Characteristics of produced concrete become changedthrough changingthe characteristics of materials constituting the concrete. These changes include: The quality of cement, the real ration of water to cement: with neglecting the further water within the aggregates or lack of that, the consideredratio fluctuates and the characteristics of the aggregate which are related to the following dimensio...

objectives: this study aimed to compare the durability of four adhesive systems by assessing their microtensile bond strength (mtbs) and microleakage during six months of water storage. materials and methods: a total of 128 human third molars were used. the adhesives tested were scotch bond multipurpose (sbmp), single bond (sb), clearfil-se bond (cseb), and all-bond se (abse). after sample prep...

The integration of various cellular networks; wireless Local Area Networks, Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), Long Term Evolution (LTE), mobile ad-hoc networks and personal area networks utilizing all IP-based architecture constitutes 4G wireless networks. The mobile users roam across the boundaries of different access networks which gives rise to the requirement of effec...

Fiber-reinforced composite restorations provide excellent esthetics; however, little is known regarding the influence of margin design on marginal accuracy and breaking strength for this type of crown. This study evaluated the effect of variations in tooth preparation design on the marginal accuracy and breaking strength of fiber-reinforced composite crowns. Three metal dies with a total conver...

In this paper, system operating margin (SOM) is estimated for vehicular ad-hoc networks in absence and presence of Rayleigh fading. The Ad-hoc IEEE 802.11 model is considered for estimating the signal strength and system operating margin. Rayleigh fading was then simulated and system operating margin are estimated in Rayleigh fading environment for different standard modulation schemes. Keyword...

We make the case that ERP-related profitability improvements first manifest themselves in gross margin. Using regression discontinuity analysis, we compared “SAP Successes” with their matched competitors before and after their SAP implementation periods and found that the gross margin of SAP successes improved significantly but not their operating margin. These results proved robust across two ...

background: failures such as marginal discoloration and composite chipping are still the problems of tooth-colored restorations on the substrate of enamel and porcelain, which some of these problems are consequently as a result of failures in the bonding layer. using fi lled resin has been recently introduced to increase the bond strength of this layer. the aim of this study was to compare the ...

We introduce into the classical perceptron algorithm with margin a mechanism that shrinks the current weight vector as a first step of the update. If the shrinking factor is constant the resulting algorithm may be regarded as a margin-error-driven version of NORMA with constant learning rate. In this case we show that the allowed strength of shrinking depends on the value of the maximum margin....