Thin ridges often pose hindrance in oral implant placement. Inadequate width of ridge requires Innovative techniques in placing implants. One of such techniques is ridge splitting technique, Which helps expansion of the ridge with or without fracture of cortical plates. This technique has the advantage of immediate implant loading, in comparison with other ridge widening techniques. This articl...

An average inter-ridge distance (AID) computation method is proposed, and the average inter-ridge distance is used to classify fingerprint images. This method is experimentally proved to be able to speed up retrieving a fingerprint from the template database that is organized according to the inter -ridge distance. Inter-ridge distance-based classification method has the property of being able ...

Shuhua Liang, 2 Gonzalo Alvarez, Cengiz Şen, 2 Adriana Moreo, 2 and Elbio Dagotto 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA Computer Science and Mathematics Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laborat...

1 Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CINaM, Marseille, France, 2 Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France, 3 Quantum Information Science, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, 4 BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States,...

Tian Lan,1, ∗ C. W. Li,2 O. Hellman,1 J. A. Muñoz,1 H. Smith,1 D. L. Abernathy,3 and B. Fultz1 1Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 2Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 3Quantum Condensed Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ri...

Ridge regression is often the method of choice in ill–conditioned systems. A canonical form identifies regions in the parameter space where Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) is problematic. A curious but unrecognized property of ridge solutions emerges: Under spherical errors with or without moments, the relative concentrations of the canonical estimators reverse as the ridge scalar evolves, the est...

J. A. Sheikh, Y. Sun, and P. M. Walker Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Surrey, Guildford, GU2 5XH, England Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Bombay, 400 005, India Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 Physics Division, O...

[1] Global observations of mid-ocean ridge (MOR) bathymetry demonstrate an asymmetry in axial depth across ridge offsets that is correlated with the direction of ridge migration. Motivated by these observations, we have developed two-dimensional numerical models of asthenospheric flow and melting beneath a migrating MOR. The modification of the flow pattern produced by ridge migration leads to ...

Cross-spectral techniques are used to analyze the relationship between gravity and bathymetry at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise crests. The resulting transfer functions were used to study the nature of the isostatic mechanism operative at these ridge crests. The most satisfactory results were obtained for models in which the oceanic lithosphere is treated as a thin elastic pla...

Schaefer et al. [15] proposed a ridge logistic estimator in logistic regression model. In this paper a new estimator based on the ridge logistic estimator is introduced in logistic regression model and we call it as almost unbiased ridge logistic estimator. The performance of the new estimator over the ridge logistic estimator and the maximum likelihood estimator in scalar mean squared error cr...