background: there have been numerous researches on ozone application in dentistry; yet the data regarding its whitening effect is very limited. the present study compares the bleaching effect of ozone with offi ce bleaching. materials and methods: in this experimental study, 15 maxillary premolar teeth were selected and sectioned mesio-distally and bucco-lingually. the sections were then placed...

this study evaluated the use of the solar dryer at esfahan agricultural research center for drying prunes. a factorial experiment was carried using a randomized complete block design with four replications. the four methods used to accelerate prune drying were: control group (no treatment), mechanical perforation at one week of drying, blanching, submersion in australian cold dip method. the dr...

The feasibility of applying time-domain, terahertz spectroscopic imaging to the evaluation of underdrawings and paint layers embedded within wall paintings is demonstrated. Metallic and dielectric paint patterns and a graphite drawing are resolved through both paint and plaster overlayers using a pulsed-terahertz reflectometer and imaging system. We calculated the bulk refractive indices of fou...

Pistachio powder is a product used today in confectionery, ice cream, pistachio paste and other foods. Considering the higher rate of spoilage and oxidation in pistachio powder, developing methods to increase the shelf-life of this product is therefore important. In this study the effect of  freezing and vacuum packaging on the quality characteristics of pistachio powder during storage was inve...

The self-focusing characteristic of 355 nm, 3.3 ns pulses propagating through phosphate glass samples is found to significantly change during repeated exposure. The results indicate this change is related to the formation of color centers in the material as well as the generation of a transient defect population during exposure to the laser pulses. A model is used to fit the experimental data a...

A strong edge-coloring of a graph is a function that assigns to each edge a color such that two edges within distance two apart receive different colors. The strong chromatic index of a graph is the minimum number of colors used in a strong edge-coloring. This paper determines strong chromatic indices of cacti, which are graphs whose blocks are cycles or complete graphs of two vertices. The pro...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the relationship between different echocardiographic indices and pulmonary capillary wedge pressures (PCWP) in normal volunteers. BACKGROUND Indices based on tissue Doppler (TDE) and color M-mode (CMM) echocardiography have been proposed to reflect left (LV) ventricular filling pressures. These include the ratio of early diastolic transmitral velocity (E) to ...

Newly obtained photoelectric V magnitudes for three galaxies in Shakhbazian I, when combined with the virial analysis of Robinson and Wampler, show that the cluster mass-to-luminosity ratio is WL ~ 4. The first brightest galaxy in the cluster (an elliptical) has (U—B) and (B—V) color indices which are consistent with those of normal ellipticals in the Virgo and Coma clusters, and it is suggeste...