BACKGROUND The inclination of the occlusal plane (OP) is related to facial types and experiences physiological growth-related changes. The aims of this research were to determine if there were any differences in the inclination of OP in subjects with three types of skeletal malocclusion and to investigate the characteristics and differences of functional occlusal plane (FOP) compared to bisecte...

OBJECTIVE:: The objectives were to determine the postural consequences of varying computer monitor height and to describe self-selected monitor heights and postures. DESIGN:: The design involved experimental manipulation of computer monitor height, description of self-selected heights, and measurement of posture and gaze angles. BACKGROUND: Disagreement exists with regard to the appropriate hei...

The presence of an imposed external magnetic field may drastically influence the structure of thin accretion discs. The magnetic field energy is here assumed to be in balance with the thermal energy of the accretion flow. The vertical magnetic field, its toroidal component B tor at the disc surface (due to different rotation rates between disc and its magnetosphere), the turbulent magnetic Pran...

This paper presents a numerical investigation of the laminar mixed convection flow of a radiating gas in an inclined lid-driven cavity. The fluid is treated as a gray, absorbing, emitting, and scattering medium. The governing differential equations including continuity, momentum and energy are solved numerically by the computational fluid dynamics techniques (CFD) to obtain the velocity and tem...

Objective The aim of this study was to determine cephalometric factors that help predict favorable soft-tissue profile outcomes following treatment with the Class II Twin-block appliance. Methods Pre- and post-treatment lateral cephalograms of 45 patients treated with the Class II Twin-block appliance were retrospectively analyzed. Profile silhouettes were drawn from the cephalograms and eval...

Aim: To analyse glenoid fossa position in Class I, II (div 1 and 2) malocclusions and to analyse variation in the shape of the glenoid fossa in different mandibular configurations. Materials and Methods: The cephalometric study was carried on lateral films of 45 subjects aged 12 18 years. They were divided into three groups based on the ANB angle (and anterior occlusal relation) and also based ...

In the present work, we study correlations between stellar fundamental parameters and the oscillation amplitude for δ Scuti stars . We present this study for a sample of 17 selected δ Scuti stars belonging to 5 young open clusters. Taking advantage of properties of δ Scuti stars in clusters, we correct the photometric parameters of our objects for the effect of fast rotation. We confirm the ben...

We have obtained optical and infrared photometry of the quiescent soft Xray transient XTE J1118+480. In addition to optical and J-band variations, we present the first observed Hand Ks-band ellipsoidal variations for this system. We model the variations in all bands simultaneously with the WD98 light curve modeling code. The infrared colors of the secondary star in this system are consistent wi...

We propose a novel sensor system for monitoring the structural health of a building. The system optically measures the relative-story displacement during earthquakes for detecting any deformations of building elements. The sensor unit is composed of three position sensitive detectors (PSDs) and lenses capable of measuring the relative-story displacement precisely, even if the PSD unit was incli...

The interaction patterns between doubly excited pulse waves on thin liquid films flowing down an inclined plane are studied both experimentally and numerically. The effect of varying the film flow rate, interpulse interval, and substrate inclination angle on the pulse interaction patterns is examined. Our results show that different interaction patterns exist for these binary pulses, which incl...