PURPOSE In this study, the removal torques of commercially pure titanium Implants that had been implanted simultaneously with the start of treatment for osteoporosis were compared to those of a group without treatment and a healthy group. MATERIALS AND METHODS Rats treated by ovariectomy or sham surgery at the age of 12 weeks were used. Twenty-eight days after surgery, the rats treated by ova...

Larix gmelinii natural forests, which are of great ecological and economic importance, mainly distributed in northeast China. Sustainable management these forests play a vital role security China, especially the context climate change. Forest growth models, support forest decision-making, lacking for hampering prescription strategies. In this study, we produced climate-sensitive, transition-mat...

OBJECTIVE To improve clinical diabetes care, patient knowledge, and treatment satisfaction and to reduce health-adverse culture-based beliefs in underserved and underinsured populations with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 153 high-risk patients with diabetes recruited from six community clinic sites in San Diego County, California were enrolled in a nurse case management (NC...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine the clinical feasibility of using dehydrothermally cross-linked collagen membrane (DCM) for bone regeneration around peri-implant dehiscence defects, and compare it with non-cross-linked native collagen membrane (NCM). METHODS Dehiscence defects were investigated in twenty-eight patients. Defect width and height were measured by periodontal probe...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Although the implant-abutment connection may prevent crestal bone loss around dental implants, its failure often leads to treatment failure. Microgap and micromovement of the implant-abutment connection could be causes of bone resorption around dental implant neck. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare torque resistance and microgaps between a new cone and inde...

Corresponding Author: Mehmet Ali Elbey, MD; e-mail: [email protected] 565 Dear Editor, The noncompacted myocardium (NCM) is characterised prominent trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses due to interruption of the myocardial fiber compacting during embryogenesis. Major clinical features of NCM include heart failure, arrhytmias and thromboembolic events. A 40-year-old man with shor...

Data clustering is an important step in data mining and machine learning. It is especially crucial to analyze the data structures for further procedures. Recently a new clustering algorithm known as ‘neutrosophic c-means’ (NCM) was proposed in order to alleviate the limitations of the popular fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering algorithm by introducing a new objective function which contains two typ...

Plasticity studies have consistently shown that behavioural relevance can change the neural representation of sounds in the auditory system, but what occurs in the context of natural acoustic communication where significance could be acquired through social interaction remains to be explored. The zebra finch, a highly social songbird species that forms lifelong pair bonds and uses a vocalizatio...

In 'no common mechanism' (NCM) models of character evolution, each character can evolve on a phylogenetic tree under a partially or totally separate process (e.g. with its own branch lengths). In such cases, the usual conditions that suffice to establish the statistical consistency of tree reconstruction by methods such as maximum likelihood (ML) break down, suggesting that such methods may be ...

Two groups of eight Friesland bull calves each were used in the trial. Calves received a commercial, coagulable milk replacer in which casein coagulation either was normal (CM treatment), or was prevented by the precipitation of Ca++ with an oxalic acid-sodium hydroxide buffer (NCM treatment). In both treatments, the daily milk replacer feeding level (percentage of birth mass) was increased fro...