the aim of this randomized clinical study was to investigate the effectiveness of acetaminophen 650 mg or liquefied ibuprofen 400 mg in pain control of orthodontic patients during separation with an elastic separator. a total of 101 patients with specific inclusion criteria were divided randomly into three groups (acetaminophen, liquefied ibuprofen, and placebo). they were instructed to take th...

Title of dissertation: ALGORITHMS FOR DATA PLACEMENT, RECONFIGURATION AND MONITORING IN STORAGE NETWORKS Srinivas Raaghav Kashyap Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Samir Khuller Department of Computer Science In this thesis we address three problems related to self-management of storage networks data placement, data reconfiguration and data monitoring. Examples of s...

background & aim: saffron (crocus sativus l.) formerly was important in turkey. saffron cultivation has been decreased and it is now only cultivated in three villages in this country. it is triploid and exclusively propagated in a vegetative way by corms. in turkey, saffron is traditionally planted by placing corms in rows randomly without grading or sorting; which results in placement of c...

XML data storage is a critical issue due to the so called I O bottleneck problem emerged in nowdays computer systems This paper presents an object based XML data representation model towards e ec tive XML data placement The proposed representation of XML docu ments is analysed in a two level scheme the external level is based on the structure of a browsing graph whereas the internal level is su...

Data from the ALEKS-based placement program at the University of Illinois is presented visually in several ways. The placement exam (an ALEKS assessment) contains precise item-specific information and the data show many interesting properties of the student populations of the placement courses, which include Precalculus, Calculus, and Business Calculus, as well as two courses outside of the pla...