Introduction: There is substantial evidence that the technical quality of root canalfilling has a significant effect on the outcome of root canal treatment. Theaim of this study was to evaluate the technical quality of root canal fillingsperformed by dental students. Methods: The records of 325 teethradiographs, treated by dental students in 2008-2009 in Babol Dental School,were selected and ev...

Background and Aim: Apoptosis is a type of programmed cell death occurring by a series of intercellular messages which is associated with tissue structure remodeling. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the interactive effects of reducing exercise intensity and Adiantum capillus veneris extract on remodeling and modulation of pulmonary apoptotic indices of the rats exposed to th...

Electromagnetic scattering is considered from finite and electrically large perfectly conducting rough surfaces. Three solution approaches are considered. The first two are based on a multi-level fast-multipole algorithm (MLFMA) formulation. In one MLFMA approach the rough surface resides in free space and is terminated by a resistive taper. In the second MLFMA approach the rough surface is ter...

Winding is an integral operation in almost every roll to roll system. A center-wound roll is one of the suitable and general schemes in a winding mechanism. In general, the quality of wound roll is known to be related to the lateral displacement error and starring defect of a wound roll. Especially, a telescoping within a center-wound roll can cause damages such as misalignment between layers, ...

Background: Volume and taper equations are essential for obtaining estimates of total and merchantable stem volume. Taper functions provide advantages to merchantable volume equations because they estimate diameter inside or outside bark at specific heights on the stem, enabling the estimation of total and merchantable stem volume, volume of individual logs, and a height at a given diameter. Me...

The aim of this study was to conduct a literature review on the potential benefits with the use of Morse taper dental implant connections associated with small diameter platform switching abutments. A Medline bibliographical search (from 1961 to 2014) was carried out. The following search items were explored: "Bone loss and platform switching," "bone loss and implant-abutment joint," "bone reso...

this study is focused on investigating the parameters of laser percussion drilling process of nickel-base super alloy inconel 718 with thickness of 1 mm. fiber laser with the power of 500 watts was used as the laser source. laser pulse frequency, duty cycle, laser power, focal point position, were assumed as the laser drilling process variables. the hole geometry features, i.e. entrance hole di...

We design and fabricate a new taper structure for adiabatic mode transformation in two-dimensional photonic-crystal waveguides patterned into a GaInAsP confining layer. The taper efficiency is validated by measurement of a reduction of the reflection between an access ridge and a photonic-crystal guide with one missing row from 6% to less than 1%. This taper is then incorporated into a 60 degre...

Measuring the amount of material loss in the case of revised hip replacements is considered to be a prerequisite of understanding and assessing the true in vivo performance of the implant. This paper outlines a method developed by the authors for quantifying taper material loss as well as more general taper interface parameters. Previous studies have mostly relied on visual inspection to assess...

The segmented taper equation has great flexibility and is widely applied in exiting taper systems. The unconstrained least square regression (ULSR) was generally used to estimate parameters in previous applications of the segmented taper equations. The joint point parameters estimated with ULSR may fall outside the feasible region, which leads to the results of the segmented taper equation bein...