Simultaneous bioelectricity generation and dye degradation was achieved in the present study by using a combined anaerobic-aerobic process. The anaerobic system was a typical single chambered microbial fuel cell (SMFC) which utilizes acid navy blue r (ANB) dye along with glucose as growth substrate to generate electricity. Four different concentrations of ANB (50, 100, 200 and 400 ppm) were tes...

INTRODUCTION In growing patients with skeletal discrepancies, early diagnosis, evidence-based explanations of etiology, and assessment of functional factors can be vital for the restoration of normal craniofacial growth and the stability of the treatment results. The aims of our study were to compare the 3-dimensional pharyngeal airway volumes in healthy children with a retrognathic mandible an...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the length of the lingual frenulum and craniofacial morphology and test the hypothesis that skeletal Class III malocclusion is related to tongue-tie, in which the lingual frenulum is short and restricts the mobility of the tongue. METHODS The sample consisted of 50 skeletal Class I patients (0° < ANB angle < 4°),...

Objective To assess the ANB angle's and Wits appraisal's diagnostic performance using an extended version of Receiver Operating Curve (ROC) analysis, which renders ROC surfaces. These were calculated for both the conventional and normalized cephalometric tests (calculated by exchanging the patient's reference landmarks with those of the Procrustes superimposed sample mean shape).The required 'g...

Accessory Navicular Bone (ANB) (os navicularum or os tibiale externum) is a common variant of secondary ossification present in 5 to 10 % the population. Due its unique anatomical location foot and associated relation with tibialis posterior tendon, these are usually symptomatic type 2 ANB 3 stages. Often patients can develop plantar fascitis bunions calcaneal spur.Case Report: A 20 year old fe...

This retrospective study was undertaken to determine the presence of any features on a pretreatment lateral cephalogram that may be used to predict the success of improvement in the sagittal dental base relationship during functional appliance therapy in patients with a Class II skeletal pattern. Seventy-two patients judged to have been successfully treated with a functional appliance were sele...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the cephalometric parameters that impair the consistency between the Wits and ANB measurements, which are used in the determination of anteroposterior jaw relationships by logistic regression analysis in the Turkish population. Methods: This retrospective study was conducted on 207 lateral cephalometric radiographs of 100 females (mean age: 15...

The interaction between inorganic nanoparticles and biological molecules is of great importance in the field biosystems nanomaterials. Here, we report adsorption process a heterocyclic organic compound (nitrogenous base) on microporous carbon (C) presence colloidal silver solution (AgNP solution) as an accompanying substance. Analysis potential colloid–biomolecule well subsequent phenomenon cha...

Two central characteristics of Catholicism in Southwest Germany were clericalism and communalism. Clericalism meant, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, that German Catholics demanded that priests, especially resident priests, perform and sanctify church rituals. Communalism meant that village communes played a central role in the supervision of the rural clergy and in the o...