The aim of this study was to determine which of two occlusal indices were the most appropriate for use in the assessment of orthognathic outcome. The indices used were the Peer Assessment Rating (PAR) Index and the Index of Treatment Complexity, Outcome, and Need (ICON). These indices were validated against the subjective assessments of treatment outcome and treatment improvement obtained from ...

2748 ination of pet food, a detection method involving liquid chroma-tography–mass spectrometry became widely available and reliably identifies both cyanuric acid and melamine. A number of suspect foods from China tested by the FDA were found to contain melamine (see table), and more are being reported around the world each week. Furthermore, the FDA has found trace levels of melamine in severa...

We describe Jcon, a new, Java-based implementation of the Icon programming language. The implementation includes a compiler and runtime system. The runtime system is novel in its concise and efficient object-oriented implementation of a dynamically typed language, as well as its simple mechanism for realizing Icon generators.

1. Introduction In an earlier report [1], a model for string pattern matching in the style of SNOBOL4 was developed using Icon. That report showed how most of the pattern-matching mechanism of SNOBOL4 could be translated into Icon and, in effect, provided a model for implementing pattern matching in the style of SNOBOL4.