The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship between the balance of upperand lower-lip-closing forces (LCF) during pursing-like lip-closing and lateral craniofacial morphology. Sixty-two females with malocclusion were subjected to lateral cephalography and divided into 3 groups (skeletal Classes I, II and III) by the value of ANB. The LCF was measured using a multidirectional LCF measu...

When the thermal stresses induced in a geothermal well’s casing string exceed the yield strength of the casing material, the fatigue behavior of the latter can be defined as low cycle fatigue (LCF). The connection threads in the casing body amplify the local stress distribution and lower LCF resistance. A theoretical approach is presented to evaluate LCF resistance and compared with preliminary...

In order to the neuroprotective effect of Lycium chinense fruit (LCF), the present study examined the effects of Lycium chinense fruit on learning and memory in Morris water maze task and the choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) of rats with trimethyltin (TMT)-induced neuronal and cognitive impairments. The rats were randomly divided into the following grou...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to detect the incidence of estrogen receptors in human hip joint capsule and ligamentum teres. METHODS The study included biopsies of the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) and hip joint capsule from 15 patients undergoing hip surgery for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) and from the control hips of 15 cases of intrauterine fetal death. Mean age was 1...

This paper proposes a novel image-processing algorithm to recognize the lane-curve of a structured road. The proposed algorithm uses an lane-curve function (LCF) obtained by the transformation of the defined parabolic function on the world coordinates into the image coordinates. Unlike other existing methods, this algorithm needs no transformation of the image pixels into the world coordinates....

PURPOSE Classically, acute and chronic inflammations are characterized by fibrin deposition and a dynamic influx of leukocytes. This leukocyte recruitment, and associated activation, is thought to be dependent on the generation of leukocyte chemotactic factors (LCF). Although the functional existence of LCF in ocular tissue has been demonstrated, the identity, source(s), and mechanisms of induc...