The paper presents the results on hereditary and environmental dental findings in identification of human remains exhumed from mass graves in the Republic of Croatia. The total of 17,880 teeth from all the categories (incisors, canines, premolars and molars) was examined. Hereditary findings of the teeth such as shape, size, position, as well as age were used in all of the cases confirming and ...

Taurodontism is the morphoanatomical change in the shape of a tooth, which involves enlargement of the body of the tooth and shortening of the roots. Although a rare dental anomaly, unusual radicular form presents with challenging endodontic considerations. Endodontic management of taurodont teeth has been described as complex and difficult. The present article describes a brief literature revi...

As right quoted by MT Barrett, “of all the phases of anatomic study in human system, one of the most complex is the pulp cavity morphology.” The external and internal morphology of the tooth varies from person to person. For each tooth in permanent dentition, there is a wide range of variation reported in literature with the respect to frequency of occurrence of the number and shape of the cana...

Concrescence, Fusion, Gemination and twinning are developmental anomalies that modify the shape of the teeth. Gemination refers to the attempt at division of a toothgerm, resulting in formation of single large tooth, with groove or notch in the crown. Except gemination , others arise as a result of union of two toothgerms or tooth. This article is an illustration of case report of Gemination of...

Real-coded Adaptive Range Genetic Algorithms (ARGAs) have been applied to a practical three-dimensional shape optimization for aerodynamic design of an aircraft wing. The realcoded ARGAs possess both advantages of the binary-coded ARGAs and the floating-point representation to overcome the problems of having a large search space that requires continuous sampling. The results confirm that the re...

This paper presents a method for assisting the optimal selection of topologies for the minimum-weight design of continuum structures subject to stress constraints by using the performance index (PI ). A performance index is developed for evaluating the efficiency of structural topologies based on the scaling design approach. This performance index is incorporated in the evolutionary structural ...

A multilevel decomposition approach for the preliminary design of a High Speed Civil Transport Aircraft wing structure is described. The wing design is decomposed into three levels. The top level uses the FLOPS aircraft synthesis program to generate preliminary weights, mission, and performance information. The optimization criterion is productivity expressed by a productivity index for the spe...

The paper discusses incomplete sensitivity evaluations for shape optimization problems. It also shows how reduced order models can be introduced to extend the validity domain of the approach. 1 ha l-0 07 90 08 5, v er si on 1 19 F eb 2 01 3 Author manuscript, published in "Control and Cybernetics 39, 3 (2010) 615-630"