objective: mechanical plaque removal namely tooth brushing is the most commonly used oral hygiene technique. efficacy of tooth brushing is influenced by the design and shape of toothbrush. this study aimed to compare the efficacy of two common iranian toothbrushes with a foreign made one in plaque removal.   methods: this clinical trial was conducted on 30 female dental students in babol univer...

A bass enhancement technique based on a phase-vocoder approach is presented. Instead of direct bass boosting, the proposed method creates a bass impression by exploiting the psychoacoustic properties of humans. This technique is most useful in audio reproduction using small loudspeakers that have no low-frequency capability, where direct boosting will likely result in nonlinear distortions. In ...

BACKGROUND Gingivitis and other plaque-associated diseases have a high prevalence in western communities even though the majority of adults report daily oral hygiene. This indicates a lack of oral hygiene skills. Currently, there is no clear evidence as to which brushing technique would bring about the best oral hygiene skills. While the modified Bass technique is often recommended by dentists ...

By R. ROW, m.d. (Lond.), d.sc. (Load.), m.r.c.p., o.b.E., Professor of Pathology, Grant Medical College, Bombay. From the F. D. Petit Laboratory, Byculla, Bombay. To Bass belongs the credit of demonstrating for the first time that malarial parasites can be cultured in vitro: Bass and later on Bass and John's technique being complicated, the author of this memoir devised and published the detail...

INTRODUCTION Plaque control is the major consensus during orthodontic treatment to prevent the occurrence of cavities and periodontal inflammation. The mechanic resource of greater effectiveness and frequent use in this control is the oral hygiene. The tooth brushing techniques most used in orthodontic patients are: Ramfjord's method, Modified Stillman technique and Bass method. OBJECTIVE Sin...

Algorithms for Blind Audio Source Separation (BASS) in time domain can be categories as based on complete decomposition or based on complete decomposition. Partial decomposition of observation space leads to additional computational complexity and burden, to minimize resource requirement complete decomposition technique is preferred. In this script an optimized divergence based ICA technique is...

Probabilistic methodologies provide successful tools for automated music composition, such as melodic harmonisation, since they capture statistical rules of the music idioms they are trained with. Proposed methodologies focus either on specific aspects of harmony (e.g., generating abstract chord symbols) or incorporate the determination of many harmonic characteristics in a single probabilistic...

We present an attachment for the bass guitar which allows MIDI-controlled actuated fretting. This instrument adaptation is presented as a potential method of augmenting the bass guitar for those with upper-limb disabilities. Following a survey of 48 bassists, we found that timbral and dynamic features related to the plucking hand were most important to the survey respondents. We designed an act...

Sea bass nervous necrosis virus is the causative agent of viral nervous necrosis, a disease responsible of high economic losses in larval and juvenile stages of cultured sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). To identify genes potentially involved in antiviral immune defense, gene expression profiles in response to nodavirus infection were investigated in sea bass head kidney using the suppression su...

—The efficiency and delayed mortality caused by a new gastric lavage device was evaluated for use on largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides. A 12-V electric pump was specially fitted to flush stomach contents from largemouth bass larger than 200 mm. The device was easily operated by a single person and removed more than 90% of stomach contents. The lavage technique caused no immediate mortality ...