Background. Any decrease in friction between orthodontic wire and bracket can accelerate tooth movement in the sliding technique and result in better control of anchorage. This study was carried out to evaluate frictional forces by coating orthodontic wires and porcelain brackets with zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO). Methods . In this in vitro study, we evaluated a combination of 120 samples of ...

A clinical trial was carried out to evaluate and compare the clinical performance of a visible light-cured material with a chemically cured adhesive. This was used in combination with two types of bracket base. Fifty-two patients entered the trial and 542 bracket bases were placed. The incidence and site of bond failure were recorded. The overall failure rate for the light-cured material in com...

After 20 months of clinical testing and more than 600 bonded arches, brief interim conclusions can be drawn on treatment with a new lingual bracket system, one that differs fundamentally from conventional appliances in both design and manufacture. The demand for maximum individuality is met by using state-of-the-art computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing technology to fuse the 2 nor...

Abstract In order to explore the intracranial pressure response under different sensor fixation modes, experimental study on measurement based physical head surrogate shock wave is carried out. The influence of methods was analyzed. results show that mode has little test results. deviation between peak and impulse only 3.62% 4.54% in two modes hot melt supporting free suspension. value metal su...

A new method to derive presentations of skein modules is developed. For the case of homotopy skein modules it will be shown how the topology of a 3-manifold is reflected in the structure of the module. The freeness problem for q-homotopy skein modules is solved, and a natural skein module related to linking numbers is computed.

We study the Bäcklund symmetry for the Moyal Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) hierarchy based on the Kuperschmidt-Wilson Theorem associated with second Gelfand-Dickey structure with respect to the Moyal bracket, which generalizes the result of Adler for the ordinary KdV. PACS: 02.30.Ik, 11.10.Ef

Working within the Moyal algebra, we define an index for Laurent series of smooth complex matrix-valued functions of 2d real variables. For d = 1, we prove that the index of a Laurent series is equal to a multiple of the winding number of its initial term’s determinant. For d > 1, under certain conditions, we prove that the index of a Laurent series depends only upon its initial term’s behaviou...

We build a differential calculus for subalgebras of the Moyal algebra on R4 starting from a redundant differential calculus on the Moyal algebra, which is suitable for reduction. In some cases we find a frame of 1-forms which allows to realize the complex of forms as a tensor product of the noncommutative subalgebras with the external algebra Λ. MSC: 46L87;

2 Preliminaries 5 2.1 The ring R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 The algebra A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Algebra A and (1+1)-dimensional cobordisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4 Kauffman bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

We extend the quasi-tree expansion of A. Champanerkar, I. Kofman, and N. Stoltzfus to not necessarily orientable ribbon graphs. We study the duality properties of the Bollobás-Riordan polynomial in terms of this expansion. As a corollary, we get a “connected state” expansion of the Kauffman bracket of virtual link diagrams. Our proofs use extensively the partial duality of S. Chmutov.