introduction: complete adhesion of the impression materials to trays is important to prevent impression materials from being pulled away from trays during removed from the mouth and to ensure that the direction of polymerization shrinkage will be towards the tray. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of two retention features of custom trays (adhesive vs holes) on the dimensional a...

PURPOSE To determine the biometry of anterior segment dimensions of the human eye on both horizontal and vertical meridians with extended scan depth optical coherence tomography (OCT) during accommodation. METHODS Twenty pre-presbyopic volunteers, aged between 24 and 30, were recruited. The ocular anterior segment of each subject was imaged using an extended scan depth OCT under non- and 3.0 ...

Social-ecological fit has been a popular approach to assessing the connectedness between social and ecological systems in environmental governance. However, role of projects social-ecological yet be explicitly problematized conceptualized. Given centrality - i.e. temporally limited organizations that bring various actors into collaboration pursue clearly defined goals tasks governance, this is ...

The discovery of Berry curvature (BC) has spurred a tremendous surge research into various quantum phenomena such as the anomalous transport electrons and topological phases matter. In two-dimensional crystalline systems, conventional definition BC lacks in-plane components thus it cannot explain transverse along plane-normal direction. Here, we modify to newly provide in two dimensions, giving...

The associations between dimensions of the first cervical vertebra, atlas, and a representative set of craniofacial and postural variables were studied on cephalometric radiographs of a sample of 103 adult males aged 22-30 years, recorded in the natural head position (mirror position). Atlas morphology was expressed by nine variables, linear and angular craniofacial dimensions by 27 variables, ...

[1] The properties of equilibrated tropical convection are studied using a cloud‐resolving model with large‐scale dynamics parameterized by the weak temperature gradient (WTG) approximation. Model integrations are performed in both 2‐D and 3‐D geometries. The target profile toward which horizontal mean free tropospheric temperature is relaxed is held fixed, while sea surface temperature (SST) i...