Microstructural and mechanical characterization of contemporary lingual orthodontic brackets.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the composition and the microstructural and mechanical characterization of three different types of lingual brackets. MATERIALS AND METHODS Incognito™ (3M Unitek), In-Ovation L (DENTSPLY GAC) and STb™ (Light Lingual System, ORMCO) lingual brackets were studied under the scanning electron microscope employing backscattered electron imaging and their elemental composition was analysed by energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis. Additionally, Vickers hardness was assessed using a universal hardness-testing machine, and the indentation modulus was measured according to instrumented indentation test. Two-way analysis of variance was conducted employing bracket type and location (base and wing) as discriminating variable. Significant differences among groups were allocated by post hoc Student-Newman-Keuls multiple comparison analysis at 95% level of significance. RESULTS Three different phases were identified for Incognito and In-Ovation L bracket based on mean atomic number contrast. On the contrary, STb did not show mean atomic contrast areas and thus it is recognized as a single phase. Incognito is a one-piece bracket with the same structure in wing and base regions. Incognito consists mainly of noble metals while In-Ovation L and STb show similar formulations of ferrous alloys in wing and base regions. No significant differences were found between ferrous brackets in hardness and modulus values, but there were significant differences between wing and base regions. Incognito illustrated intermediate values with significant differences from base and wing values of ferrous brackets. CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS Significant differences exist in microstructure, elemental composition, and mechanical properties among the brackets tested; these might have a series of clinical implications during mechanotherapy.

Morphological Considerations in Lingual Appliance Design: A Descriptive Study

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Certificate in Orthodontics, Dept. of Orthodontics, University of Connecticut Health Center, 1986

Cross-lingual ontology matching as a challenge for the Multilingual Semantic Web

Recently, the Semantic Web has experienced significant advancements in standards and techniques, as well as in the amount of semantic information available online. Nevertheless, mechanisms are still needed to automatically reconcile information when it is expressed in different natural languages on the Web of Data, in order to improve the access to semantic information across language barriers. In this context several challenges arise [1], such as: (i) ontology translation/localization, (ii) cross-lingual ontology mappings, (iii) representation of multilingual lexical information, and (iv) cross-lingual access and querying of linked data. In the following we will focus on the second challenge, which is the necessity of establishing, representing and storing cross-lingual links among semantic information on the Web. In fact, in a “truly” multilingual Semantic Web, semantic data with lexical representations in one natural language would be mapped to equivalent or related information in other languages, thus making navigation across multilingual information possible for software agents.

Cross-Lingual Linking of News Stories using ESA

In this paper, we describe our approach for Cross-Lingual linking of Indian news stories, submitted for Cross-Lingual Indian News Story Search (CL!NSS) task at FIRE 2012. Our approach consists of two major steps, the reduction of search space by using di�erent features and ranking of the news stories according to their relatedness scores. Our approach uses Wikipedia-based Cross-Lingual Explicit Semantic Analysis (CLESA) to calculate the semantic similarity and relatedness score between two news stories in di�erent languages. We evaluate our approach on CL!NSS dataset, which consists of 50 news stories in English and 50K news stories in Hindi.

Cross-lingual Linking on the Multilingual Web of Data (position statement)

Recently, the Semantic Web has experienced signi�cant advancements in standards and techniques, as well as in the amount of semantic information available online. Even so, mechanisms are still needed to automatically reconcile semantic information when it is expressed in di�erent natural languages, so that access to Web information across language barriers can be improved. That requires developing techniques for discovering and representing cross-lingual links on the Web of Data. In this paper we explore the different dimensions of such a problem and reflect on possible avenues of research on that topic.

