OBJECTIVE To examine the ultimate accuracy of bracket placement in labial vs lingual systems and in direct vs indirect bonding techniques. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty pretreatment dental casts of 20 subjects were selected. For each dental cast, four types of bracket placement were compared: labial direct (LbD), labial indirect (LbI), lingual direct (LgD), and lingual indirect (LgI). Direct bo...

This paper describes a Transfer-Driven Machine Translation (TDMT) system as a prototype for efficient multi-lingual spoken-dialog translation. Currently, the TDMT system deals with dialogues in the travel domain, such as travel scheduling, hotel reservation, and trouble-shooting, and covers almost all expressions presented in commercially-available travel conversation guides. In addition, to pu...

Lingual orthodontics, among both young and adult patients, increased in popularity during last years. The purposes of the present investigation were to evaluate the shear bond strength (SBS) values and Adhesive Remnant Index (ARI) scores of different lingual brackets compared with a vestibular control bracket. One hundred bovine teeth were extracted and embedded in resin blocks. Four different ...

anatomy Mr. Wyatt Wingrave has been responsible, the text being freely illustrated by a series of excellent reproductions from his microscopical sections. On several questions the author's views widely differ from those of the majority of experienced laryngologists. Thus, for instance, he dwells at some length on the subject of varix of the tongue and hypertrophy of the lingual tonsil, and stat...

The relining of complete dentures involves solving all of the problems encountered in the construction of new dentures, except positioning individual teeth. The first and most important problem is to achieve a healthy condition of the tissues of the basal seat for the dentures. To do this, the patient must be without his dentures for at least 24 hours before the impressions are made. The dentis...

Abstract. This paper describes the participation of RICOH in the monolingual and cross-lingual information retrieval tasks on German Indexing and Retrieval Testdatabase (GIRT) in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2004. We used a morphological analyzer for word decompounding and parallel corpora for cross-lingual information retrieval. The performance of cross-lingual information retrie...

BACKGROUND Some studies have been performed on assessing the anatomical variations of lingual foramen and its bony canals, in many different countries but no study has been performed in Iran yet. The purpose of this study is to assess the anatomical variations of lingual foramen and its bony canals with cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging in Isfahan. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a ...

PURPOSE To estimate oral and maxillofacial surgery reporting of the frequency of temporary and permanent inferior alveolar and lingual nerve damage from lower third molar extraction and injury etiology, and to identify factors associated with injury rates. MATERIALS AND METHODS A postal survey was sent to all members of the California Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons requesting ...

Though great progress has been made in the Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis(ABSA) task through research, most of previous work focuses on English-based ABSA problems, and there are few efforts other languages mainly due to lack training data. In this paper, we propose an approach for performing a Cross-Lingual Aspect Classification (CLASC) which leverages rich resources one language (source lang...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine and compare the reliability to accomplish of common mandibular landmarks and to determine the incidence of incisive canals, anterior looping, and lingual foramina in children from panoramic and CBCT images. DESIGN Panoramic and CBCT images from 100 children and adolescent patients were randomly selected. In order to grade the visibility of mand...