In previous in vitro experiments using an Instron instrument, each test food was found to have characteristic textural properties. In vivo experiments were now made (1) to determine the degree to which variations in the vertical jaw movements during the crushing phase of mastication can be explained by the inherent properties of the foodstuff being chewed, and (2) to establish the degree to whi...

UNLABELLED To study mastication and swallowing disorders in patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD). OBJECTIVE To investigate mastication and swallowing disorders in patients with severe TMD referred to surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Clinical and experimental study involving ten individuals with TMD submitted to deglutition videofluoroscopy. These patients did not have posterior tee...

Much recent work appeals to a ban on vacuous quantification (NO VACUOUS QUANTIFICATION, henceforth NVQ) that operates not merely as a criterion of non-redundancy in an informal semantic sense but is actually assumed to constrain syntactic well-formedness. Enforcing NVQ is excessively expensive in computational terms, provably beyond the power of a context-free grammar (CFG) and probably requiri...

Consider the following (standard) linear programming problem: maximise a real-valued linear function CT x defined for optimisation variables x in Rn that have to satisfy the constraints Ax ≤ B, x ≥ 0, where the matrices A, B, and C are independent random variables that take values a, b, and c in Rm×n, Rm and Rn, respectively. Using an approach we developed in previous work [3], the problem is f...

The CAPM is still considered a first-order intellectual achievement, in spite of the current thought leaders also describing it as being “empirically vacuous” (Fama and French, 2006) or that “having a low, middle or high beta does not matter; the expected return is the same” (Ross, 1993).1 In­ deed, I would say the situation is worse, as volatility and beta are generally negatively correlated w...

The purpose of this study was to test the null hypothesis that molar movement during gum chewing in children with primary dentition is as smooth as in adults. Twenty-two healthy children with primary dentition and 23 healthy adult females participated in this study. Mandibular movement during gum chewing was recorded using an optoelectronic analysis system with six degrees-of-freedom at 100 Hz,...

ABSTRACT Luxation of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) in horses, despite being an uncommon condition, is often associated with local trauma involving head. Its clinical importance mainly related to painful injury and impairment multiple movements involved chewing breaking foods. The objective current work describe manual reduction technique TMJ dislocation a 6-year-old Mangalarga Marchador sta...

In the Scandinavian languages, sentential negation must be licensed outside VP, necessitating leftward movement of negative objects, Negative Shift (NegS). While string-vacuous NegS is possible in all Scandinavian varieties, there is a fair amount of cross-linguistic variation as to non-string-vacuous NegS. In particular, the varieties contrast in which constituents can be crossed by NegS and w...

The present investigation is a preliminary double-blind, controlled placebo, randomized clinical trial with a six month follow-up period. The study aimed to assess the efficacy of type A botulinum toxin (Botox, Allergan, Inc. Irvine, CA) to treat myofascial pain symptoms and to reduce muscle hyperactivity in bruxers. Twenty patients (ten males, ten females; age range 25-45) with a clinical diag...