Background. Acid etching prior to orthodontic bracket bonding may result in enamel wear or cracks following bracket removal. The manufacturer of Fuji Ortho LC glass-ionomer (GI) claims that it can bond brackets to wet unetched enamel. This study aimed to compare the bracket bond strength to etched and unetched enamel under dry and wet conditions. Methods. In this in vitro study, 60 intact premo...

Abstract— The doubly-fed induction machine used as a wind turbine generator has recently received a great attention from the industrial and scientific communities. The reason is twofold: first, this machine easily produces a fixed frequency voltage from the stator windings when the rotor is driven at variable speed; second, the excitation power electronics converter feeding the rotor windings n...

Usually, the characteristic values of a synchronous machine are obtained from a short-circuit test at no-load. This test requires substantial equipment and is therefore expensive, it implies risks and it can not be always carried out for levels of voltage higher than 50% to 60% of nominal voltage. This DC decay test is an interesting alternative since only light equipment is needed. It delivers...

The ortho-nitro effect was discovered in sulfa-Staudinger cycloadditions of ethoxycarbonylsulfene with linear imines. When an ortho-nitro group is present at the C-aryl substituents of linear imines, the sulfa-Staudinger cycloadditions deliver cis-β-sultams in considerable amounts, together with the predominant trans-β-sultams. In other cases, the above sulfa-Staudinger cycloadditions give rise...

Abstract Accurate collision-induced absorption profiles for H 2 –He pairs, in the rototranslational band of , are computed accounting full anisotropic interaction potential. The calculations time consuming and complicated compared to those pursued isotropic potential approximation. A machine learning approach is implemented order produce highly accurate data on a dense frequency grid, by combin...

The a- and b-type rotational transitions of the weakly bound complexes formed by molecular hydrogen and OCS, para-H2-OCS, ortho-H2-OCS, HD-OCS, para-D2-OCS, and ortho-D2-OCS, have been measured by Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy. All five species have ground rotational states with total rotational angular momentum J=0, regardless of whether the hydrogen rotational angular momentum is j...

Guidelines recommend thromboprophylaxis for at least 10 days to prevent venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing high-risk orthopedic surgery, such as total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Furthermore, the recently updated ACCP guidelines also recommend extending the duration of thromboprophylaxis for 28 to 35 days following THA or hip fracture surgery as the risk ...

Low voltage distribution networks have not been traditionally designed to accommodate the large-scale integration of decentralized photovoltaic (PV) generations. The bidirectional power flows in existing resulting from load demand and PV generation changes as well influence ambient temperature led variations increased leakage current through cable insulation. In this paper, a machine learning-b...

We develop a possibilistic semantic formalism for quantum phenomena from an operational perspective. This system is based on Chu duality between preparation processes and yes/no tests, the target space being three-valued set equipped with informational interpretation. A basic of axioms introduced states. suffices to constrain states be projective domain. The subset pure then characterized withi...