of the proposed approach is divided into three stages: election, voting and decision. At the election stage, a small number of senator flows are chosen to represent approximately the total (usually huge) set of traffic flows...

In this paper we present a novel approach for expanding spherical 3D-tensor fields of arbitrary order in terms of a tensor valued local Fourier basis. For an efficient implementation, a two step approach is suggested combined with the use of spherical derivatives. Based on this new transformation we conduct two experiments utilizing the spherical tensor algebra for computing and using rotation ...