OBJECTIVE The objective of this investigation was to evaluate the relative contribution of variables in the crown-cement-tooth system that can influence magnitude of maximum principal stress in all-ceramic crowns. METHODS.: Factorial analysis was performed to calculate the coefficients of main and interactive effects of seven variables on maximum stress distribution in a series of finite elemen...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Contradictory results in correlation studies of plant carbohydrates with freezing tolerance may be because whole crown tissue is analysed for carbohydrates while differences exist in the survival of specific tissue within the crown. The aim of this study was to see if carbohydrate changes in tissue within oat crowns during second phase hardening (sub-zero hardening) are tiss...

Carbohydrates have long been recognized as an important aspect of freezing tolerance in plants but the association between these two factors is often ambiguous. To help clarify the relationship, the allocation of carbohydrates between specific tissues within the over wintering organ (crown) of winter cereals was measured. A winter-hardy and non-winter-hardy oat (Avena sativa L.), and a rye (Sec...

The late Eocene prosimian Wadilemur elegans from the Jebel Qatrani Formation, northern Egypt, was originally interpreted as an anchomomyin adapiform primate based on limited information from the lower molars and distal premolars. Recently recovered fossils attributable to this species, including a proximal femur, the fourth upper premolar and first and second upper molars, and a mandible preser...

introduction: a limited number of studies have evaluated factors influencing the retention of fixed prostheses cemented to implant abutments. the aim of this study was to compare the effect of varying degrees of screw access channel obturation on retention of implant-supported cast fixed restorations. materials  & methods: in this experimental study, 40 implant abutments with a diameter of 4.5 ...

Analyses of multi-armed bandits primarily presume that the value of an arm is its expected reward. We introduce a theory for multi-armed bandits where the values are the modes of the reward distributions.