The object of this chapter was to provide an overview including relevant research progress some genetic disorders with periodontal manifestations. A number increase patient susceptibility disease, the latter exhibit rather rapid and aggressive presentations. Periodontal perhaps could be first detectable sign undiagnosed disorder. It is therefore important for dental practitioners familiar their...

a case of palmoplantar hyperkeratosis with periodontosis and a history of recurrent severe pyoderma, pneumonia and multiple liver abscesses is described in a 12 year old girl. the patient demonstrated neutrophil dysfunction characterized by decreased random migration and chemotaxis and defective bactericidal activity. the exact immunopathological mechanism for susceptibility to infections in pa...

The infrared amide bands are sensitive to the conformation of the polypeptide backbone of proteins. Since the backbone of proteins folds in complex spatial arrangements, the amide bands of these proteins result from the superimposition of vibration modes corresponding to the different types of structural motifs (alpha helices, beta sheets, etc.). Initially, band deconvolution techniques were ap...

There are 108 beam position monitors in the PLS for the orbit measurement and closed orbit correction. As the BPM pickup electrodes are assembled directly on the 10m-long vacuum chamber, calibration of the electrical center of BPMs have been done with the external rf transmission-reflection method. Since the closed orbit distortion is still larger than 500 mm rms, we are developing the beam-bas...

R. T. Wood, C. E. Antonescu (NRC), S. A. Arndt (NRC), C. L. Britton, S. A. Brown-VanHoozer, J. A. Calvert (NRC), B. Damiano, J. R. Easter (PLS), E. B. Freer, J. E. Hardy, L. M. Hively, D. E. Holcomb, J. M. Jansen, R. A. Kisner, K. Korsah, D. W. Miller (OSU), M. R. Moore, J. A. Mullens, J. S. Neal, V. A. Protopopescu, R. A. Shaffer (NRC), J. C. Schryver, C. M. Smith, R. W. Tucker, R. E. Uhrig, B...

The estimation of crop chlorophyll content could provide technical support for precision agriculture. Canopy spectral reflectance was simulated for different chlorophyll levels using radiative transfer models. Then with multiperiod measured hyperspectral data and corresponding chlorophyll content, after extracting six wavelet energy coefficients from the responded bands, an evaluation of soybea...

In an n-back face recognition task where subjects responded to repeated stimuli, ERPs were recorded to upright, inverted, and contrast-reversed faces. The effects of inversion and contrast reversal on face encoding and recognition were investigated using the multivariate spatiotemporal partial least squares (PLS) analysis. The configural manipulations affected early processing (100-200 ms) at p...

Children's school journeys have changed vastly during recent decades: More children are being driven to school in private cars instead of walking and cycling, with many who are entitled to a free school bus service still being driven. Earlier research into travel mode choice has often investigated how urban form impacts upon mode choice regarding school journeys-in particular how urban form hin...