PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to decide the most appropriate point on tragus to be used as a reference point at time of marking ala tragus line while establishing occlusal plane. MATERIALS AND METHODS THE DATA WAS COLLECTED IN TWO GROUPS OF SUBJECTS: 1) Dentulous 2) Edentulous group having sample size of 30 for each group with equal gender distribution (15 males, 15 females each). Dow...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between mastication and head posture using foods with different degrees of hardness. A total of 12 healthy, dentulous volunteers participated in the study. Each participant was required to chew two types of gummy candy with two levels of hardness while sitting upright. Measurements were conducted using an optoelectric jaw-trac...

Neocortical precursor cells undergo symmetric and asymmetric divisions while producing large numbers of diverse cortical cell types. In Drosophila, cleavage plane orientation dictates the inheritance of fate-determinants and the symmetry of newborn daughter cells during neuroblast cell divisions. One model for predicting daughter cell fate in the mammalian neocortex is also based on cleavage pl...

Quick phases (QPs) induced by horizontal and vertical sinusoidal vestibular stimulations were studied in rabbits, cats, and humans. In all the animals, large and frequent horizontal QPs were observed following yaw stimulation in prone position. By contrast, QPs were almost absent during roll stimulation in rabbits, and they were small and oblique during pitch stimulation in cats and humans. As ...

background: different factors such as impression techniques and materials can affect the passive fi t between the superstructure and implant. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of different impression materials and techniques on the dimensional accuracy of implant defi nitive casts. materials and methods: four internal hex implants (biohorizons ø4 mm) were placed on a metal maxil...

Previous planar models of the downswing in golf have suggested that upper limb segments (left shoulder girdle and left arm) move in a consistent fixed plane and that the clubhead also moves only in this plane. This study sought to examine these assumptions. Three-dimensional kinematic analysis of seven right-handed golfers of various abilities (handicap 0- 15) was used to define a plane (named ...

This paper is concerned with the defuzzification of the discretised generalised type-2 fuzzy set. In 2008 Liu proposed the α-Plane Representation — a decomposition of the generalised type-2 set into horizontal slices termed ‘α-planes’. An α-plane is akin to an interval type-2 fuzzy set. The α-Plane Representation must be used in conjunction with an interval defuzzification method: The three mai...

A plane graph is a planar graph with a fixed embedding in the plane. In a rectangular drawing of a plane graph, each vertex is drawn as a point, each edge is drawn as a horizontal or vertical line segment, and each face is drawn as a rectangle. A planar graph is said to have a rectangular drawing if at least one of its plane embeddings has a rectangular drawing. In this paper we give a linear-t...

Consider two absolutely continuous probability measures in the plane. A subdivision of the plane into k ≥ 2 regions is equitable if every region has weight 1/k in each measure. We show that, for any two probability measures in the plane and any integer k ≥ 2, there exists an equitable subdivision of the plane into k regions using at most k − 1 horizontal segments and at most k − 1 vertical segm...