BACKGROUND Mechanical loading is known to play an important role in bone remodelling. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of high- and low-frequency axial loading, applied directly to the implant, on peri-implant bone healing and implant osseointegration. METHODOLOGY Titanium implants were bilaterally installed in rat tibiae. For every animal, one implant was loaded (test) while the other...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and magnitude of neonatal hypophosphataemia (<4mg/dL) in a neonatal Intensive Care Unit and to describe risk groups. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective study of hospitalised newborns over a 44 month period (phase 1). Retrospective study of <1,500g/<32 weeks of gestation newborns over a 6 month period (phase 2). Prospective study of <1,500g or 1,550-2,000g,...

Epidemiology is concerned with groups of subjects belonging to populations, not with each individual subject, and takes into account both the subjects who contract a disease and those who do not. Comparison, thus, is a basic element of this discipline. Measures of frequency, association and impact are the main statistical resources employed in epidemiology to describe the distribution of health...

Entropy is a state function. The entropy increase principle tells us that under isolated or adiathermal conditions, the spontaneous development of a system from a state of non-equilibrium to a state of equilibrium is a process of entropy increase, in which a state of equilibrium corresponds to a state of maximum entropy. When the system is in a state of equilibrium, it is also at its most chaot...

STUDY DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional design of healthy young adults. Continuous motion monitoring of the cervical spine performed outside of a laboratory setting. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to quantify the daily frequency and magnitude of neck motion in healthy human subjects using continuous motion monitoring. SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND DATA Daily frequency and magnitudes o...

Most conventional features used in speaker recognition are based on spectral envelope characterizations such as Mel-scale filterbank cepstrum coefficients (MFCC), Linear Prediction Cepstrum Coefficient (LPCC) and Perceptual Linear Prediction (PLP). The MFCC’s success has seen it become a de facto standard feature for speaker recognition. Alternative features, that convey information other than ...