objectives : the aim of this in-vitro experimental study was to assess the effect of application of a desensitizing varnish on the enamel and dentin marginal seal. materials and methods: seventy-two freshly extracted, intact human premolar teeth were divided into four groups (n=18). class v cavities (3mm in length, 2mm in width and 2mm in depth) were prepared on the buccal surface of each tooth...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the sealing ability of dentin bonding agents in root canals obturated with gutta-percha and mta. methods: forty-five single rooted human premolar teeth were decoronated so that remaining root portions were 12 mm in length. the samples were divided randomly into three experimental (n=13) and two control groups (n=3). all teeth were instrume...

The literature on leakage-resilient cryptography contains various leakage models that provide different levels of security. In this work, we consider the bounded leakage and the continual leakage models. In the bounded leakage model (Akavia et al. – TCC 2009), it is assumed that there is a fixed upper bound L on the number of bits the attacker may leak on the secret key in the entire lifetime o...

Static electricity is one of the reasons for gas explosions in coal mines. When miners leave the narrow tunnel exit of a coal mine, the body voltage may increase by more than ten times with the body capacitance decreasing quickly to 1/10 of its original value, and the body electrostatic discharge (ESD) energy can increase greatly to become a dangerous gas ignition source. In this work, simulati...

It is known that hyperglycemic response to 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG), a competitive inhibitor of glycolysis [1,22], is neurogenic through the sympathetic activation of adrenal catecholamine secretion [2,6,8]. An increase in the efferent discharge of adrenal nerve filaments after systemic administration of 2-DG was reported by Niijima [12]. Several studies have indicated that neural elements whic...

background and aims. various materials and methods have been introduced for obturating cleaned and shaped root canal systems. this in vitro study aimed to evaluate the sealing ability of single-cone obturation technique with mineral tri-oxide aggregate and calcium-enriched mixture based on bacterial leakage approach. materials and methods. sixty-four single-canal teeth were prepared and randoml...

This work reports the use of nasal leakage to achieve the pressure difference for voicing in utterance-initial Spanish stops. Multiparametric aerodynamic and acoustic data were analyzed for six Spanish speakers. Two main patterns of prenasalization were identified in postpausal voiced stops: (i) delayed nasal closure relative to the oral closure and (ii) a momentary nasal opening (nasal burst) ...

Conventional leakage reduction techniques focus primarily on sub-threshold leakage mitigation, while neglecting the effect of gate leakage current. This work focuses on understanding gate leakage current and developing circuit techniques for total leakage minimization. We present an efficient technique for gate leakage of CMOS circuits. Input vector control and circuit reconfiguration technique...

Aim: To share our experience as day care laparoscopic cholecystectomy and to assess its safety and feasibility in local set up. Methods: All patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy as day care from October 2011 to April 2012 at Akhtar Saeed Trust Hospital and Farooq Hospital Lahore after fulfilling the criteria were included in study. There were 50 patients. The patient’s demographi...

Low temperature air plasma was used to sterilize the Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa ATCC15442) samples on the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) sheet in a self-designed reactor that included the discharge area, afterglow area and remote area. The air plasma sterilization rules in the three zones were respectively showed on the following conditions: discharge power was 60W and gas flux was...