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The score of the piano work nr. 7 Klavierstu ck XI by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1957) [4] consists of 19 fragments of music. The performer is instructed to choose at random one of these fragments, and play it; then choose another, different, fragment and play that, and so on. If a fragment is chosen that has already been played twice, the performance ends. It is natural to ask how many different w...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of two working cast fabrication techniques using strain-gauge analysis. METHODS Two working cast fabrication methods were evaluated. Based on a master model, 20 working casts were fabricated by means of an indirect impression technique using polyether after splinting the square transfer copings with acrylic resin. Specimens were ...

Three implant impression techniques, using 3 different splinting materials, were assessed for accuracy in a laboratory model that simulated clinical practice. For group A, an autopolymerizing acrylic resin was used to splint transfer copings. In group B, a dual-cure acrylic resin was used, and for group C, plaster, which was also the impression material, was used. A metal implant master cast wi...

The Global Conference on the Future of Hospital Pharmacy was hosted by the Hospital Pharmacy Section of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) as part of the 68th Annual Congress of FIP. Hospital pharmacists from around the globe met in Basel, Switzerland, on August 30 and 31, 2008, and successfully developed these consensus statements reflecting the profession’s preferred vision of ...

BACKGROUND Alveolar ridge augmentation procedures are often needed prior to implant placement or prosthetic rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to develop a quantitative method to assess the clinical outcome of such procedures. METHODS Two volumetric methods, based on the volume difference between the pre- and postoperative ridge, were developed. Either a transparent vacuum stent ma...

Foot fractures are among the most common foot injuries evaluated by primary care physicians. They most often involve the metatarsals and toes. Patients typically present with varying signs and symptoms, the most common being pain and trouble with ambulation. Diagnosis requires radiographic evaluation, although emerging evidence demonstrates that ultrasonography may be just as accurate. Manageme...

The aim of the present research is to identify the manufacturing factors that exert an active influence on the graphite phase formation in mottled Nihard cast irons constituting the roll shells of duplex work rolls processed by the double pour method during centrifugal casting. The studied rolls, referred to as alloy indefinite chill, were processed at industrial scale and had a core consisting...

The accurate duplicate cast obtained from a single impression reduces the profession clinical time, patient inconvenience, and extra material cost. The stainless steel working cast model assembly consisting of two abutments and one pontic area was fabricated. Two sets of six each custom aluminum trays were fabricated, with five mm spacer and two mm spacer. The impression methods evaluated durin...

We describe an approach to learning from long-tailed, imbalanced datasets that are prevalent in real-world settings. Here, the challenge is to learn accurate “fewshot” models for classes in the tail of the class distribution, for which little data is available. We cast this problem as transfer learning, where knowledge from the data-rich classes in the head of the distribution is transferred to...