OBJECTIVES The aim was to determine the association of occupational arm inclination with shoulder pain in construction and health care workers. METHODS Arm inclination relative to the vertical was measured with an accelerometer placed on the dominant upper arm for up to four full days at baseline in 62 construction workers and 63 health care workers. The pain intensity in the shoulder and mec...

Recent experimental techniques that isolate the preference for competition has found men to be much more competitively inclined than women (Niederle and Vesterlund, 2007). This evidence leads to an intriguing hypothesis: gender di erences in competitive inclination can explain gender inequality in economic outcomes, such as those in a developing countries context. This paper rst tests whether e...

Previous studies evaluated various risk factors for knee OA; however, no study has examined the association between spinal factors, such as total spinal alignment and spinal range of motion (ROM), with knee OA. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of spinal factors including total spinal alignment and spinal ROM on knee OA in community-living elderly subjects. A total of 170 s...

In the paper, we introduce and study generalized weighted influence indices of a coalition on a player, where players have an ordered set of possible actions. Each player has an inclination to choose one of the actions. Due to influence of a coalition of other players, a final decision of the player may be different from his original inclination. An influence in such situations is measured by t...

Objectives: 1.To investigate the relationship between nasal morphology in relation to sagittal and vertical maxillary skeletal pattern and 2.To know the relationship between the degree of upturn of the nose and the inclination of the palatal plane. Materials and Methods: Pretreatment lateral cephalograms of 60 adults of age 18-27 years with no previous history of trauma, surgical intervention, ...

background: the present study was designed to ascertain serial changes on distal radius radiographic parameters attributable to aging.       methods: in this prospective study, the sample consisted of 120 healthy individuals who were divided into four age groups each containing 15 males and 15 females. in the two below-20-year-old groups, only ulnar variance could be investigated. wrist radiogr...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the degree of perception of occlusal plane inclination and mandibular deviation in facial esthetics, assessed by laypeople, dentists and orthodontists. METHODS A woman with 5.88° of inclination and 5.54 mm of mandibular deviation was selected and, based on her original photograph, four new images were created correcting the deviations and creating...

Aim: Excessive material thinning has been observed in the production of custom-made mouthguards in a number of studies, due to production anomalies that may lead to such thinning. This study investigated the effect of thinning material patterns of custom made mouthguards when the anterior angulation of dental model was increased during the thermoforming process. Materials & Methods: A total of ...

We investigated whether vertical-shear disparity was extracted from the whole visual field or from a more local area and how global estimates of vertical disparity are derived. We also investigated the role of cyclovergence in processing shear disparity. Random-dot stereoscopic displays in various configurations were presented with horizontal-shear disparity, vertical-shear disparity or same-si...