The tea bag method provides a replicable and standardized to study the effect of environmental variables on decomposition standard litter, which enables comparison organic matter rates large scale. However, it remains uncertain whether in response wetness is representative that local litters. We performed incubation experiments examine soil water becomes inhibitory at higher contents, as case l...

Previous studies have shown that the size of the foil mesh and surface area of the bracket base correlated to bond strength to tooth enamel. The purpose of this study was to investigate the in vitro shear bond strength (SBS) of orthodontic brackets with 80 and 100 gauge mesh bases as well as mini and standard size bases. Eighty extracted human premolar teeth were randomly allocated into four gr...

We present a new meshing algorithm for the plane, Overlay Stitch Meshing (OSM), accepting as input an arbitrary Planar Straight Line Graph and producing a triangulation with all angles smaller than 170◦. The output triangulation has competitive size with any optimal size mesh having equally bounded largest angle. The competitive ratio is O(log(L/s)) where L and s are respectively the largest an...

We give two, new upper bounds for oblivious permutation routing on the mesh networks: Let N be the total number of processors in each mesh. One is an O(N) algorithm on the two-dimensional, √ N × √ N mesh with constant queue-size. This is the first algorithm which improves substantially the trivial O(N) bound for oblivious routing in the mesh networks with constant queue-size. The other is a 1.1...

INTRODUCTION In laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair the inguinal region is approached and hernia repair performed from the interior side instead of the classical open external access. Exploration and placement of staplers in the internal inguinal region during laparoscopic hernia repair may sever different anatomical structures, or induce specific complications such as nerve entrapment, neuralg...

The motion planning problem for an object with two degrees of freedom moving in the plane can be stated as follows: Given a set of polygonal obstacles in the plane, and a two-dimensional mobile object B with two degrees of freedom, determine if it is possible to move B from a start position to a final position while avoiding the obstacles. If so, plan a path for such a motion. Techniques from c...

Codend selection of winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) in 76-127 mm mesh codends was examined from experiments conducted in Long Island Sound during the spring of 1986-87. The results show a slightly larger size at selection than was found in earlier work as indicated by the selection factor, 2.31 in the present study compared with 2.2 and 2.24 from previous studies. Diamond mesh w...