OBJECTIVES To investigate the long-term development of the post-cure degree of conversion (DC) for two flowable bulk-fill composites. MATERIALS AND METHODS Tetric EvoFlow Bulk Fill (TEFBF) and SDR were chosen due to their distinct compositional modifications that enable the decrease of translucency during polymerization and lower polymerization rate, respectively. DC was assessed using FT-Ram...

introduction: health care is one of the most important sectors in the development of each country and disparities in their distribution will reduce the level of development. the aim of this study was to examine the access to healthcare and degree of development in health care resources in the west of iran in 2011. method: this was a cross-sectional and retrospective study. the study setting was...

Absfrcrcf-In this paper, we propose a method to calculate the average blocking probability in all-optical networks using limited-rmge wavelength conversion. Previous works have shown that there is a remarkable improvement in blocking probability while using limited-range wavelength conversion [2], [3] but these analytical models were either for a path [2] or for a mesh-torus network [3]. Using ...

background: the degree to which the amount of aningested nutrient is absorbed and available to the body is calledbioavailability. objectives: relative effectiveness of herbalmethionine (h-met®) compared to dl-methionine (dl-met)was investigated in this experiment. methods: exponentialregression analysis was used to determine bioefficacy of h-met®based on body weight gain, feed intake and feed c...

An irreversible k-threshold process (also a k-neighbor bootstrap percolation) is a dynamic process on a graph where vertices change color from white to black if they have at least k black neighbors. An irreversible k-conversion set of a graph G is a subset S of vertices of G such that the irreversible k-threshold process starting with S black eventually changes all vertices of G to black. We sh...

for a nite group g the commutativity degree denote by d(g) and dend: d(g) = jf(x; y)jx; y 2 g; xy = yxgj jgj2 : in [2] authors found commutativity degree for some groups,in this paper we nd commuta- tivity degree for a class of groups that have high nilpontencies.

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the cytotoxicity and degree of monomer conversion of resin-reinforced glass ionomer cements (RGIC) over different time periods. Four RGICs: Fuji Ortho LC (FOLC), Fuji Ortho Band (FOB), Orthoglass (OGL), and Multicure Glass Ionomer (MCI) were evaluated for cytotoxicity in fibroblastic L929 cells and for their degree of monomer conversion over di...

We propose the use of whispering gallery mode coupling in a novel configuration based on implementing a thin film cell on the backside of an array of parallel fibers. We performed numerical calculations using the parameters of a thin film organic cell which demonstrate that light coupling becomes more effective as the angle for the incident light relative to the fiber array normal increases up ...