Shrinkage can be critical factor for the design of structural members due to the length changes by the timedependent deformation. Given the high fluidity and different mixture proportions of SCC, the shrinkage of such concrete can differ from those of conventional concrete or HPC of normal consistency. Proper estimate of autogenous shrinkage of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) can provide engi...

and Michael Lavine for useful discussions and the editor, associate editor, and the two anonymous referees for insightful comments. 2 Wavelet shrinkage, the method proposed by the seminal work of Donoho and Johnstone is a disarmingly simple and eecient way of denoising data. Shrinking wavelet coeecients was proposed from several optimality criteria. In this article a wavelet shrinkage by cohere...

statement of the problem: the routine procedure for immobilization of free gingival graft (fgg) is suturing. due to the successful application of tissue adhesives their employment has also become the subject of interest. purpose: the aim of present clinical trial was to compare using epiglu (e.g) versus silk thread suturing in fgg. materials and methods: this study was a split mouth clinical tr...

S 1.2 S. EJAZ AHMED University of Windsor Panelized and Shrinkage Estimation in Partially Linear Models Panelized and shrinkage regression have been widely used in high-dimensional data analysis. Much recent work has been done on the study of penalized least square methods in linear models. In this talk, we consider an absolute penalty type estimator (APE) for partially linear models, which is ...

Consider a problem of predicting a response variable using a set of covariates in a linear regression model. If it is a priori known or suspected that a subset of the covariates do not significantly contribute to the overall fit of the model, a restricted model that excludes these covariates, may be sufficient. If, on the other hand, the subset provides useful information, shrinkage meth...

Pyroplastic deformation is a distortion of the ceramic shape during the sintering process. It occurs because the flow of the vitreous phase at high temperature and the applied stress due to the weight of the product during sintering process. The aim of this paper deals with describing a numerical-experimental method to evaluate the pyroplastic deformation, to predict the anisotropic shrinkage a...

The purpose of this study was to compare the polymerization shrinkage stress of composite resins (microfilled, microhybrid and hybrid) photoactivated by quartz-tungsten halogen light (QTH) and light-emitting diode (LED). Glass rods (5.0 mm x 5.0 cm) were fabricated and had one of the surfaces air-abraded with aluminum oxide and coated with a layer of an adhesive system, which was photoactivated...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of low shrinkage monomers on physicochemical properties of dental resin composites. Two low shrinkage resin composites: one with a crosslink branching monomer (Kalore, GC Corp) and a novel monomer (Venus Diamond, Heraeus Kulzer) were compared to a conventional resin composite formulation (Filtek Z250, 3M/ESPE). The volumetric shrinkage...

BACKGROUND The effectiveness of thermal shrinkage on the medial parapatellar capsule for treating recurrent patellar dislocation is controversial. One of reasons why it is still controversial is that the effectiveness is still qualitatively measured. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively determine the immediate effectiveness of the medial parapatellar capsule shrinkage as in clinical ...

High-throughput expression profiling techniques bring novel tools and also statistical challenges to genetic research. In addition to detecting differentially expressed genes, testing the significance of gene sets or pathway analysis has been recognized as an equally important problem. Owing to the ‘‘large p small n’’ paradigm, the traditional Hotelling’s T 2 test suffers from the singularity p...