This study describes sexual dimorphism in dental indexes derived from the permanent dentition. Three dental indices--'crown area,' 'crown module' and 'crown index'--were calculated from the buccolingual (BL) and mesiodistal (MD) measurements of 123 permanent dentitions (58 females and 65 males) belonging to young Nepalese adults (age-range 19-28 years). Sex differences in the dental indexes wer...

The morphologic relationship of the crown structures of the maxillary second deciduous molar (m2) and the first permanent molar (M1) was investigated with odontometric methods. Materials used were 124 male dental casts taken from Chinese living in Kaohsiung (Taiwan). The mesiodistal and buccolingual diameters, cusp sizes, and intercusp distances were measured. The mean crown diameters were larg...

The aim of this study was to develop a relatively rapid, simple and repeatable method to characterize the crown architecture of Queensland maple (Flindersia brayleyana F. Muell.) by vertical hemispherical photography. Calibration scales were developed to provide horizontal planes of measurement at heights from 15 to 40 m above the camera. Hemispherical images of tree crowns were merged with the...

The master apical preparation size in root canal therapy is debatable despite considerable research. The present study compared file sizes that bind at the apex before and during crown-down preparation and assessed the relation between apical size and extent of intracanal bacterial load. There were 100 single-rooted teeth biomechanically prepared after inoculation with Enterococcus faecalis. Ca...

a conductance study of the interaction between cs+, rb+, nh4+, k+, t1+ and ag+ ions and18-crown-6 (18c6), benzo-18-crown-6 (b18c6), dicyclohexyl-18-crown-6 (dc18c6),dicyclohexyl-24-crown-8 (dc24c8), dibenzo-24-crown-8 (db24c8) in different binarymixtures of acetonitrile (an) with dimethylsulfoxide (dmso) and dimethylformamide (dmf)at 25 °c has been carried out. formation constants of the result...

The 2002 Biscuit Fire burned through more than 200,000 ha of mixed-conifer/evergreen hardwood forests in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California. The size of the fire and the diversity of conditions through which it burned provided an opportunity to analyze relationships between crown damage and vegetation type, recent fire history, geology, topography, and regional weather conditions o...

Complex formation between the silver(I) ion and monoazaand diaza-crown ethers has been studied in five polar, nonaqueous solvents using potentiometric techniques. The stability constants are spread over seven orders of magnitude, and the major contributor to this variation is the solvation of the silver(I) cation. The ring-size dependence of the stability constants is determined both by the cor...

This paper characterizes the growth and crown morphology of young balsam ®r saplings naturally regenerated under a gradient of understory light environments and intraspeci®c competition densities for two size classes (50±100 cm and 100± 200 cm). Most growth and crown morphological parameters investigated were strongly related to the natural light gradient investigated (3±83% full sunlight), but...