Abstract Al-based alloys with a soft phase such as Sn are extensively used for bearing components due to their self-lubricating properties. Al-Sn lack the ability support heavy loads so alloying Cu third element provides solution strengthening of aluminium matrix. A crucial issue in manufacturing Al-Sn-Cu is miscibility gap diagram system. Liquid immiscibility responsible severe segregation dur...

CE Email comments/questions to [email protected], fax 800-556-3288, or log on to www.VetLearn.com Computed radiography (CR) is a digital imaging technology and digital x-ray image management system that has been used in human and veterinary medicine since the 1980s. CR helps eliminate many of the disadvantages of traditional radiography. A storage phosphor plate collects the pattern of x...

We report on the case of a frustrated 90-year-old gentleman who was seen in the Accident and Emergency department for the third time in four days with failure of his long-term urethral catheter. He reported that the catheter simply "fell out" with the balloon deflated. On each occasion previously, the catheter had been reinserted in A&E and the patient discharged home. These repeated visits to ...

Ossifying fibroma of the vertebra is a very rare condition. We report a 16-year-old boy with ossifying fibroma of the third lumbar vertebra. Neurological and laboratory examinations demonstrated normal findings. Low-back pain, in the absence of radicular pain, was the presenting symptom. Plain radiography and computerized tomography scanning revealed an osteolytic lesion. The tumor in the third...

background: the aim of the present study is to determine the number of third molars per person, angulation, level, amount of space for eruption of third molar between ramus of mandible and second molar and the eruption status of third molar in a group of libyan students, with different impaction patterns and agenesis of third molars. materials and methods: in this descriptive retrospective stud...