OBJECTIVE To assess the surface roughness resulting after application of currently available interproximal polishing. MATERIALS AND METHODS The analysis was carried out by means of digital subtraction radiography, profilometry, and scanning electron microscopy. The roughness of natural untreated enamel served as the reference. Five enamel reduction methods were tested (Profin, New Metal Strip...

The Internet and the Grid are changing the face of high performance computing. Rather than tightly-coupled SPMD-style components running in a single cluster, on a parallel machine, or even on the Internet programmed in MPI, applications are evolving into sets of cooperating components scattered across diverse computational elements. These components may run on diierent operating systems and har...

Reactions of the free radical nitrogen monoxide (NO) with metal–oxygen species of metalloproteins are relevant to NO metabolism and detoxification. For example, oxyhemoglobin and oxymyoglobin react with NO to form nitrate. The ferryl state of these globins also reacts with NO to reduce them to the Fe state, forming nitrite. This has led to the suggestion that the role of NO could be that of an ...

production of thin steel strips with 0.18-0.26 mm thickness is about 0.75 of annual production of the two stand reversing cold mill, while its efficiency is 60%. this is due to the fact that after montaging the grinded work rolls, rolling thin steel strips (with thicknesses less than 0.18 millimeters) is unavailable. initially, unsuitable surface roughness, the friction between rolls and the st...

19 Iron is essential for pathogen survival, virulence, and colonization. Feo is suggested to function as 20 the ferrous iron (Fe) transporter. The enterobacterial Feo system is composed of 3 proteins: FeoB is 21 the indispensable component and is a large membrane protein likely to function as a permease; FeoA is 22 a small src-homology 3 (SH3) domain protein that interacts with FeoB; FeoC is a ...

BACKGROUND Polo-like kinases control multiple events during cell division, including mitotic entry, centrosome organization, spindle formation, chromosome segregation and cytokinesis. Their roles during cytokinesis, however, are not well understood because the requirement of these kinases during early stages of mitosis complicates the study of their functions after anaphase onset. METHODOLOGY...