The aim of this study was to investigate, over a period of approximately 3 years, the reactions to orthodontic loading of a type V titanium miniscrew. In this retrospective study, conducted in a private practice, the records of 300 miniscrews inserted in 132 consecutive patients (80 females, 60.6 percent) by the same surgeon were evaluated. The mean age of the patients was 23.2 years. Three typ...

Nine healthy volunteers were studied on the seventh day of dosing at 21:00 h with nizatidine 150 mg (N 150), nizatidine 300 mg (N 300), ranitidine 300 mg (R 300), or placebo, given in a predetermined random order. The double-blind 24 hour studies, using the Royal Free Hospital standard protocol, simultaneously measured intragastric acidity and plasma gastrin concentration. Compared with placebo...

The need for clean, safe, and unpolluted water has recently become an important issue. Industrial processes such as petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pulp, paper industries emit organic products in water, phenols, which are extremely toxic to aquatic life. severe operating conditions, high pressure temperature, of the conventional chemical oxidation phenols cost a lot limited extensive application...

It was determined that degradation of pasture soils in semi-desert and arid field landscapes the Kur depression intensified under condition modern climate changes. Temperature rose 1,2°C, precipitations amount 65,7 mm 1995–2015 comparison with 1970–1994. These changes are resulted landscape desertification degradation. Main criteria were adopted for assessment, plant cover degradation, water er...

Abstract In this study, the heat transfer characteristics of an improved absorber tube parabolic trough solar collector LS-2 are investigated using ANSYS software. Oil syltherm 800 type is used as a fluid. Three types tubes tested; first smooth and others finned tubes. One rough cases rectangular cross-section fins with rounding at fin base other does not have base. Simulations performed thickn...

The purpose of this presentation is to outline the Museum Multimedia (MM) experience in Russia. I am quite not sure wether all my colleagues experts and museum community in West Europe and America are intimately familiar with Russian experience in this sphere and I am pleased to have this opportunity to fill the gap. I will mainly focus on the general picture for some more reports with detailed...

AIM To measure optic nerve sheath diameters (ONSD) in different locations by computer tomography (CT) and to recommend the best location for cases when ONSD is used for intracranial pressure monitoring. METHODS In a prospective cohort study, CT data of 300 healthy adults were analyzed (600 eyes). In all cases, the CT investigation was performed at the Emergency Department because of the vario...