Objective: To analyze and compare the pharyngeal airway dimensions of Bilateral Complete Cleft Lip and Palate (BCCLP), Unilateral Complete Cleft Lip and Palate (UCCLP) and Class I patients in different age groups. Design: Cross-sectional study of cephalometric data. Materials and Methods: The lateral cephalometric films of 76 patients were divided into two main groups according to chronological...

The relationship between craniofacial morphology and respiratory function has been studied extensively since the beginning of 20th century ( Angle, 1907 ). Some authors claim that patients with de cient respiratory functions present with lip incompetency, increased anterior face height, maxillary constriction, protruded maxillary incisors with Class II molar relationship, open bite , and narro...

We introduce the Open-source Fixed-point Model Checker OFMC for symbolic security protocol analysis, which extends the Onthe-fly Model Checker (the previous OFMC). The native input language of OFMC is the AVISPA Intermediate Format IF. OFMC also supports AnB, a new Alice-and-Bob-style language that extends previous similar languages with support for algebraic properties of cryptographic operato...

The aim of this study was to verify the relationship between the inclination of the coronoid process of the mandible, and electromyographic activity of the anterior part of the temporal muscle in skeletal Class I and II individuals. Forty-seven volunteers (mean age 24.5 +/- 3.9 years) were subdivided into two groups, according to angle ANB: Class I (n = 25) and II (n = 22). Two radiographic exa...

In distributed transactional systems, an Atomic Commitment Protocol (ACP) is used to ensure the atomicity of distributed transactions even in the presence of failures. An ACP is said to be non-blocking if it allows correct participants to decide on the transaction despite the failure of others. Several non-blocking protocols have been proposed in the literature. However, none of these protocols...

INTRODUCTION Due to the lack of studies that distinguish between dentoalveolar and basal changes caused by the Thurow appliance, this clinical study, carried out by the School of Dentistry--State University of São Paulo/Araraquara, aimed at assessing the dental and skeletal changes induced by modified Thurow appliance. METHODS The sample included an experimental group comprising 13 subjects a...

The aim of this study was to assess and compare the dimensions of Sella Turcica in 90 subjects grouped as Group A (Skeletal Class I: ANB 0-4°, Wits value -1to 0.5 mm)1.4 and Group B (Skeletal Class II: ANB>4°, Wits value >0.5 mm) aged 14-30 years each having 45 subjects. For Group A Width (W) of Sella Turcica10 is found to be 15.33 mm + 2.77 S.D, Depth (D) 6.43 mm + 1.45 S.D, Area (A) 66.05 mm2...

Texture-based analysis of images is a very common and much discussed issue in the fields of computer vision and image processing. Several methods have already been proposed to codify texture micro-patterns (texlets) in images. Most of these methods perform well when a given image is noise-free, but real world images contain different types of signal-independent as well as signal-dependent noise...

The telencephalon is formed in the most anterior part of the central nervous system (CNS) and is organised into ventral subpallial and dorsal pallial domains. In mice, it has been demonstrated that Fgf signalling has an important role in induction and patterning of the telencephalon. However, the precise role of Fgf signalling is still unclear, owing to overlapping functions of Fgf family genes...

The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship between the balance of upperand lower-lip-closing forces (LCF) during pursing-like lip-closing and lateral craniofacial morphology. Sixty-two females with malocclusion were subjected to lateral cephalography and divided into 3 groups (skeletal Classes I, II and III) by the value of ANB. The LCF was measured using a multidirectional LCF measu...