statement of problem: targis restorations provide good esthetic and clinical success; however, improving marginal accuracy requires further investigations. purpose: the aim of this was to study evaluate the effect of relining on the marginal accuracy of ceromer crowns. material and methods: one ivorine maxillary central incisor was prepared for targis crown. 10 acrylic models were duplicated fr...

The algorithms for finding a Maximum A-Posteriori (MAP) assignment or marginal distribution in a pairwise Markov Random Field (MRF) have been of great recent interest due to their wide application in the context of vision, coding, communication and discrete optimization problems. The max-product (MP) and (sum-product) belief-propagation (BP) algorithm and their variants (e.g. tree re-weighted (...

ing as it does from population growth and technical progress, the model does not generate perpetual growth. It does, however, illustrate the role of organizational change in exploiting the gains to labor specialization and, thereby, overcoming diminishing returns to capital. The focus on organization, in turn, highlights the role of transaction costs as a determinant of long run economic perfor...

This paper studies the effects of global warming in a descriptive model of endogenous growth with multiple regions. It is assumed that deviations from the pre-industrial greenhouse gas concentration, which implies a change in the global surface temperature, negatively affect aggregate output and the marginal product of capital. The paper derives optimal abatement ratios in the non-cooperative w...

We describe a dynamic programming algorithm for computing the marginal distribution of discrete probabilistic programs. This algorithm takes a functional interpreter for an arbitrary probabilistic programming language and turns it into an efficient marginalizer. Because direct caching of sub-distributions is impossible in the presence of recursion, we build a graph of dependencies between sub-d...