background and aims. inferior alveolar nerve block injection is one of the common intra oral anesthetic techniques, with a failure rate of 15-20%. the aim of this study was to evaluate the position of the lingula as an index for this injection. materials and methods. thirty eight panoramic radiographs of 7–11 year old patients were analyzed and the distance between the lingula index and occlusa...

The most popular method used to gain an understanding of population trends or of differences in bird abundance among land condition categories is to use information derived from point counts. Unfortunately, various factors can affect one's ability to detect birds, and those factors need to be controlled or accounted for so that any difference in one's index among time periods or locations is an...

This paper deals with the problem of measuring the similarity degree between two normalized possibility distributions encoding preferences or uncertain knowledge. Many existing de nitions of possibilistic similarity indexes aggregate pairwise distances between each situation in possibility distributions. This paper goes one step further, and discusses de nitions of possibilistic similarity meas...

An exhaustive and systematic study of the structural and electronic properties of cyclooctatetraene (COT) upon substitution of hydrogen atoms by fluoro and cyano groups has been carried out in order to analyse the influence of both substituents on the aromaticity. We found that C-C distances decrease with fluoro substitution while in cyano derivatives the opposite happens. All the compounds ret...

The adjacent eccentric distance sum index of a graph G is defined as ξsv(G) = ∑ v∈V (G) ε(v)D(v) deg(v) , where ε(v), deg(v) denote the eccentricity, the degree of the vertex v, respectively, and D(v) = ∑ u∈V (G) d(u, v) is the sum of all distances from the vertex v. In this paper we derive some upper or lower bounds for the adjacent eccentric distance sum in terms of some graph invariants or t...

the aim of this study is assessing and mapping landslide susceptibility in watershed of semiarid mountain areas. saeedabad-chai watershd is located on the northwest of iran and the north of sahand mountain. this study is using bivariate statistical analysis (bsa), weights-of-evidence (woe),gis. the results of this assessment show that causative factors as slope (∑wæ’= + 3.965), landuse(∑wæ’...

the effectiveness of irap, remap, ssr, and issr markers were investigated to assess genetic diversity among and within eight medicago sativa l. populations. a total of 101, 119, 117 loci and 31 alleles were amplified using 10 irap, 14 remap, 16 issr and eight ssr primers, respectively. irap markers generated the maximum proportion of polymorphic loci per primer (pplp) while the maximum value of...