INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to evaluate the skeletal and dental changes in the maxillae of patients with clefts treated with 3 expanders: hyrax, fan-type, and inverted mini-hyrax supported on the first premolars. METHODS Thirty patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate with transverse maxillary deficiency were divided into 3 groups, according to the type of expander that th...

The computational and storage capabilities of today’s mobile devices are rapidly catching up with those of our traditional desktop computers and servers. In fact, mobile phones with 1 GHz processors are readily available in the market today. Unfortunately, all of these processing resources are mostly under-utilised and are generally used to process local data and programs only. With the use of ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) were observed capturing and toying with western tree hyraxes (Dendrohyrax dorsalis, Order Hyracoidea) at Bossou, Guinea. An adolescent female carried one hyrax for 15 hr, slept with it in her nest, and groomed it. The captive was not consumed. Nearby adults ignored the hyrax. In another case, two adolescent males timidly inspected a small hyrax. These observa...

Few mammalian species produce vocalizations that are as richly structured as bird songs, and this greatly restricts the capacity for information transfer. Syntactically complex mammalian vocalizations have been previously studied only in primates, cetaceans and bats. We provide evidence of complex syntactic vocalizations in a small social mammal: the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis: Hyracoidea). ...

We demonstrate Hyrax, a new runtime platform for dataparallel computation under development at UC Irvine under the ASTERIX project. We show the versatility of Hyrax by using it to run XQuery queries from ASTERIX, Hadoop MapReduce jobs using a Hadoop emulation layer, and SQL queries originating from Hive.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to evaluate the transverse effect of rapid maxillary expansion in patients with unilateral complete cleft lip and palate while comparing the Haas and Hyrax appliances. METHODS The sample consisted of 48 patients divided into two groups: Group I = 25 patients treated with modified Haas appliance (mean age: 10 years and 8 months); and Group II = 23 pat...

Today’s smartphones operate independently of each other, using only local computing, sensing, networking, and storage capabilities and functions provided by remote Internet services. It is generally difficult or expensive for one smartphone to share data and computing resources with another. Data is shared through centralized services, requiring expensive uploads and downloads that strain wirel...

The mammalian neocortex contains a great variety of neuronal types. In particular, recent studies have shown substantial morphological diversity among spiny projecting neurons in species that diverged close to the base of the mammalian radiation (e.g., monotremes, afrotherians, and xenarthrans). Here, we used a Golgi technique to examine different neuronal morphologies in an afrotherian species...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to introduce a new method for bilateral distal movement of the entire maxillary posterior segment. CASE REPORT A 17-year-old girl with Class I skeletal malocclusion (end-to-end molar relationships, deviated midline and space deficiency for left maxillary canine) was referred for orthodontic treatment. She did not accept maxillary first premolars extraction....