This paper looks at the way in which industrial pharmacists rank the fundamental competences for pharmacy practice. European industrial pharmacists (n = 135) ranked 68 competences for practice, arranged into 13 clusters of two types (personal and patient care). Results show that, compared to community pharmacists (n = 258), industrial pharmacists rank competences centering on research, developm...

This paper describes an implemented system which uses centering theory for planning of coherent texts and choice of referring expressions. We argue that text and sentence planning need to be driven in part by the goal of maintaining referential continuity and thereby facilitating pronoun resolution: obtaining a favourable ordering of clauses, and of arguments within clauses, is likely to increa...

introduction: the aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate the effects of establishing glide path on the centering ability and preparation time of two single-file reciprocating systems in mesial root canals of mandibular molars. methods and materials: sixty extracted mandibular molars with curvatures of 25-39 degrees and separate foramina for the mesiobuccal and mesiolingual canals, were divi...

Short title: Centered random walks Abstract: we extend the Carne-Varopoulos upper bound on the probability transitions of a Markov chain to a certain class of non-reversible processes by introducing the definition of a ‘centering measure’. In the case of random walks on a group, we study the connections between different notions of centering.

PURPOSE One difficulty with Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) is air management during surgery and donor endothelial lamella centering. We evaluated the no-touch technique for donor centering and the use of a newly developed DSAEK donor adjuster. METHODS We evaluated the records of 12 consecutive patients (mean age 75.3 years) with bullous keratopathy who had und...

Centrosome positioning is actively regulated by forces acting on microtubules radiating from the centrosomes. Two mechanisms, center-directed and polarized cortical pulling, are major contributors to the successive centering and posteriorly displacing migrations of the centrosomes in single-cell-stage Caenorhabditis elegans. In this study, we analyze the spatial distribution of the forces actin...

INTRODUCTION Transportation is an important iatrogenic endodontic error which might cause failure. This study evaluated the canal transportation caused by Neoniti and ProTaper instruments, using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) cross sections. METHODS AND MATERIALS This in vitro experimental study was performed on 40 mesiobuccal roots of maxillary first molars. The teeth were scanned with...

In a number of manufacturing applications, parts of circular cross-section must be centered for optimal processing or measurement. However, part form is never perfect, making accurate determination of the “centered” state of a part difficult. Imperfect inputs to the manufacturing process such as roughprocessed parts, deformation due to heat treatment, or raw formed materials present difficulty ...