Objective: Since orthodontic and orthognathic treatment planningin each ethnic group must be done according to the soft tissue facial characteristicsregarded as beauty,they thus vary from country to country.The main purpose of this articlewas to determine the mean range of the middle third of soft tissue facial profile and anteroposterior lip positioningusing 3angular and 2 linear measurement...

INTRODUCTION Despite discussion on the merit of various cephalometric superimposition methods, there remains a need to assess which one can be used in daily practice with reasonably accuracy and less working time. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate four methods of cephalometric superimposition by means of assessing the longitudinal changes in craniofacial morphology caused by ...

Recent experiments have revealed a rich variety of strain states in doped ferroelastic systems. We study the origin of two abnormal strain states; precursory tweed and strain glass, and their relationship with the well-known austenite and martensite (the para- and ferroelastic states). A Landau free energy model is proposed, which assumes that point defects alter the global thermodynamic stabil...

objective: since orthodontic and orthognathic treatment planningin each ethnic group must be done according to the soft tissue facial characteristicsregarded as beauty,they thus vary from country to country.the main purpose of this articlewas to determine the mean range of the middle third of soft tissue facial profile and anteroposterior lip positioningusing 3angular and 2 linear measurements ...

Dredge material removed from the Tweed River Entrance is deposited offshore Gold Coast beaches to assist in mitigating erosion. Research was undertaken by Queensland Government Hydraulics Laboratory (QGHL), collaboration with Sand Bypassing (TSB), investigate potential of targeting dredge depositions also improve surf amenity. A time-domain numerical wave model (SWASH) developed as a design too...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to identify the patterns of dental variables of adolescent Japanese-Brazilian descendants with normal occlusion, and also to compare them with a similar Caucasian and Mongoloid sample. METHODS Lateral cephalometric radiographs were used to compare the groups: Caucasian (n = 40), Japanese-Brazilian (n = 32) and Mongoloid (n = 33). The statistical te...

Incorporating spatial covariance into clustering has previously been considered for functional data to identify groups of functions which are similar across space. However, in the majority of situations that have been considered until now the most appropriate metric has been Euclidean distance. Directed networks present additional challenges in terms of estimating spatial covariance due to thei...