AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate levels of public awareness and knowledge about early signs and risk factors of oral cancer among a group of dental patients in Turkey. METHODS AND MATERIALS This study included 1022 participants. Sociodemographic information of patients was obtained. A questionnaire about awareness and knowledge of oral cancer and early signs and risk factors related ...

Defects in photonic crystals (PCs) can support localized light modes with extremely small mode volumes. Depending on the symmetry of the PC, and the means of fabrication of the PC, extremely high quality factors (Q) are also possible. The combination of high Q and small mode volume should allow us to observe strong coupling between the cavity and quantum dot (QD) emitters that are strategically...

In this study, we investigated numerically heat transfer by mixed convection coupled to radiation in a square cavity; the upper horizontal wall is movable. The purpose of this study is to see the influence of the emissivity ε and the varying of the Richardson number Ri on the variation of average Nusselt number Nu. The vertical walls of the cavity are differentially heated, the left wall is mai...

In this manuscript, the LBM is applied for simulating of Mixed Convection in a Lid-Driven cavity with an open side. The cavity horizontal walls are insulated while the west Lid-driven wall is maintained at a uniform temperature higher than the ambient. Prandtl number (Pr) is fixed to 0.71 (air) while Reynolds number (Re) , Richardson number (Ri) and aspect ratio (A) of the cavity are changed in...

The generic square-gradient density-functional model with triple-parabolic free energy is used to study the stability of a cavity introduced into the stretched liquid. The various properties of the critical cavity, which is the largest stable cavity within the liquid, are compared with those of the critical bubble of the homogeneous bubble nucleation. It is found that the size of the critical c...

Materials and Methods: Class V cavities were prepared on 20 extracted mandibular molars. The cavities in the experimental groups were pre-treated with a scrub of cavity disinfectants followed by application of bonding agent. Preparations without cavity disinfectants served as control. After the cavities were restored with resin composite (G-Aenial Universal Flo), the specimens were subjected to...

We present our experimental demonstration of controlling the cavity output intensity of one laser beam with the intensity of another laser beam in a composite system consisting of a collection of three-level ?-type rubidium atoms and an optical ring cavity. When the intensity of the controlling beam is modulated with a square waveform, the cavity output power switches on and off (with a distinc...