BACKGROUND Inter-foraminal implant placement poses a risk to the sublingual artery as it enters the mandibular midline lingual foramen. Lack of consensus on the source of this artery poses a dilemma to surgeons during management of haemorrhagic episodes. Determination of the exact source of this artery is therefore pivotal. METHODS This was a cross-sectional descriptive study involving 34 adu...

In this paper we describe a joint effort by the City University of New York (CUNY), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and SRI International at participating in the mono-lingual entity linking (MLEL) and cross-lingual entity linking (CLEL) tasks for the NIST Text Analysis Conference (TAC) Knowledge Base Population (KBP2011) track. The MLEL system is based on a simple combination ...

Due in large part to the popularity and global nature of the Web, multi-lingual issues in computers is finally beginning to attract serious attention, from users and developers alike. At the Software Labs in NTT, we are involved in a project that confronts multi-lingual issues in a big way. Namely, we are building software designed to self-configure a global distributed search infrastructure. T...

Lingual lipase is usually secreted from von Ebner's glands, although there is great variation between species. Lingual lipase is thought to be an auxiliary enzyme for fat digestion and absorption in mammals; however, the reason for lipolysis in the oral cavity is not known. We focused on the gustatory sense and investigated the significance of lingual lipase in the perception of a fat taste by ...

The object of the study was to assess the incidence of lingual nerve sensory loss during removal of impacted mandibular third molar teeth, and the effect of retention of the lingual plate on the incidence. The subjects were 395 patients, of whom 362 completed the study. Removal of 504 impacted wisdom teeth with retention of the lingual plate was performed. Results showed that 381 (76%) of the t...

The tragic event of September 11 has prompted the rapid growth of attention of national security and criminal analysis. In the national security world, very large volumes of data and information are generated and gathered. Much of this data and information written in different languages and stored in different locations may be seemingly unconnected. Therefore, cross-lingual semantic interoperab...

BACKGROUND Neurological involvement is a serious complication associated to the surgical removal of impacted mandibular third molars and the radiological investigation is the first mandatory step to assess the risk of a possible post-operative injury to the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN). The aim of this study was to introduce a new radiological classification that could be normally used in clin...

Η παρούσα μελέτη ερευνά την κατάκτηση των γλωσσικών αποφρακτικών συμφώνων της Ελληνικής από τα παιδιά. Προηγούμενες έρευνες έχουν επισημάνει ότι η κατάκτηση ενός συμφώνου μπορεί να επηρεάζεται από τη συχνότητα εμφάνισής του στη γλώσσα καθώς και το φωνηεντικό του περιβάλλον. Στα Ιαπωνικά, π.χ., έχει αναφερθεί ότι το / k/ κατακτάται πριν από το /t/ και αυτό μπορεί να σχετίζεται με (α) τη μεγαλύτε...