This article describes the recent research progress in the field of crystalline metal-chalcogenide superlatticescontaining tetrahedron-shaped nanoclusters as building units. With the development of new synthetic strategies and structuralconcepts, new clusters that are members of three series of tetrahedral clusters (i.e., supertetrahedral clusters, pentasupertetrahedralclusters, and...

Patients with dysferlinopathy (11 limb girdle muscular dystrophy [LGMD]-2B and 16 Miyoshi myopathy) were asked to stand with knees slightly bent so that the quadriceps muscles were in moderate action. The anterolateral aspect of thighs was observed for any abnormal bulge. Nineteen patients (7 LGMD-2B and 12 Miyoshi myopathy) showed asymmetric diamond shaped bulges with wasting of muscles above ...

Background/Purpose. Kimura's diamond-shaped-duodenoduodenostomy (DSD) is a known technique for the correction of congenital intrinsic duodenal obstruction. We present a modification of the technique and review the advantages of this new technique. Methods. From 1992 to 2006, 14 newborns were treated for duodenal atresia. We inverted the direction of the duodenal incisions: a longitudinal incisi...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the apical foramen morphology and the length of merged canal at the apex in type II root canal system. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included intact extracted maxillary and mandibular human premolars (n = 20) with fully formed roots without any visible signs of external resorption. The root segments were obtained ...

Data describing entities with locations that are points on a sphere are described as spherically mapped. Several data structures designed for spherically mapped data have been developed. One of them, known as Hierarchical Equal Area iso-Latitude Pixelization (HEALPix), partitions the sphere into twelve diamond-shaped equal-area base cells and then recursively subdivides each cell into four diam...

In this paper, circuit implementation of diamond-shaped type-2 membership function in CMOS technology is presented. Designing of mixed analog/digital circuits provides a flexible configuration as well as the highly accurate performance, where analog circuits are employed to realize required functions, while the programmable units implemented using digital circuits. The current-mode approach is ...