OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to develop a new kinetic model for the shrinkage-strain rates of dental resin composites. The effect of filler content on the shrinkage-strain kinetics and degree of conversion of dental composites was also investigated. METHODS A resin matrix containing 65 wt.% Bis-GMA and 35 wt.% TEGDMA was prepared. 0.5 wt.% camphorquinone and 0.5 wt.% dimethyl aminoethy...

The reversibility of wood shrinkage through swelling of birch (Betula pubescens) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) as a measure of their response to changing conditions of adsorption and desorption during service was determined. Virtually all dimensional changes that occurred in the form of shrinkage during drying at both conventional and high temperatures were recovered during swelling in b...

The aim of this paper is twofold. In the rst part, we recapitulate the main results regarding the shrinkage properties of Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression. In particular, we give an alternative proof of the shape of the PLS shrinkage factors. It is well known that some of the factors are > 1. We discuss in detail the e ect of shrinkage factors for the Mean Squared Error of linear estimato...

The amount of shrinkage and the scanning electron microscope appearance of specimens of rat tongue, soft palate and small intestine, dehydrated by air­ drying, the critical point technique, the camphene technique and freeze drying were compared. In the specimens of tongue the area shrinkage ranged be­ tween 11,8 and 30,4 per cent, in the soft palate from 19,8 to 37,4 per cent and in the small i...

Shale gas is a promising new energy source stored in shale. This research aims to study the laws of rock crack initiation and propagation under low-temperature fracturing liquid nitrogen, explore influencing factors shale reservoir effect, identify method that achieves best effect obtains highest economic benefits. Herein, visualized physical experiment nitrogen carried out, fracture process nu...

Reactive powder concrete (RPC) mixtures are reported to have excellent mechanical and durability characteristics. However, such concrete mixtures having high amount of cementitious materials may have high early shrinkage causing cracking of concrete. In the present work, an attempt has been made to study the simultaneous effects of three key mixture parameters on shrinkage of the RPC mixtures. ...

this study was conducted to investigate the spatial variability of model parameters of soil shrinkage curve in cherlgerd district, chaharmahal-va-bakhtiari province. ninety nine locations were selected and soil clods were collected from the 0-10 cm layer and brought to the laboratory. soil shrinkage curve was measured, according to archimedes's principle, by covering the undisturbed clods ...

The shrinkage method of Ledoit and Wolf (2003; 2004a; 2004b) has shown certain success in estimating a well-conditioned covariance matrix for high dimensional portfolios. This paper generalizes the shrinkage method of Ledoit and Wolf to a multivariate shrinkage setting, by which the well-conditioned covariance matrix is estimated using the weighted averaging of multiple priors, instead of singl...

To reduce volumetric shrinkage of the commercially available polymeric dental composite during curing reaction, (2,2-bis [4-(2-hydroxy-3-methacryloyloxy propoxy) phenyl] propane) (bis-GMA) derivatives, i.e., (2,2-bis[3-methyl, 4-(2-hydroxy-3-methacryloyloxy propoxy) phenyl] propan) (DMBis-GMA) and (2,2bis[3,5-dimethyl, 4-(2-hydroxy-3-methacryloyloxy propoxy) phenyl] propane) (TMBis-GMA) were sy...

Pembrolizumab is a potent immune-modulating antibody active in advanced melanoma, as demonstrated in the KEYNOTE-001, -002, and -006 studies. Longitudinal tumor size modeling was pursued to quantify exposure-response relationships for efficacy. A mixture model was first developed based on an initial dataset from KEYNOTE-001 to describe four patterns of tumor growth and shrinkage. For subsequent...