Cross‐lingual link discovery in the Web of Data

Cross‐lingual link discovery in the Web of Data

Using Cross-Lingual Explicit Semantic Analysis for Improving Ontology Translation

Semantic Web aims to allow machines to make inferences using the explicit conceptualisations contained in ontologies. By pointing to ontologies, Semantic Web-based applications are able to inter-operate and share common information easily. Nevertheless, multilingual semantic applications are still rare, owing to the fact that most online ontologies are monolingual in English. In order to solve this issue, techniques for ontology localisation and translation are needed. However, traditional machine translation is difficult to apply to ontologies, owing to the fact that ontology labels tend to be quite short in length and linguistically different from the free text paradigm. In this paper, we propose an approach to enhance machine translation of ontologies based on exploiting the well-structured concept descriptions contained in the ontology. In particular, our approach leverages the semantics contained in the ontology by using Cross Lingual Explicit Semantic Analysis (CLESA) for context-based disambiguation in phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). The presented work is novel in the sense that application of CLESA in SMT has not been performed earlier to the best of our knowledge.

TrendMiner: Large-scale Cross-lingual Trend Mining Summarization of Real-time Media Streams

El reciente crecimiento masivo de medios on-line y el incremento de los contenidos generados por los usuarios (por ejemplo, weblogs, Twitter, Facebook) plantea retos en el acceso e interpretación de datos multilingües de manera eficiente, rápida y asequible. El objetivo del proyecto TredMiner es desarrollar métodos innovadores, portables, de código abierto y que funcionen en tiempo real para generación de resúmenes y minería cross-lingüe de medios sociales a gran escala. Los resultados se están validando en tres casos de uso: soporte a la decisión en el dominio financiero (con analistas, empresarios, reguladores y economistas), monitorización y análisis político (con periodistas, economistas y políticos) y monitorización de medios sociales sobre salud con el fin de detectar información sobre efectos adversos a medicamentos.

The Gael = An gaeḋal : a monthly bi-lingual magazine devoted to the promotion of the literature, history, language, art, music, industries, etc. of Ireland ...

Editors: -Oct. 1901, Geraldine M. Haverty.- S.J. Richardson.

The history of Esarhaddon (son of Sennacherib) king of Assyria, B. C. 681-688; tr. from the cuneiform inscriptions upon cylinders and tablets in the British museum collection, together with original texts; a grammatical analysis of each word, explanations of the ideographs by extracts from the bi-lingual syllabaries, and list of eponyms, etc.,

Cuneiform text and English translation on opposite pages.

Staffing level of bi-lingual employees /

Latest issue consulted: 2008.

Cholinergic and adrenergic innervation of lingual salt glands of the estuarine crocodile, Crocodylus porosus

Many marine reptiles and birds possess extrarenal salt glands that facilitate the excretion of excess sodium and chloride ions accumulated as a consequence of living in saline environments. Control of the secretory activity of avian salt glands is under neural control, but little information is available on the control of reptilian salt glands. Innervation of the lingual salt glands of the salt water crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, was examined in salt water-acclimated animals using histological methods. Extensive networks of both cholinergic and adrenergic nerve fibres were identified close to salt-secreting lobules and vasculature. The identification of both catecholamine-containing and cholinergic neurons in the salt gland epithelium and close to major blood vessels in the tissue suggests the action of the neurotransmitters on the salt-secreting epithelium itself and the rich vascular network of the lingual salt glands.

Dynamic assessment of articulation during lingual fatigue in myasthenia gravis

The present study aimed to investigate how induced lingual fatigue affected lingual strength, articulatory kinematics, and perceptual speech features in CS, a 51-year-old female with active myasthenia gravis (MG), and three age and gender matched control participants, Lingual fatigue was elicited via a series of endurance tasks using a tongue pressure bulb. Following each endurance task, the participants performed a speech task containing the phonemes /k/, /t/, and /j/ that was recorded with an electromagnetic articulograph, followed by a lingual strength assessment using a tongue pressure bulb. Participants repeated this schedule over five phases and kinematic and strength changes during each phase were compared to baseline measurements. All of CSs significant kinematic changes occurred during the final fatigue phase compared to 27.3% of the control group's kinematic changes occurring during this phase, suggesting the kinematic changes associated with fatigue were not accelerated in CS. The endurance tasks also elicited different kinematic effects for CSs anterior and posterior tongue segments. While CS exhibited mostly similar kinematic and perceptual changes to the control group, some of CS's perceptual transcriptions for /k/ and kinematic changes were not replicated, indicating that some different perceptual and physiological consequences to CS's speech were elicited by the endurance tasks.

