PURPOSE The objective of this study was to compare torques applied by new and used manual torque devices for Morse-taper implants. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifteen ITI manual torque devices were tested. Those in group 1 (n = 5) were new (ie, never used), those in group 2 (n = 5) had been used 50 to 200 times, and those in group 3 (n = 5) had been used 500 to 1,000 times. The torques applied by ea...

The amygdala is clearly implicated in the processing of biologically relevant stimuli, particularly those that can lead to a state of fear. A new study by Herry, Bach and colleagues using both mouse and human subjects seemingly throws a wrench in the spokes by demonstrating that the amygdala is sensitive to non-biologically relevant stimuli (i.e. tones) when they occur in an unpredictable fashi...

A growing number of social scientists fear that marriage may be on the rocks and few doubt that matrimony, as we have known it, has undergone a wrenching period of change in the past several decades. Andrew Cherlin, a leading sociologist of the family, speaks of "the de-institutionalization of marriage," conceding a point to conservative commentators who have argued that marriage and the family...

This article analyzes the fallacy of wrenching from context, using the dialectical notionsof commitment and implicature as tools. The data, a set of key examples, is used tosharpen the conceptual borderlines around the related fallacies of straw man, accent,misquotation, and neglect of qualifications. According to the analysis, the maincharacteristics of wrenching from context a...

The central purpose of this inquiry is to analyze the fallacy of wrenching from context. Logic textbooks and other accounts briefly explain this manipulative technique as a linguistic distortion of the other party’s thesis. It is a fallacy in which there are two or more parties engaged in argumentation and one has interpreted or represented the position of another in an improper way that has fa...

PLANAR CABLE-DIRECT-DRIVEN ROBOTS: DESIGN FOR WRENCH EXERTION Robert L. Williams II Department of Mechanical Engineering Ohio University Athens, Ohio Paolo Gallina Dipartimento di Innovazione Meccanica e Gestionale University of Padova Padova, Italy Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems Vol. 35, pp. 203-219 2002