Introdouction: It is important for the clinician to be aware regarding the necessary thickness of materials used as intra-orifice coronal barriers to prevent microleakage. The purpose of this in vitro study was to compare coronal microleakage of three different thicknesses of white and gray Angelus mineral trioxide aggregate (WAMTA, GAMTA). Materials and methods: A total of 66 canals of extrac...

The effect of atmospheric aerosols and regional haze from air pollution on the yields of rice and winter wheat grown in China is assessed. The assessment is based on estimates of aerosol optical depths over China, the effect of these optical depths on the solar irradiance reaching the earth's surface, and the response of rice and winter wheat grown in Nanjing to the change in solar irradiance. ...

This research aims to study jet downstream scour model under the influence of changes of water level. It also studies and analyzes different parameters and components of diffusion of submerged jet flow in an acceptor fluid and scour hole dimensions. To achieve the objectives, a physical model was made in proportion to the research title. With the Froude number increasing in a nozzle discharge, ...

Light scattering by zooplankton was investigated as a major factor undermining transparency camouflage in these pelagic animals. Zooplankton of differing transparencies--including the hyperiid amphipod Anchylomera blossevillei, an unknown gammarid amphipod species, the brine shrimp Artemia salina, the euphausiid shrimp Euphausia diomedeae, the isopod Gnathia sp., the copepods Pontella karachien...

What are the advantages and disadvantages of spatially stacked (i.e., when information sources are presented side-by-side) versus distributed (i.e., when information sources are sitting on top of one another with only the top source fully visible) organizations of information? We introduce a new theoretical decomposition of these advantages and disadvantages (information internalization, inform...

The solution structure of the hairpin formed by d(CGCGTTGTTCGCG) has been examined in detail by a wide variety of NMR techniques. The hairpin was characterized by proton NMR to obtain interproton distances and torsion angle information. An energy-minimized model was constructed that is consistent with these data. The hairpin consists of a B-DNA stem of four C-G base pairs and a loop region cons...

A probe-fed circularly polarized 3-layer stacked patch antenna is presented and simulated by using Commercial Ansoft High Frequency Structure Simulator. The design consists of three patches and three substrates. The lower and middle patches are of square-shaped where as the upper patch is of triangular-shaped. One slot is inserted in the lower layer, two slots are inserted in the middle layer a...