Lingual propulsion during swallowing is characterized by the sequential elevation of the anterior, middle, and dorsal regions of the tongue. Although lingual discoordination underlies many swallowing disorders, the coordinative organization of lingual propulsion during the typical and disordered swallow is poorly understood. The purpose of this investigation was to quantitatively describe the c...

We approach cross-lingual question answering by using a mono-lingual QA system for the source language and by translating resulting answers into the target language. As far as we are aware, this is the first cross-lingual QA system in the history of CLEF that uses this method—almost without exception, cross-lingual QA systems use translation of the question or query terms instead. We demonstrat...

Social network services (SNSs) have become new global and multilingual information platforms due to their popularity. In SNSs with content-sharing functionality, such as "retweets'' in Twitter and "share'' in Facebook, posts are easily and quickly shared among users, and some grow into large information cascades. Accompanied with such growth, cascades can spread over regions and languages. The ...

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of bracket type on the labiopalatal forces and moments generated in the sagittal plane. Incognito™ lingual brackets (3M Unitek), STb™ lingual brackets (Light Lingual System; ORMCO), and conventional 0.018 inch slot brackets (Gemini; 3M Unitek) were bonded on three identical maxillary acrylic resin models, with a palatally displaced right lateral in...

Introducción: La proximidad anatómica del conducto mandibular con las raíces de piezas posteriores mandibulares plantea un riesgo trauma durante la realización varios procedimientos odontológicos en región. Objetivo: El propósito estudio fue evaluar relación y los ápices radiculares premolares molares una población guatemalteca. Material métodos: Se evaluó distancia desde el hasta su sentido bu...

OBJECTIVE The purposes of this study were 1) to classify lingual dental arch form types based on the lingual bracket points and 2) to provide a new lingual arch form template based on this classification for clinical application through the analysis of three-dimensional virtual models of normal occlusion sample. METHODS Maxillary and mandibular casts of 115 young adults with normal occlusion ...