Ridge splitting and ridge expansion have been used to expand narrow alveolar ridges. Piezosurgical ridge splitting involves separating the atrophic crests with piezosurgical inserts. Ridge expansion with motor-driven expanders was proposed to achieve the cortical dilation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of ridge gain by ridge expansion or ridge splitting. Eighteen (36 ra...

This study is about the development of a robust ridge regression estimator. It is based on weighted ridge MM-estimator (WRMM) and is believed to have potentials in remedying the problems of multicollinearity. The proposed method has been compared with several existing estimators, namely ordinary least squares (OLS), robust regression based on MM estimator, ridge regression (RIDGE), weighted rid...

this paper deals with ridge estimation of fuzzy nonparametric regression models using triangular fuzzy numbers. this estimation method is obtained by implementing ridge regression learning algorithm in the la- grangian dual space. the distance measure for fuzzy numbers that suggested by diamond is used and the local linear smoothing technique with the cross- validation procedure for selecting t...

We evaluate structural dependency of leakage losses in lithium niobate on insulator ridge waveguides. Generally, shallow ridge waveguides based on isotropic materials have inherent leakage loss for TM-like mode. On the other hand, lithium niobate is anisotropic material, thus the optical properties of lithium niobate based ridge waveguides are different from those of isotopic material based rid...

We study the approximation of a continuous function field over a compact set T , by a continuous field of ridge approximants over T , named ridge function fields. We first give general density results about function fields, and show how they apply to ridge function fields. We next discuss the parametrization of sets of ridge function fields, and give additional density results for some class of...

background: several grafting materials have been used for alveolar ridge augmentation. the literature lacks researches to compare cenobone to other grafting materials. the aim of this study was to compare cenobone/cenomembrane complex to bio-oss/bio-gide complex in lateral alveolar bone augmentation in terms of radiographic, histologic, and histomorphometric parameters. materials and methods: i...

As the uneven distribution of contrast agents and the perspective projection principle of X-ray, the vasculatures in angiographic image are with low contrast and are generally superposed with other organic tissues; therefore, it is very difficult to identify the vasculature and quantitatively estimate the blood flow directly from angiographic images. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic ...

In this paper, a novel hierachical fingerprint matching method is proposed through using the minutiae and ridge image. The ridge-based matching is complementary to the minutiae-based matching for the purpose to reduce the false matching. The ridge matching is only accomplished in the area of the convex hull constructed by those matched minutiae in the phase of minutiae-based matching. Experimen...

Abstract—A relative efficiency is defined as Ridge Estimate in the general linear model. The relative efficiency is based on the Mean square error. In this paper, we put forward a parameter of Ridge Estimate and discussions are made on the relative efficiency between the ridge estimation and the General Ridge Estimate. Eventually, this paper proves that the estimation is better than the general...