A female presented to the office with a chief complaint concerning the esthetics of the porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) crowns on her maxillary lateral incisors. The objective was to use contemporary materials and techniques to have them blend better with her natural dentition. The PFM crowns had been completed at different times during her life. She said they did not match each other or her adj...

‘Identifying the conditions that favour successful PFM reform is a good start, but we need to understand the possibilities when not all of these conditions are present.’ Following more than a decade of intensive activity, the debate on public financial management (PFM) reform in developing and transition countries seems settled. The main elements of technical good practice are clear and the cri...

The usefulness of pulse Frl.!qucncy Mudulation (PFM) in information transmission is ..:mpasizcd. Biological systems <Jlso usc Pulse Frcqu.:ncy Modulation in Lransmilling informations. An atlcmpl was made for an cx:pcrimcntal test on PFM. Some results of the experimental test show that almost distortion free information recovery, from the frequency modulated pulse train, is possible by low-pass ...

Hypothesis / aims of study Studies report that whole-body vibration (WBV) recruits about 95-97% of the muscle fibers, due to the oscillations generated by the vibrating platform, which can enable both surface and deep muscles. Lauper (2009) reports that the active vibration the muscles of the pelvic floor (PFM) which may improve your reflex stimulation and synergistic [1,2]. The objective of th...

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor is the dominant electronic imaging device in many application fields, including the mobile or portable devices, teleconference cameras, surveillance and medical imaging sensors. Wide dynamic range (WDR) imaging is of interest particular, demonstrating a large-contrast imaging range of the sensor. As of today, different approaches have ...

BACKGROUND Current measurement tools have difficulty identifying the automatic physiologic processes maintaining continence, and many questions still remain about pelvic floor muscle (PFM) function during automatic events. OBJECTIVE To perform a feasibility study to characterise the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of the PFM and the urethra during a cough. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PART...

INTRBackground and Objectives: Good medical nutrition therapy (MNT) is crucial to inpatients' health and treatment, and is part of routine hospital cares. Surgery ward is a highly danger-prone section in any hospital. The present study was conducted for a proactive risk analysis of nutrition and food distribution in Mashhad Qaem Hospital’ Women’s Surgery Ward in 2013 through health care failure...

We introduce a novel method of constructing language models, which avoids some of the problems associated with recurrent neural networks. The method of creating a Prediction Fractal Machine (PFM) [1] is briefly described and some experiments are presented which demonstrate the suitability of PFMs for language modeling. PFMs distinguish reliably between minimal pairs, and their behavior is consi...

AIMS To compare magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the pelvic floor musculature (PFM), bladder neck and urethral sphincter morphology under three conditions (rest, PFM maximal voluntary contraction (MVC), and straining) in older women with symptoms of stress (SUI) or mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) or without incontinence. METHODS This 2008-2012 exploratory observational cohort study was co...