OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the surface degradation effect of acidulated phosphate fluoride (APF) gel exposure on the glassy matrix ceramics as a function of time. MATERIAL AND METHODS Disc-shaped ceramic specimens (N = 120, 10/per ceramic material) were prepared in stainless steel molds (inner diameter: 5 mm, height: 2 mm) using 6 dental ceramics: 3 indicated for ceramic-fused-to-metal (V...

Program Number: 841 Presentation Time: 3:15 PM–3:30 PM Vitamin A deficiency impacts acquisition, but not expression, of autoimmunity to the neuroretina Reiko Horai, Ru Zhou, So Jin Bing, Kaska Wloka, Jun Chen, Phyllis Silver, Yingyos Jittayasothorn, Rachel R. Caspi. Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD. Purpose: Vitamin A (VitA) and its derivative retinoic acid ar...

Citation: Riganello F, Macrì S, Alleva E, Petrini C, Soddu A, Leòn-Carriòn J and Dolce G (2016) Pain Perception in Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome May Challenge the Interruption of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Neuroethics in Action. Front. Neurol. 7:202. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00202 pain perception in Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome May Challenge the interruption of Artificial nutri...

Back of device touch screen capable game systems have been commercially available since the release of the Playstation Vita in 2012, however the use of these touch screens in games has been limited. With the release of the touch screen lacking Playstation Vita TV, it seemed as though the use of the second touch screen would become even less common as developers produce games with features commo...

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An initial fragment of a core ontology for the manufacturing domain is presented and motivated. It consists of an ontological classification of ADACOR concepts according to the DOLCE foundational ontology. The ontology is conceptually transparent and semantically explicit thus suitable for information communication, sharing, and retrieval. The system here described considers entities performing...

By applying the Corpus Pattern Analysis procedure (CPA, Hanks 2004) to the analysis of concordances for ca 1000 English, Italian and Spanish verbs conducted with the aim of acquiring their most recurrent patterns, intended as corpus-derived argument structures with specification of the expected semantic type for each argument position (i.e. [[Human]] attends [[Event]]), we compiled a list of ab...

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Corresponding author: Prof. Michael John Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Via Olgettina, 6

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