BACKGROUND Gingivoperiosteoplasty can avoid secondary alveolar bone grafting in up to 60 percent of patients with a cleft. However, preoperative predictors of success have not been characterized. This study reports on the preoperative alveolar segment position most favorable for successful gingivoperiosteoplasty. METHODS The authors performed a single-institution, retrospective review of pati...

The study examines the alignment and effectiveness of strategic choice and strategic management accounting (SMA) system design configurations. Six configurations were derived empirically deploying a cluster analysis of data collected from a sample of 193 large Slovenian companies. The first four clusters appear to provide some support for the central configurational proposition that higher leve...

We study the effect of strain on the vertical and lateral self-organization of nanoscale patterns and stacked quantum dots during epitaxial growth. The computational approach is based on the level set method in combination with an atomistic strain code. Strain changes the energetics of microscopic parameters during growth, and thus determines the nucleation sites and the growth of islands and d...

Three-dimensional squirrel monkey eye movements were recorded during and immediately following rotation around an earth-vertical yaw axis (160 degrees/s steady state, 100 degrees/s2 acceleration and deceleration). To study interactions between the horizontal angular vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and head orientation, postrotatory VOR alignment was changed relative to gravity by tilting the head...

As a means of measuring progress towards fuel and emissions reduction targets, the United Kingdom Air Navigation Service Provider NATS developed the 3Di flight efficiency metric. In principle the 3Di score of a flight is calculated by comparing a flown trajectory to a theoretical fuel/CO2 optimum trajectory. In response to a Eurocontrol review of the metric, the 3Di score has been analysed usin...

Received: 20 October 2014 / Accepted: 15 November 2014 Abstract: An approach for determination of the best cutting parameters leading to maximum material removal rate in machining D2 (Die Steel) on vertical milling centre is used. The Response Surface Methodology technique is applied to obtain optimum values of considered parameters in machining D2 (Die Steel) with four flutes carbide end mill ...

The optimum pre-flight characteristics of the Hecht and handspring somersault vaults were determined using a two-segment simulation model. The model consisted of an arm segment and a body segment connected by a frictionless pin joint, simulating the vault from the Reuther board take-off through to landing. During horse contact, shoulder torque was set to zero in the model. Five independent pre-...

Synopsis Several researches have pointed out that optical illusions may occur when the horizontal curve is combined with a vertical curve. Crest and sag combinations can cause a significant different driver's behaviour compared to the behaviour adopted on the horizontal curves on flat grade. In particular the literature reports the hypothesis that horizontal curves appear sharper or flatter whe...

This paper addresses the alignment issue in the framework of exploitation of large bimultilingual corpora for translation purposes. A generic alignment scheme is proposed that can meet varying requirements of different applications. Depending on the level at which alignment is sought, appropriate surface linguistic information is invoked coupled with information about possible unit delimiters. ...

The local sequence alignment problem is the detection of similar subsequences in two given sequences of lengths n m. Unfortunately the common notion of local alignment suuers from some well-known anomalies which result from not taking into account the lengths of the aligned subsequences. We introduce the length restricted local alignment problem which includes as a constraint an upper limit T o...