The goal of the SpeechDat project is to develop spoken language resources for speech recognisers suited to realise voice driven teleservices. SpeechDat created speech databases for all official languages of the European Union and some major dialectal varieties and minority languages. The size of the databases ranges between 500 and 5000 speakers. In total 20 databases are recorded over the fixe...

The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway is activated in the majority of human malignancies and thus seems a likely therapeutic target. However, this pathway is genetically complex, complicating studies using pharmacologic mTOR inhibitors. In this issue of the JCI, Hoshii et al. examined mice deficient in one of the mTOR effector complex proteins, Raptor, to elucidate the role of mTORC1...

Correspondence to: Edson Hilgert Rua Francisco Paes, 31, apto. 22 Centro São José dos Campos CEP 12210-100 São Paulo Brazil Phone: +055 012 39227621 E-mail:[email protected] Abstract This study evaluates the marginal adaptation of ceramic copings front of two finish lines and addition of ceramic. Hence, two master steel dies were milled with all-ceramic crowns preparation, one with a round sho...

The introduction of elastomeric impression materials in dentistry resulted in the development of different methods of tissue retraction in order to achieve accurate impression of the finish line of the tooth preparation, which is necessary to fabricate a prosthetic crown. This area needs to be clean, dry and visible. The gingival retraction method [1] is conducted using a retraction cord soaked...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM No recent literature has reviewed the current scientific knowledge on complete coverage tooth preparations. PURPOSE This article traces the historic evolution of complete coverage tooth preparations and identifies guidelines for scientific tooth preparations. MATERIAL AND METHODS Literature covering 250 years of clinical practice was reviewed with emphasis on scient...

BACKGROUND The growing interest in marathon runners and marathons in Nigeria has not been reflected in reports of injuries and other health problems associated with these events. This study therefore outlines the incidence of injuries, marathon-related health problems and delivery of physiotherapy at the maiden and second editions of the Splash 105.5 FM/ICPC Integrity Marathon in Ibadan city, s...