PURPOSE The objective of this study was to compare the effect of phosphoric acid and a self-etching adhesive on the short and long-term bond strength of a light-curing sealant to unground primary and permanent enamel. METHODS A light-curing resin sealant (Delton Light Curing Pit & Fissure Sealant-CLEAR) was bonded to the flattest, peripheral surface of 40 primary and 40 permanent molars follo...

this study examined the effects of aural and written prompts under two planning conditions (i.e. pre-task planning and no planning) on complexity, accuracy, and fluency of test takers' writing production. forty learners in an english institute, who had already been classified as intermediate according to the oxford placement test, were assigned to two planning conditions (i.e. no planning and p...

We present stationary models of protostellar population  (Pop , for short) accretion discs, compare them to Pop  discs, and investigate the influence of the different chemical compositions on the occurence of gravitational, thermal and thermal-viscous instabilities in the discs. In particular in the cooler regions, we find major differences between Pop  and Pop  discs, both in the st...

This research was done in order to describe the content of proposed lyrics’ concepts in permissible pop music based on published audio works’ list of music publication office in 2009 among 200 albums of music office published audio works,  the 10 number of pop singers were randomly selected and the lyrics’ concept of 70 music were also investigated. In the process of data analysis in the first ...

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

Package-oriented programming (POP) is a promising approach to component-based software design. POP treats suites of massmarket application packages as component libraries. Their standardized architectures, programmability, interoperability, rich orthogonal functions, and low cost make them attractive candidates as components. However, they also have characteristics that make it hard and risky t...

phase change memory devices Kyle L. Grosse, Eric Pop, and William P. King Deptartment of Mechanical Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Ur...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the ultrastructure and content of collagen in uterosacral ligaments and paraurethral tissues in patients with pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI), analyzing the association between POP and collagen dysfunction. The study comprised three groups: Control, POP and POP with SUI (n=30 per group). Histological characteristi...

Turkey is located in an important geographical location, in terms of the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, linking Asia and Europe. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is one of the endemic diseases in a Turkey and according to the Ministry Health of Turkey, 45% of CL patients originate from Şanlıurfa province located in southeastern Turkey. Herein, the epidemiological status of CL, caused by L. ...