It is known that even if process information at macroscale is fully accessible and properly utilized in manufacturing, product and process performance may be still not sufficiently assured. This may be due to the influence of phenomena at finer scales, which are normally not measurable and thus unknown in operation. Besides, even if such information is available, how to integrate it across scal...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate mechanical properties of the orthodontic wires according to heat treatment environments and cooling methods. Four types of wires were heat-treated in air, argon and vacuum at 500◦C, for 6 min, and were then either cooled in the furnace or a water bath. Increases in microhardness, maximal strength, yield strength and Young’s modulus of the orthodontic wi...

Since the industrial revolution happened in the middle of 18th century, both the thermal equilibrium and ecological equilibrium of earth environment have been broken. The skyrocketing energy consumption and greenhouse gases emission are threatening the sustainable development of human beings. The only way out is to build up new energy structure. However, the new energy structure cannot be effec...

In this paper we develop a neural network which learns intermodal representations for fashion attributes to be utilized in a cross-modal search tool. Our neural network learns from organic e-commerce data, which is characterized by clean image material, but noisy and incomplete product descriptions. First, we experiment with techniques to segment ecommerce images and their product descriptions ...

Existing lexical resources have taxonomic structure related problems that negatively impact the results of domain-specific applications. This is the result of an approach that focuses on implementation and content issues rather than on questions of design, semantic cleanness and application usefulness. Although taxonomy structuring methodologies have been developed to correct some of these prob...

Chemical auxiliary substances (CAS) are essential for a successful disinfection and cleanness of the root canals, being used during the instrumentation and if necessary, as antimicrobial intracanal medicaments. Different CAS have been proposed and used, among which sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), chlorhexidine (CHX), 17% EDTA, citric acid, MTAD and 37% phosphoric acid solution. CHX has been used i...

Following the application for two new shopping centres in the city of Braga, a medium-size city located in the North region of Portugal, the purpose of this paper is to look for evidence of the possible impacts of those commercial structures on the retail sector of Braga. An overview of the literature allows us to conclude the strong relation between retail and cities and their town centres. Re...

Program Monday 08h30-09h30 G. Lusztig: On the cleanness of cuspidal character sheaves. 09h45-10h45 P. Achar: Derived Satake equivalence and geometric restriction to a Levi subgroup. 11h15-12h15 G. Williamson: Generators and relations for Soergel bimodules. Tuesday 08h30-09h30 O. Brunat: On semisimple classes in finite reductive groups. 09h45-10h45 R. Charney: Groups Associated to Random Graphs....

AIM The aim of this study is to evaluate postoperatively bowel symptoms of antegrade colon enema through appendicostomies in preschool children with anorectal malformation (ARM). METHOD 164 children with ARM operated on with posterior sagittal anorectal plasty were included. The malformations were classified according to Krickenbeck classification. Seventeen children in preschool age had an a...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has spread worldwide for over 2 years now. raises a significant threat to global health due its transmissibility and high pathogenicity. current standard detection method COVID-19, namely, reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT–PCR), is slow inaccurate help fight the pandemic. RT–PCR takes hours days report single test result false-negative rate. As r...