objective(s):glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness and it is related to oxidative stress based on numerous studies. glutathione s-transferases (gsts) are members of multigenic family, which have important role in cells as an antioxidant. in the present study, we examined the polymorphism of gstt1 and gstm1 deletion genotypes (t0m1, t1m0, and t0m0) in 100 glaucoma patients (41with pr...

Introduction: In orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning an accurate evaluation of sagittal jaw relationship is important. To assess the antero-posterior jaw discrepancy between maxilla and mandible, numerous angular and linear measurements have been in corporate so as to reach correct diagnosis. So the purpose of this study is to compare ANB angle, Wits appraisal, Beta angle and W angle u...

In orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning, an accurate antero-posterior measurement of jaw relationships is critically important. Previously described angular and linear measurements can be inaccurate because of their dependency on various factors. The purpose of this study was to introduce a new cephalometric measurement, named the W angle, to assess the sagittal relationship between max...

The charge or barion number balance function in the relative azimuthal angle of a pair of particles emitted in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is studied. The ππ and pp̄ balance functions are computed using thermal models with two different set of parameters, corresponding to a large freeze-out temperature and a moderate transverse flow or a small temperature and a large transverse flow. ...

Here we adjust traditional definitions of atmospheric time constant and isoplanatic angle to make them more useful for adaptive optics and interferometry and, at the same time, easier to measure.

Vector data containing direction and magnitude information other than position information is different from common point data only containing position information. Those general similarity measures for point data such as Euclidean distance are not suitable for vector data. Thus, a novel measure must be proposed to estimate the similarity between vectors. The similarity measure defined in this ...

Mobile manipulators operating in eld environments will be required to perform tasks on uneven terrain which may cause the system to approach, or achieve, a dangerous tipover instability. To avoid tipover in an automatic system, or to provide a human operator with an indication of proximity to tipover, it is necessary to de ne a measure of stability margin. This work presents a new tipover stabi...

This study examined the reliability and validity of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) for measuring orientation angle. An IMU was mounted onto a goniometer and moved through 0-90° with data collected at 10° increments. The process was repeated 10 times for all 3 axes. Reliability was measured via a typical error (TE) analysis from the 10 repeated trials. Validity was determined via a Pearson c...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to test the possible orthopedic effects of cervical headgear on the cranial base and maxilla. STUDY DESIGN a sample consisting of 79 subjects with skeletal class II malocclusion was divided into two groups. The experimental group was made up of 41 patients all treated with cervical headgear. The control group included a total of 38 non-treated patients. Eac...

OBJECTIVE To determine the number of ultrasound examinations required to train sonographers to accurately measure the fetal frontomaxillary facial (FMF) angle at 11-13 weeks of gestation. METHODS Eight sonographers accredited for nuchal translucency thickness (NT) measurement (and with different levels of experience) were trained to measure the fetal FMF angle using specially acquired three-d...