Alveolar ridge distraction is a recent and promising technique for ridge augmentation. Since 1997, a new distraction system incorporating a distraction implant has been in use. It can be used for alveolar ridge distraction and is not removed from the alveolar ridge. Upon completion of the distraction, it remains in the alveolar process for later prosthetic treatment. Thirty-five patients were t...

Ridge detection in digital imagery, unlike edge detection, is an area that has received relatively little attention. Ridges are long, narrow structures that are perceptibly brighter than the background. Examples of ridges include roads in aerial images and vessels in medical images. The ability to rapidly and accurately label ridge pixels in a digital image is an important first step in many co...

Matthias Mayr,1,* Gonzalo Alvarez,2 Adriana Moreo,3,4 and Elbio Dagotto3,4 1Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany 2Computer Science & Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 3Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Univ...

J. M. Allmond,1 A. E. Stuchbery,2 B. A. Brown,3,4 J. R. Beene,5 A. Galindo-Uribarri,5,6 C. J. Gross,5 J. F. Liang,5 E. Padilla-Rodal,7 D. C. Radford,5 R. L. Varner,5 A. Ayres,6 J. C. Batchelder,8 A. Bey,6 C. R. Bingham,5,6 M. E. Howard,9 K. L. Jones,6 B. Manning,9 P. E. Mueller,5 C. D. Nesaraja,5 S. D. Pain,5 W. A. Peters,10 A. Ratkiewicz,9 K. T. Schmitt,5,6,* D. Shapira,5 M. S. Smith,5 N. J. S...

To date, numerous genetic variants have been identified as associated with diverse phenotypic traits. However, identified associations generally explain only a small proportion of trait heritability and the predictive power of models incorporating only known-associated variants has been small. Multiple regression is a popular framework in which to consider the joint effect of many genetic varia...

An isopach map made from seismic reflection and refraction data in the Bay of Bengal shows two prominent N-S trending features in the basement topography. One is the northernmost portion of the Ninetyeast Ridge which is totally buried by sediments north of 10øN. The other buried ridge trends roughly N-S for 1400 km at 85øE to the latitude of Sri Lanka and then curves toward the west. It has bas...

Moored current, temperature, and conductivity measurements are used to study the temporal variability of M2 internal tide generation above the Kaena Ridge, between the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai. The energy conversion from the barotropic to baroclinic tide measured near the ridge crest varies by a factor of 2 over the 6-month mooring deployment (0.5–1.1 W m). The energy flux measured ju...

An evaluation of reduced-size particle powdering methods for the recovery of usable fingermark ridge detail from elephant ivory is presented herein for the first time as a practical and cost-effective tool in forensic analysis. Of two reduced-size powder material types tested, powders with particle sizes ≤ 40 μm offered better chances of recovering ridge detail from unpolished ivory in comparis...