BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES To collect the reference values for facial asymmetry in adults using landmark and surface-based three-dimensional analyses and to compare their diagnostic abilities. MATERIALS AND METHODS Laser scans were taken from 85 British Caucasians, 29 males (23.9±5.7 years, range 19-44) and 56 females (28.1±9.5 years, range 19-54), students and staff of the Cardiff Dental Hospital...

PURPOSE To compare the outcome of Collagen cross-linking (CXL) with that following topography-guided customized ablation treatment (T-CAT) with simultaneous CXL in eyes with progressive keratoconus. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a prospective, non-randomized single centre study of 66 eyes with progressive keratoconus. Of these, 40 eyes underwent CXL and 26 eyes underwent T-CAT + CXL. The ref...

OBJECTIVE Facial symmetry is an important factor affecting esthetics. Thus, its restoration is an essential task in maxillofacial surgery. The aim of this study is to develop an objective measure of facial asymmetry by a novel approach where both the shape and the color are taken into account and to validate its correlation with perception. METHODS Optical three-dimensional (3D) face scans of...

introduction many features, emerging from mathematical techniques, have been used in the analysis of brain signals. in this study, the physical quantity of “moment of inertia” (moi) was introduced as a feature to enhance high-frequency waves (hfws) in electroencephalography (eeg). materials and methods in this research, the recorded eegs from f3, f4, and cz points in 20 males were used. a total...

we study the eigenenergies and eigenfunctions of the ground and first excited states (gfes) of an electron strongly coupled to the lo-phonon in an asymmetry quantum dot (aqd) under an applied electric field by using a variational method of the pekar type (vmpt). this aqd two-level system may be viewed as a single qubit. when the electron is in the superposition state (ss) of the gfes, the effec...

This article offers an unpopular comparativistic method that does not fit into the previously known conceptual frameworks of comparative literature. In order to be more clearly distinguished from hermeneutic practices existing in comparativistics, a brief overview some basic views on subject literature has been made. Thus, it becomes clear we only ignore contactological aspect, but apply this a...