objectives: proper diagnosis and prevention of malocclusion are superior to treatment. discrepancy between arch length and tooth size in mixed dentition period is a condition requiring timely diagnosis. estimating the mesiodistal width of unerupted teeth according to the size of erupted ones can lead to earlier diagnosis of malocclusion. on the other hand, the best timing for serial extractions...

in this study, a pellet scale model was developed for trickle bed reactor utilizing cfd techniques. drag coefficients were calculated numerically at different velocities and bulk porosities in the case of single phase flow through the dry bed. the simulation results were then compared with the prediction of kozeny-carman (k-c) equation. the results indicated that drag coefficients calculated fr...

background : underweight as a public health problem in young women is associated with nutritional deficiencies, menstrual irregularity, eating disorders, reduced fertility, etc. since resting metabolic rate (rmr) is a necessary compo-nent in the development of nutrition support therapy, therefore we determined the accuracy of commonly used pre-dictive equations against rmr measured by indirect ...

A correlation based on the general form of cubic equations of state has been derived. This equation provides a convenient mathematical form of the Joule-Thomson coefficient in terms of the state variable V and T. The Joule-Thomson coefficient calculated by this correlation has been compared with experimental data. It has been shown that the Redilich-Kwang equation of state is a suitable equ...

In this study, a pellet scale model was developed for trickle bed reactor utilizing CFD techniques. Drag coefficients were calculated numerically at different velocities and bulk porosities in the case of single phase flow through the dry bed. The simulation results were then compared with the prediction of Kozeny-Carman (K-C) equation. The results indicated that drag coefficients calculated fr...

The purpose of this study was to compare the validity between three established prediction equations and our prediction equation referenced by DEXA (Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) on fat free mass (FFM) in Taiwan male soccer players. Methods: Twenty seven elite Taiwan soccer players were estimated by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and DEXA. The R2 value of FFM estimated by our predic...

Neural network is one of the new soft computing methods commonly used for prediction of the thermodynamic properties of pure fluids and mixtures. In this study, we have used this soft computing method to predict the coefficients of the Antoine vapor pressure equation. Three transfer functions of tan-sigmoid (tansig), log-sigmoid (logsig), and linear were used to evaluate the performance of diff...

an artificial neural network (ann) was used to analyse the capillary rise in porous media. wetting experiments were performed with fifteen liquids and fifteen different powders. the liquids covered a wide range  of  surface  tension ( 15.45-71.99  mj/m2 )  and  viscosity (0.25-21 mpa.s). the powders also provided an acceptable range of particle size (0.012-45 μm) and surface free energy (25.54-...

validation of predicting fatness methods in the iranian girls with respect to the maturity process could help to identify anthropometric risk factors. this study evaluate the accuracy of four body composition prediction equations in the teenager students in hamadan city .method: the anthropometry profile of 266 adolescent girls (12-16 ys) including ,weight (55.69±10.18 kg),body mass index (21.9...