DETERMINAÇÃO DAS FORMAS E DIMENSÕES DOS ARCOS DENTAIS PARA USO DE ARCO CONTÍNUO NA TÉCNICA LINGUAL

Este estudo objetiva encontrar a forma e dimensão de arcos dentais para definir a forma de um arco contínuo que possa ser utilizado na técnica lingual. A amostra foi composta de 70 indivíduos brasileiros, leucodermas, com oclusão normal natural, que apresentaram no mínimo quatro das seis chaves de oclusão de Andrews. Esta amostra possui 40% de indivíduos do sexo masculino (28 homens) e 60% do sexo feminino (42 mulheres) com idade média de 16,4a. Os modelos dos arcos dentais da maxila e mandíbula foram digitalizados (3D) e as imagens exportadas para o software Delcam Power SHAPE® 2010 (Birmingham, U.K.). Foram selecionados pontos nas superfícies linguais dos dentes e traçadas 14 medidas para determinar a forma e a dimensão do arco dental. O teste de Shapiro-Wilk possibilitou definir uma forma de arco pequeno utilizando o percentil 25% (P25%), um arco médio (média) e uma forma de arco grande pelo percentil 75% (P75%). O teste t-student comparou se houve uma diferença entre os sexos, e foram encontrados 12 tamanhos de arcos dentais (6 para o sexo feminino e 6 para o sexo masculino). Em todos os testes estatísticos foi adotado nível de significância de 5% (p<0,05). A partir dos resultados obtidos, foi possível definir uma forma de arco contínuo para ser utilizado na técnica Lingual Straight Wire (LSW) - parábola levemente achatada na região anterior - e, devido à similaridade entre alguns tamanhos de arcos dentais, encontrados pelo dimorfismo sexual, pôde ser elaborado um diagrama de arcos de maneira mais simplificada.

AVALIAÇÃO COMPARATIVA DA HIGIENIZAÇÃO BUCAL DE PACIENTES COM APARELHO ORTODÔNTICO FIXO LINGUAL E LABIAL

O objetivo desse trabalho foi avaliar a higiene oral de pacientes adultos, pela análise dos índices de sangramento gengival e de placa pré e pós-colocação do aparelho ortodôntico fixo lingual e compará-la a um grupo de pacientes com aparelho ortodôntico fixo labial. O grupo 1 (G1), foi constituído de 11 pacientes, com idade média de 22 anos e 9 meses, tratado com braquetes linguais. O grupo 2 (G2) foi formado por 19 pacientes, com idade média de 26 anos e 8 meses, tratado com braquetes labiais. O sangramento gengival e o índice de placa foram avaliados antes da colagem (T0); 1 semana/15 dias após a colocação total do aparelho, inclusive com arcos (T1). Após isso, foram dadas instruções de higienização. Os pacientes foram novamente avaliados 1 mês após a colocação (T2); 2 meses (T3) e 3 meses (T4), quando foram dados reforços das instruções conforme necessário. Nas avaliações inter-grupos, foram comparadas as alterações relativas ao tipo de aparelho empregado e nas avaliações intra-grupos comparou-se a face vestibular e lingual de um mesmo indivíduo. Os resultados mostraram que houve um significante aumento no índice de placa em T1, exceto na face vestibular dos pacientes com aparelho lingual. Em ambos os grupos, houve um aumento semelhante da gengivite caracterizada pelo aumento do sangramento gengival. Após as instruções de escovação, os pacientes do G2 foram capazes de retornar aos seus índices de placa anteriores à colocação do aparelho. Os pacientes do G1, apesar de haver melhora, não conseguiram voltar aos índices de placa iniciais e tiveram uma menor eficácia de higienização comparado a G2 em T1 e T4.