Long-term stability after orthodontic treatment is highly desirable, especially alignment of the mandibular anterior dentition as might be quantified by the irregularity index. Post orthodontic treatment stability is a vexing problem, and without permanent fixed retention, this issue has been a problem without a solution until recently. In 2014, long term stability of the mandibular anterior se...

Radio irregularity is a non-negligible phenomenon that has an impact on protocol performances. For instance, irregularity in radio range leads to asymmetric links that cause the loss of packets in different directions. In order to investigate its effect, the Radio Irregularity Model (RIM) is proposed that takes into account the irregularity of a radio range and estimates path losses in an aniso...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study is to assess the prevalence of malocclusion and orthodontic treatment needs among 12-15 years old school children of Udaipur, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted among 887 subjects aged 12-15 years. The prevalence of malocclusion and orthodontic treatment needs was assessed using dental aesthetic index (World Hea...

This study was performed to determine whether the sisters of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have evidence for insulin resistance. Three hundred and thirty-six women with PCOS, 307 sisters of these probands, and 47 control women were studied. The sisters were grouped by phenotypes: PCOS [hyperandrogenemia (HA) with chronic oligo- or amenorrhea, n = 39], HA with regular menses (n = 3...

Let G be a connected graph with maximum degree ∆(G). The irregularity index t(G) of G is defined as the number of distinct terms in the degree sequence of G. We say that G is maximally irregular if t(G) = ∆(G). The purpose of this note, apart from pointing out that every highly irregular graph is maximally irregular, is to establish upper bounds on the size of maximally irregular graphs and max...

Results: The mean age of 80 patients in this study group was 24 ± 6 years. Menstrual irregularity was the most common presenting problem occurring in 83% patients, followed by infertility (43%) and hirsutism (33%). Hyperandrogenism was demonstrated in 82%. USG feature of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome was apparent in 60% patients. The mean Body Mass Index was 27.4 ± 5.1 kg/m2. Diabetes, hypertensi...

BACKGROUND Aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of plantar fascia (PF) enthesopathy in Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients without distal peripheral neuropathy (DPN). METHODS We recruited 50 T2DM patients without DPN and 50 healthy controls. DPN was excluded using the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI). All patients underwent a bilateral sonographicevaluation of ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is characterized by short and irregular ventricular cycle lengths (VCL). While the beneficial effects of heart rate slowing (i.e., the prolongation of VCL) in AF are well recognized, little is known about the impact of irregularity. In 10 anesthetized dogs, R-R intervals, left ventricular (LV) pressure, and aortic flow were collected for >500 beats during fast AF and wh...

BACKGROUND This study analyzed regularity in the daily dosage of antidepressants taken by patients with bipolar disorder and identified the factors associated with irregularity. METHODS Daily self-reported medication dosage taken and mood ratings were available from 144 patients who received treatment as usual. All 144 patients took the same antidepressant for at least 100 days. One hundred e...

Focusing on problems existing in track irregularity time series data quality, this paper first presents abnormal data identification, data offset correction algorithm, local outlier data identification, and noise cancellation algorithms. And then proposes track irregularity time series decomposition and reconstruction through the wavelet decomposition and reconstruction approach. Finally, the p...