The purpose of this study was to measure the shear bond strength of Gluma/Lumifor (Gluma and Lumifor--Columbus Dental, St. Louis, MO) to the occlusal dentin of primary first and second molars, permanent first and second molars and premolars. The data were examined for differences using a one-way analysis of variance and Duncan's Multiple Range test. The shear bond strength, (kc/cm2, x +/- SEM) ...

Supernumerary teeth may be defined as any teeth or tooth substance in excess of the usual configuration of 20 deciduous and 32 permanent teeth. Gemination is defined as an attempt by a single tooth bud to divide, with a resultant formation of either a large tooth with a bifid crown or two completely divided teeth throughout the crown and root. Geminated supernumerary premolar is a rarity and th...

Most permanent magnet (PM) loss studies consider only eddy current and neglect hysteresis. In this article, the hysteresis behavior of two NdFeB PM grades with different magnetic properties is assessed when applied in a PMSM. Data from vibrating sample magnetometer measurements modeling are used as base. addition to main phase, samples contained phases reduced coercivity. Such may contribute lo...

This paper analyzes job mismatches in Switzerland based on a subjective measure of overqualification. According to job search and job matching theories, overqualification is a transitory problem for the individual worker that results from informational deficits. This problem ceases to exist once access to better information about the labor market allows the worker to move to a job with a better...

LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is a prototype of a system to preserve access to scientific journals published on the Web. It is a majority-voting fault-tolerant system that, unlike normal systems, has far more replicas than would be required just to survive the anticipated failures. We are exploring techniques that exploit the surplus of replicas to permit a much looser form of coordin...

John Sulston, who coordinated the UK side of the international publicly funded efforts to sequence ‘the’ human genome, once said the endeavour was like a moon shot. He may only have referred to the scale and ambition of the project, but one could argue that, in both cases, outdated technology and extraordinary amounts of money were used to hit a highly visible and prestigious target, just to sh...

A square real matrix is sign-nonsingular if it is forced to be nonsingular by its pattern of zero, negative, and positive entries. We give structural characterizations of sign-nonsingular matrices, digraphs with no even length dicycles, and square nonnegative real matrices whose permanent and determinant are equal. The structural characterizations, which are topological in nature, imply polynom...

The standard matrix permanent is the solution to a number of combinatorial and graph-theoretic problems, and theα-weighted permanent is the density function for a class of Cox processes called boson processes. The exact computation of the ordinary permanent is known to be #P-complete, and the same appears to be the case for the α-permanent for most values of α. At present, the lack of a satisfa...

Right Ventricular Apical permanent pacing could have negative hemodynamic effects. A physiologic pacing modality should preserve a correct atrio-ventricular and interventricular synchronization. This can be obtained through biventricular pacing, left ventricular pacing, or from alternative right ventricular pacing sites. Direct His Bundle Pacing (DHBP) was documented as reliable and effective f...