PURPOSE A 3-dimensional finite element model consisting of a bone block and 2 simulated premolar crowns supported by 2 adjacent cylindric implants without immediately surrounding cortical bone was generated and used to investigate the effects of prosthesis materials and prosthesis splinting on the peri-implant bone stress under static loads. MATERIALS AND METHODS The peri-implant maximum equi...

class Element { attribute string name; attribute int position; abstract boolean isConnectedTo(Element n); string changeNameTo(string s); };boolean isConnectedTo(Element n); string changeNameTo(string s); }; abstract class Node extends Element {class Node extends Element { attribute set incomingLinks; attribute set outgoingLinks; boolean addIncomingLink(Link k); }; class ANode extend...

BACKGROUND Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) mainly depend on alpha1-adrenoreceptors (α1-ADR) stimulation, but a link with oxidative stress (OS) is also involved. D-004, a lipid extract of Roystonea regia fruits, antagonizes ADR-induced responses and produces antioxidant effects. The objective of this study was to investigate whether D-004 p...

curls and curves of a shell interweave its various strain modes and link them together. this interactional behavior has yet frustrated all attempts for the construction of shell templates, which needs for an individual element test in traditional approaches. such a test fails to work for shell elements and must be reconstructed. in this paper, it is tried to study shell interactional behavior a...

The primary motor cortex (M1) plays a prominent role in the initiation and control of voluntary movements. Due to its direct link with behaviour, M1 is an ideal platform to study how brain state and behaviour are related to single neuron dynamics. We perform patch-clamp recordings and somatic current injections in the M1 of awake mice to characterise the intracellular activity and integrative p...

Random number generators (RNGs) are consistently a weak link in the secure use of cryptography. Routine cryptographic operations such as encryption and signing can fail spectacularly given predictable or repeated randomness, even when using good long-lived key material. This has proved problematic in prior settings when RNG implementation bugs, poor design, or low-entropy sources have resulted ...

A novel configuration for realizing voltage/current-mode (VM/CM) universal filter using a single four terminal floating nullor (FTFN), a single current feedback amplifier (CFA), two capacitors and three resistors is presented. The VM configuration has three inputs and a single output and implements all the five generic filtering functions through the selection of inputs. This topology enjoys ca...

Dose-dependent pharmacokinetic of phenytoin necessitates the estimation of the maximum rate of metabolism (Vm) and the Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) in a concerned population. The aim of this study was to determine the pharmacokinetic parameters of phenytoin in a sample of Iranian patients to optimize the antiepileptic pharmacotherapy. Fourty patients who received a constant dose of phenytoin ...