Materials and Methods: Class V cavities were prepared on 20 extracted mandibular molars. The cavities in the experimental groups were pre-treated with a scrub of cavity disinfectants followed by application of bonding agent. Preparations without cavity disinfectants served as control. After the cavities were restored with resin composite (G-Aenial Universal Flo), the specimens were subjected to...

We present our experimental demonstration of controlling the cavity output intensity of one laser beam with the intensity of another laser beam in a composite system consisting of a collection of three-level ?-type rubidium atoms and an optical ring cavity. When the intensity of the controlling beam is modulated with a square waveform, the cavity output power switches on and off (with a distinc...

The suitability of recently demonstrated high quality factor (Q), ultra-small mode volume (Veff) graded square lattice photonic crystal microcavities for cavity QED experiments is discussed. In addition to the basic importance of the Q and Veff of such cavities, other issues of both practical and fundamental relevance are considered. Included amongst these are the robustness of the cavity’s per...

Yeasts are an increasingly common cause of nosocomial bloodstream infections. Methods for their detection are many; controlled comparisons are few. The vented FAN aerobic blood culture medium has been shown to be superior to the standard BacT/ALERT aerobic medium for the detection of fungemia as well as bacteremia. The BACTEC selective fungal medium (FM) (BD Biosciences, Sparks, Md.) allowed de...

Introduction A frictional fitting crown is in intimate contact with the tooth whereas a passive fitting crown has more spaces and does not resist a vertical withdrawing force. The space between the tooth and the crown has been termed the precementation space.' lt is the size of this precementation space and the technique of creating iP5 that greatly influence the seating of a crown during cemen...

Our recent efforts focusing on improving the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) are introduced, including an incompressible LB model without compressible effect, a flexible thermal LBM with simple structure for Bousinesq fluids, and a robust boundary scheme. We use them to simulate the lid-driven cavity flow at Reynolds numbers 5000–50000, the natural convection due to internal heat generation in a...

We report a novel external cavity laser diode (lambda= 1.5 mum). An intra-cavity liquid crystal pixel mirror allows digitally tuning of the laser wavelength to more than 40 wavelength channels of 100 GHz spacing according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) grid. Laser wavelength can further be fine-tuned by varying the driving voltages applied to an intra-cavity planar nematic l...

Viscoelastic flow in a square cavity is studied in detail for the FENE-CR model with a given value of extensibility. A finite volume method was employed to predict both the steady flows resulting from movement of the top cavity wall and also the recoil flows that follow the cessation of that lid-wall motion, when the fluid possesses viscoelastic properties. It is shown that this recoil flow can...