The aim of this clinical study was to describe the possibility of using the Nd:YAG laser device utilized in the dental offices to weld metals intraorally. The authors, before applying this technique "in vivo" on human subjects, tested the "in vitro" metal welding efficacy of dental Nd:YAG device firstly by interferometry, SEM, and EDS and subsequently by thermal camera and thermocouples in orde...

easurement of heart rate variability (HRV) has become an mportant research tool for both clinical and basic scientists 1,2). The better reproducibility and the possibility of easuring long-range heart rate (HR) fluctuations are dvantages of 24-h electrocardiographic (ECG) recordings ver short-term recordings in the assessment of HRV (2). ong-range oscillations of HR determine a larger proporion...

BACKGROUND Violence against women in families is the most common form of violence against them. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of domestic violence and its effects on married women of Ilam. METHODS In this descriptive-sectional research, 334 married women referred to medical health centers in Ilam were selected to participate using a random sampling method. After ob...

Trudinger-Moser inequality is a substitute to the (forbidden) critical Sobolev embedding, namely the case where the scaling corresponds to L∞. It is well known that the original form of the inequality with the sharp exponent (proved by Moser) fails on the whole plane, but a few modified versions are available. We prove a precised version of the latter, giving necessary and sufficient conditions...

The one-sided Littlewood–Paley inequality for pairwise disjoint rectangles in R2 is proved for the Lp-metric, 0 < p ≤ 2. This result can be treated as an extension of Kislyakov and Parilov’s result (they considered the one-dimensional situation) or as an extension of Journé’s result (he considered disjoint parallelepipeds in Rn but his approach is only suitable for p ∈ (1, 2]). We combine Kisly...

This version of What is and what will be has images distributed throughout the text as visual poetry. The images were mostly taken at Esalen Institute near Big Sur California and at my home in the Santa Cruz Mountains near San Jose California. The dolphin pictures and a few others were taken in Hawaii. The images in this version are formatted at 72 dots per inch. This is suitable for viewing on...

Advantageous inequality (AI) aversion, or paying at a personal cost to achieve equal reward distribution, represents a unique feature of human behavior. Here, we show that individuals have strong preferences for fairness in both disadvantageous (DI) and advantageous inequality (AI) situations, such that they alter others' payoff at a personal financial cost. At the neural level, we found that b...

where F is a monotone operator. Recently, Lu et al. [] were concerned with a special class of variational inequalities in which the mapping F is the complement of a nonexpansive mapping and the constraint set is the set of fixed points of another nonexpansive mapping. Namely, they considered the following type of monotone variational inequality (VI) problem: Find x∗ ∈ Fix(T), such that 〈(I –V ...

A review of the empirical research literature on Social Stories is presented, including a descriptive review and single-subject meta-analysis of appropriate studies. Examination of data suggests the effects of Social Stories are highly variable. Interpretations of extant studies are frequently confounded by inadequate participant description and the use of Social Stories in combination with oth...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of the school social environment experienced by children with physical disabilities and the social interactional characteristics of children with physical disabilities in the school environment. The goal was to understand the interactive processes that support or inhibit these children's social interactions. METHOD Nat...