This study investigated the bone-to-implant contact (BIC) and osteoconductive capacity (OC) of 6 different implant surfaces after early loading in humans. Two implants with different surfaces were placed side-by-side in the grafted (n= 5) and nongrafted (n = 1) sinuses of 3 volunteers. Single-tooth restorations were delivered 60 days later. After 6 months of full occlusal loading, implants were...

A Body Shape Index (ABSI) was specifically developed as a transformation of waist circumference (WC), statistically independent of BMI to better evaluate the relative contribution of WC to central obesity and clinical outcomes. Previous studies have found ABSI is associated with total mortality and cardiovascular events. However, no study has specifically evaluated the joint contribution of ABS...

When the control unit detects the diagnose input sequence, it sets the DCR (p, = 1 for all 0, and drives the architecture to the DTM by setting NIT = 0 and TID = 0. This switches the MUX driving To,, to the DCR output therefore driving the external output to a logic 1, to signal that the device is in DTM (see Fig. 2). The control unit then sets the DCR to the shift mode, starting a partition id...

BACKGROUND In patients on long-term continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), peritoneal dysfunction may occur due to loss of peritoneal mesothelial cells, peritoneal fibrosis and neovascularization. Lactate, long used as a buffer in peritoneal dialysates, has been substituted by bicarbonate in recent years. However, their effects on the peritoneum of CAPD patients are unknown. This stu...

The widely used model for evolutionary relationships is a bifurcating tree with all taxa/observations placed at the leaves. This is not appropriate if the taxa have been densely sampled across evolutionary time and may be in a direct ancestral relationship, or if there is not enough information to fully resolve all the branching points in the evolutionary tree. In this article, we present a fas...

OBJECTIVES In noisy, reverberant environments, older adults often find it difficult to process acoustic signals, possibly because their ability to differentiate reflected waves that belong to a source from those generated by other sources diminishes with age. Therefore, older adults may be less efficient than younger adults at parsing the auditory scene into its component sound sources. To pars...

Abstract In many cases, images contain sensitive information and patterns that require secure processing to avoid risk. It can be accessed by unauthorized users who illegally exploit them threaten the safety of people’s life property. Protecting privacies has quickly become one biggest obstacles prevent further exploration image data. this paper, we propose a novel privacy-preserving scheme pro...

Terahertz functional devices with high-Q factor play an important role in spectral sensing, security imaging, and wireless communication. The reported terahertz based on the electromagnetic induction transparency (EIT) effect cannot meet needs of practical applications due to low-Q factor. Therefore, increase Q-factor resonance, researchers introduced concept bound state continuum (BIC). In qua...

The bound states in the continuum (BIC) support anomalous resonances optical or terahertz band with a theoretically infinite quality factor. Therefore, it has great application prospects field of sensors. However, current regulation BIC mainly relies on asymmetry material structure, which requires high processing technology. structure can hardly be effectively adjusted once is formed. In this w...