A relationship between the duration of orthodontic treatment and the exact position of palatally impacted canines before treatment was studied in panoramic radiographs (OPG). Material and Method: Sixty-seven palatally impacted canines were measured in 54 OPGs prior to treatment. The measured parameters were: vertical distance of the canine crown tip to the occlusal plane, inclination of palatal...

In this in vitro study, 2 implants were embedded in the interforaminal region of an acrylic model. Two kinds of retention mechanisms were used to construct complete overdentures: ball type and direct abutment (Locator). The ball-type retention mechanism models included 3 different collar heights (1, 2, and 3 mm) with 15 mm occlusal plane height, and 3 different occlusal plane heights (9, 12, an...

Objectives: 1.To investigate the relationship between nasal morphology in relation to sagittal and vertical maxillary skeletal pattern and 2.To know the relationship between the degree of upturn of the nose and the inclination of the palatal plane. Materials and Methods: Pretreatment lateral cephalograms of 60 adults of age 18-27 years with no previous history of trauma, surgical intervention, ...

In a variety of species, the refractive state of the eye differs in different parts of the visual field (VF) with greater myopia in the region that views the ground ("lower field myopia"). We studied the refraction and eye shape of the normal guinea pig eye to determine what feature(s) underlie this visual adaptation. Guinea pigs (n=67) were either newborn or raised under incandescent light unt...

We present an electrostatic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonant scanner with large out-of-plane translational stroke for fast axial-scanning in a multi-photon microscope system for real-time vertical cross-sectional imaging. The scanner has a compact footprint with dimensions of 2.1 mm × 2.1 mm × 0.44 mm, and employs a novel lever-based compliant mechanism to enable large vertical di...

The caudal aspect of the parabrachial (PBN) and Kölliker-Fuse (KF) nuclei receive vestibular nuclear and visceral afferent information and are connected reciprocally with the spinal cord, hypothalamus, amygdala, and limbic cortex. Hence, they may be important sites of vestibulo-visceral integration, particularly for the development of affective responses to gravitoinertial challenges. Extracell...

An IC-plane graph is a topological graph where every edge is crossed at most once and no two crossed edges share a vertex. We show that every IC-plane graph has a visibility drawing where every vertex is of the form { , , , }, and every edge is either a horizontal or vertical segment. As a byproduct of our drawing technique, we prove that every IC-plane graph has a RAC drawing in quadratic area...

An orthogonal drawing of a plane graph G is a drawing of G in which each edge is drawn as a sequence of alternate horizontal and vertical line segments. In this paper we give a linear-time algorithm to find an orthogonal drawing of a given 3-connected cubic plane graph with the minimum number of bends. The best known algorithm takes time O(nT/4o~/I'd'~) for any plane graph of n vertices.

An orthogonal drawing of a plane graph G is a drawing of G in which each edge is drawn as a sequence of alternate horizontal and vertical line segments. In this paper we give a linear-time algorithm to find an orthogonal drawing of a given 3-connected cubic plane graph with the minimum number of bends. The best previously known algorithm takes time O(n √ log n) for any plane graph with n vertices.

It is proposed that direct electron transfer is dependent on the orientation of the heme plane in cytochrome c (cyt c) assembled on electrode surfaces. Orientation with the heme plane in cyt c parallel to the gold electrode surface favors the direct electron transfer, while vertical orientation of the heme plane makes the direct electron transfer difficult. A preferable electron transport pathw...