Pulpitis, external root resorption, and pain may be experienced during orthodontic movement. The use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has been suggested to control these changes. The purpose of this study was to observe pulp-dentinal reactions, root resorption, tooth pain, and tooth movement after the application of a 4-ounce intrusive orthodontic force to human maxillary first ...

An accurate method of estimating the efficiency of in-service motors is needed in order to determine the performance of installed motors without disrupting the motor driven process.. In this paper, the motor efficiency is estimated using a non-intrusive implementation of the compensated slip method. The motor speed is accurately estimated using motor vibration signature analysis. A few other ef...

Abstract: This article aims to study the effects of shock-disturbed cracks on the cutting features of cone bits. By utilizing the Walsh’s model, a crack model was established for the damaged rock surrounding the induced hole, the intrusive coefficient of the cone bit was derived, and the drilling rate equation around the induced hole was formulated. The effects of crack density and disturbance ...

The reported study focuses on overlapping speech, transcription, annotation and disfluency analysis in an 8-hour audio corpus of French political interviews. Overlaps are frequent (on average 3-4 overlaps per minute) and of short duration (5% of data), non-intrusive overlaps being significantly shorter than intrusive ones. Disfluencies include repetitions, revisions and filled pauses. Manual an...

In this article, we present an approach towards a new nonintrusive speech quality estimator. The proposed method facilitates the evaluation of speech telephony services and provides diagnostic information by assessing dimensions of the perceptual quality space. One of these quality dimensions is Loudness, which describes a non optimal sound level. As an important part of the proposed model, a n...

The current study adopted the trauma film paradigm to examine potential moderators affecting heart rate (HR) as an indicator of peritraumatic psychological states and as a predictor of intrusive memories. We replicated previous findings that perifilm HR decreases predicted the development of intrusive images and further showed this effect to be specific to images rather than thoughts, and to de...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the attention training technique (ATT) on the frequency of intrusive thoughts experienced by a person with schizophrenia in her daily life. The attentional procedure was designed to attenuate self-focused attention and to reinforce attentional control and consisted of auditory external exercises. Homework practice was included to pro...

The study examined how social constraints on discussion of a traumatic experience can interfere with cognitive processing of and recovery from loss. Bereaved mothers were interviewed at 3 weeks (T1), 3 months (T2), and 18 months (T3) after their infants' death. Intrusive thoughts at T1, conceptualized as a marker of cognitive processing, were negatively associated with talking about infant's de...

An information management system should reduce the workload of the user. It should also learn about user's preferences and reduce the e ort in managing information. We propose a non-intrusive approach to building information management systems, based on software agents. Software agents are programs that carry out actions on behalf of the user autonomously. We describe the issues involved in des...

Results. Bleak or uncertain views about the afterlife are associated with multiple aspects of distress postloss. Uncertainty about the existence of an afterlife is associated with elevated intrusive thoughts, a symptom similar to posttraumatic distress. Widowed persons who do not expect to be reunited with loved ones in the afterlife report significantly more depressive symptoms, anger, and int...