REZUMAT STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF ENAMEL MATRIX DERIVATIVES ON EARLY WOUND HEALING. WHICH APPLICATIONS ARE EVIDENCE-BASED? Stefan-Ioan Stratul1, Darian Rusu1, Anton Sculean2 The goal of regenerative periodontal therapy is the reconstitution of the lost periodontal structures (i.e. the new formation of root cementum, periodontal ligament and alveolar bone). Results from basic research have pointe...

To test the hypothesis of a heritable base of ectopic ureters (EU) in Entlebucher Mountain Dogs (EMD) and to elucidate associated risk factors and mode of inheritance of the disease, 565 EMD were clinically investigated and population genetic analyses performed. Based on the location of the most caudal termination of the ureteral openings, 552 EMD were classified into three phenotype groups tri...

This case series evaluated the clinical performance and patient-centered outcomes after a minimally invasive surgical technique (MIST) associated with enamel matrix protein derivative (EMD), for the treatment of intra-bony defects. Twelve patients presenting teeth with probing depth >or=5 mm and bleeding on probing associated with radiographic evidence of intra-bony defect were treated by MIST ...

BACKGROUND Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, caused by EMD gene mutations, is characterized by humeroperoneal muscular dystrophy, joint contractures, and conduction defects and is often associated with sudden cardiac death, even without prior cardiac symptoms. OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical and molecular features of 2 patients with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy with mutations in EMD. ...

In this paper, we study the security of the Encrypt-MaskDecrypt mode of operation, also called EMD, which was recently proposed for applications such as disk-sector encryption. The EMD mode transforms an ordinary block cipher operating on n–bit blocks into a tweakable block cipher operating on large blocks of size nm bits. We first show that EMD is not a secure tweakable block cipher and then d...

A noiseless ECG identification technology is an emerging new biometric modality. Different techniques for de-noising of ECG signal are prevalent in recent literatures such as Particle Filter (PF), wavelet transforms (WT), Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) & Ensemble-EMD Method. In view of the fact that Analysis of ECG signals becomes difficult to inspect the cardiac activity in the presence of...

Isolated extramedullary disease (EMD) is uncommon, especially in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We review the literature and present a 32 year old woman with APL who developed multiple EMDs after allogeneic HSCT within the calvarium, and later found to have various isolated lesions including femur, humerus and thoraco lumbar v...

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) approximates a given data matrix as a product of two low rank nonnegative matrices, usually by minimizing the L2 or the KL distance between the data matrix and the matrix product. This factorization was shown to be useful for several important computer vision applications. We propose here a new NMF algorithm that minimizes the Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD) ...

The current gold market shows a high degree of nonlinearity and uncertainty. In order to predict the gold price, Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) was introduced into Support vector machine (SVM). Firstly, we used the EMD method to decompose the original gold price series into a finite number of independent intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), and then grouped the IMFs according to different frequ...

This paper discusses some mat hematical issues related to empirical mode decomposition (EMD). A B-spline EMD algorithm is introduced and developed for the convenience of mathematical studies. The numerical analysis using both simulated and practical signals and application examples from vibration analysis indicate that the B-spline algorithm has a comparable performance to that of the original ...