Moire photographs of the lingual surfaces of eight upper central incisors were taken using a specially designed standard plane. This plane was formed by three points, namely the most protruding points of the lingual tubercle, and the mesial and distal marginal ridges of the lingual surface. When the moire photographs taken using this standard plane were observed, they showed a high reproducibil...

In this paper, we describe a technique to improve named entity recognition in a resource-poor language (Hindi) by using cross-lingual information. We use an on-line machine translation system and a separate word alignment phase to find the projection of each Hindi word into the translated English sentence. We estimate the cross-lingual features using an English named entity recognizer and the a...

There is general agreement on the necessity of fixed lingual retainers to prevent relapse in many patients after active orthodontic treatment. Several methods for delivering fixed lingual retainers have been introduced. However, bonding a lingual retainer is still challenging because it requires long working time and has a risk of contamination from saliva and moisture, which can cause bonding ...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the length of the lingual frenulum and craniofacial morphology and test the hypothesis that skeletal Class III malocclusion is related to tongue-tie, in which the lingual frenulum is short and restricts the mobility of the tongue. METHODS The sample consisted of 50 skeletal Class I patients (0° < ANB angle < 4°),...

Damage to lingual nerve is one of the common complications of the removal of mandibular third molars. A random data was collected in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar. Effects of different factors (age and sex of the patient, experience of the operator and surgical method employed) were documented. Purpose of the study was to determine the f...

The tongue in four species of penguin was investigated by light microscopy and by scanning electron microscopy, with special reference to the lingual papillae. 1) The middle of the penguin tongue contains a pair of long cartilages and long tendons accompanied by striated muscle bundles. 2) Large, spine-like, and caudally directed lingual papillae (filiform-like papillae) densely cover the dorsa...

Multi-lingual generation starts from non-linguistic content representations for generating texts in different languages that are equivalent in meaning. In contrast, cross-lingual generation is based on a language-neutral content representation which is the result of a linguistic analysis process. Non-linguistic representations do not reflect the structure of the text. Quite differently, languag...

The conventional lingual arch is a nonfunctional fixed space maintainer used in the mandibular arch to maintain arch length by the prevention of mesial movement of the permanent first molars. This study highlights a functional lingual arch with a hinge-type lockable dentulous component that incorporates molar tubes, with various advantages over the conventional lingual arch. How to cite this ...

Lingual thyroid is a developmental anomaly caused by undescended thyroid tissue at the base of the tongue. Lingual thyroid is found predominantly in females and comprises 90% of ectopic thyroid tissue (1). In the majority of patients, the lingual thyroid is the only functioning thyroid gland tissue. Therefore early diagnosis with imaging techniques is clinically important to avoid permanent hyp...

The practice of cross-lingual transfer of speech technology is of increasing concern as the demand for recognition systems in multiple languages grows. Previous work has proved that: firstly, if there is a big difference between the source language and the target language, cross-lingual adaptation may not outperform scratch training even if the training set is limited; secondly, cross-lingual s...