BACKGROUND Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is considered multifactorial and is defined as a group of pain conditions characterized by functional stomatognathic system alterations, which may be affected by or related disrupted postural control. OBJECTIVE Assess the immediate effect of nonspecific mandibular mobilization (NMM) on the postural control of subjects diagnosed or not with TMD. ME...

The synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties of lithium dibarium calcium oxide fluoride di-sulfide are reported. LaCa0.143 (4)O0.857 (4)F0.143 (4)Bi0.857 (4)S2 crystallizes in the tetra-gonal space group P4/nmm. The structure exhibits disorder of the Ca(2+) and Bi(3+) cations, and the O(2-) and F(-) anions. The structure is composed of a stacking of [(O,F)2La2] layers and double [(Bi,Ca)S2...

The aldol reaction of acetone with aldehydes in aqueous medium under catalysis by zinc-proline (Zn(L-Pro)2) and secondary amines such as proline, (2S,4R)-4-hydroxyproline (Hyp) and (S)-(+)-1-(2-pyrrolidinomethyl)pyrrolidine (PMP) is shown to proceed by an enamine mechanism, as evidenced by reductive trapping of the iminium intermediate, while the aldol reaction of dihydroxyacetone (DHA) under c...

Numerical manifold method was applied to directly solve Navier-Stokes N-S equations for incompressible viscous flow in this paper, and numerical manifold schemes for N-S equations coupled velocity and pressure were derived based on Galerkin weighted residuals method as well. Mixed cover with linear polynomial function for velocity and constant function for pressure was employed in finite elemen...

This paper presents an ambient intelligence system designed for assisted living. The system processes audio and video data acquired from multiple sensors spread in the environment to automatically detect dangerous events and generate automatic warning messages. The paper presents the distributed perception infrastructure that has been implemented by means of an open-source software middleware c...

Mackinawite,tetragonal FeS, has been synthesised by reacting iron with Na2S solutions. A Rietveld structure refinement of X-ray powder diffractipn data, recorded using X-rays monochromated from synchrotron radiationwith a wavelength of 0.6023 A, has been performed. The structure has been refined in the tetragonal sJ'.!lcegroup, P4/nmm, and has the following cell parameters: a = 3.6735(4), c = 5...

Sequences of DNA strands were listed in the following. DNA oligonucleotides were synthesized by Shanghai Sangon Biotechnology Co (Shanghai, China). DNA oligonucleotide solutions were prepared by dissolving in Tris-HCl buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl, 200 mM KCl, 10 mM MgCl2, pH 8.0) and quantified by measuring UV-visible absorption spectroscopy at 260 nm. NMM was purchased from Porphyrin Products (Logan...

We report the synthesis of BaPt2As2 single crystals and the discovery of superconductivity and a structural phase transition in this compound by measuring the electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility and specific heat as well as the X-ray diffraction at low temperatures. BaPt2As2 crystallizes in the CaBe2Ge2-type tetragonal structure (P4/nmm) at room temperature and undergoes a first-ord...

Three ordered structures of the tetragonal BaAl4 type were identified in the Ba-Au-Sn system, from which a unified view of the interplay between the valence electron counts (VECs) and phase stabilities of these three types of derivatives can be developed. The BaNiSn3 (I4mm), ThCr2Si2 (I4/mmm), and CaBe2Ge2 (P4/nmm) type BaAu(x)Sn(4-x) phases occurred respectively at x = 0.78(1)-1, 1.38(1)-1.47(...