Human skull is shown to exhibit numerous sexually dimorphic traits. Estimation of sex is a challenging task especially when a part of skull is brought for medicolegal investigation. The present research was planned to evaluate the sexing potential of the dimensions of foramen magnum in forensic identification by craniometric analysis. Length and breadth of the foramen magnum was measured using ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to evaluate the echocardiographic follow-up of patent foramen ovale, which is considered a potential etiological factor in various diseases, and to determine the factors affecting spontaneous closure. METHODS Between January 2000 and June 2012, records of 918 patients with patent foramen ovale were retrospectively reviewed. Patency of less than 3 mm...

Background and aim: The mental-incisive nerve block can be used where lower premolars and anterior teeth require treatment. The aim of this study is to compare tow methods ofmental-incisive nerve block for extraction of the lower premolars and anterior teeth. Methods and materials: This randomized double blind split-mouth clinical trial study was performed on patients requiring extraction of lo...

Because of the top quark’s very large mass, about 175 GeV, it now provides the best window into flavor physics. Thus, pair–production of top quarks at the Tevatron Collider is the most incisive probe of this physics until the Large Hadron Collider turns on in the next century. In this talk I discuss how moments of the tt invariant mass distribution can be used to distinguish among standard and ...

The formation of large scale structure in the universe is a central element of astrophysics. Apart from the structure itself, it also offers a incisive tool for probing cosmology and particle physics. Since structure formation is a competition between expansion and gravity, the growth as a function of redshift is intimately tied to the expansion of the universe. Studies of matter density fluctu...

What’s new in behavior genetics? With widespread acceptance that nearly all behavioral variation reflects some genetic influence, current studies are investigating developmental changes in the nature and magnitude of genetic and environmental effects, the extent to which different behaviors are influenced by common genes, and different forms of gene-environment correlation and interaction. New ...

Terrorism is the defining issue of the post 9/11 world. It is also one of the most confusing and contested words in the political lexicon. The route to understanding, says Fred Halliday, is through making connections: between past and present, state and insurgent violence, nationalist and religious movements. The result is an incisive, rewarding survey of terrorism’s history, curre nt impact, a...

Distance-redshift data can impose strong constraints on dark energy models even when the equation of state is oscillatory. Despite the double integral dependence of the distance on the equation of state, precision measurement of the distance-redshift relation for z = 0− 2 is more incisive than the linear growth factor, CMB last scattering surface distance, and the age of the universe in disting...

The decay B → Kπ, dominated by a b → s penguin amplitude, holds the potential for exhibiting new physics in this amplitude. In the pure QCD penguin limit one expects CKπ = 0 and SKπ = sin 2β for the coefficients of cos∆mt and sin∆mt in the time-dependent CP asymmetry. Small nonpenguin contributions lead to corrections to these expressions which are calculated in terms of isospin-related B → Kπ ...

SIR ZACHARY COPE'S book is written and presented in a style no longer acceptable. Some of the content is repetitive, some imaginative and some irrelevant. Nevertheless, the author describes clinical facts and observations of value which we are in danger of overlooking today. If the content of the book was re-styled to make it more incisive then, in a smaller contribution, we would have a more r...