for management of a symptomatic maxillary lateral incisor with dull pain on chewing, suppurative sinus tract, defective metal-ceramic crown and iatrogenic internal root resorption, an interdisciplinary approach was taken. two-visit nonsurgical treatment with calcium-enriched mixture (cem) cement, replacement of metal-ceramic crown with all-ceramic crown and corrective periodontal plastic surger...

introduction: the aim of this randomized controlled trial was to compare the radiographic and clinical success rates of direct pulp capping (dpc) using proroot mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) or calcium enriched mixture (cem). methods and materials: a total of 42 symptom-free carious vital primary molars (21 pairs) were selected in this split mouth trial and randomly pulpotomized in two experi...

in order to increase the efficiency of the conveyance of the granular solids, a new experimental set-up is designed. the test rig has longitudinal trapezoidal slots in its conveying pipes. through experimentation, a correlation for friction factor in terms of solid mass flow rate, fluid flow rate and froude number is presented. it is shown that the mixture friction factor for pipes with inner t...

one of the common methods to cure unsaturated polyester resins is to use dual initiators. in order to produce an appropriate composite, it is necessary to know the effect of dual initiators on curing behavior. in this paper the effect of benzoyl peroxide, bpo, and tertiary butyl perbenzoate, tbpb, and their mixtures on thermal curing of an unsaturated polyester resin have been investigated. bpo...

active carbons were produced from bagasse, millet and sorghum straws by chemical activation with h3po4. carbon precursors with particle size of 1180 î¼m were used, in order to overcome difficulties caused by low density and high ash content. the influence of preparation conditions (temperature, residence time, and acid impregnation ratio) on the yield of the active carbons was examined. the imp...

Nonnative speech recognition is becoming more and more important as many speech applications are deployed world wide. Meanwhile, due to the large population of nonnative speakers, speaker adaptation remains the most practical way for providing high performance speech services. Subspace Gaussian Mixture Model (SGMM) has recently been shown to yield superior performance on various native speech r...

In developing speech recognition based services for any task domain, it is necessary to account for the support of an increasing number of languages over the life of the service. This paper considers a small vocabulary speech recognition task in multiple Indian languages. To configure a multi-lingual system in this task domain, an experimental study is presented using data from two linguistical...

We propose an algorithm for nonparametric estimation for finite mixtures of multivariate random vectors that is not, but that strongly resembles, a true EM algorithm. The vectors are assumed to have independent coordinates conditional upon knowing which mixture component from which they come, but otherwise their density functions are completely unspecified. Sometimes, the density functions may ...

Abundance estimates from animal point-count surveys require accurate estimates of detection probabilities. The standard model for estimating detection from removalsampled point-count surveys assumes that organisms at a survey site are detected at a constant rate; however, this assumption is often not justified. We consider a class of N-mixture models that allows for detection heterogeneity over...

Detection of sparse signals arises in a wide range of modern scientific studies. The focus so far has been mainly on Gaussian mixture models. In this paper, we consider the detection problem under a general sparse mixture model and obtain an explicit expression for the detection boundary. It is shown that the fundamental limits of detection is governed by the behavior of the log-likelihood rati...