Influence of masticatory fatigue on the fracture resistance of the pulpless teeth restored with quartz-fiber post-core and crown

To investigate whether masticatory fatigue affects the fracture resistance and pattern of lower premolars restored with quartz-fiber post-core and full crown, 44 single rooted lower premolars recently extracted from orthodontic patients were divided into two groups of 22 each. The crowns of all teeth were removed and endodontically treated and then restored with quartz-fiber post-core and full crown. Twenty-two teeth in one group were selected randomly and circularly loaded at 45° to the long axis of the teeth of 127.4 N at a 6 Hz frequency, and the other group was not delivered to cyclic loading and considered as control. Subsequently, all teeth in two groups were continually loaded to fail at 45° to the long axis of the teeth at a crosshead speed of 1 mm.min-1. The mean destructive force values were （733.88±254.99） and （869.14±280.26） N for the experimental and the control group, respectively, and no statistically significant differences were found between two groups （P〉O.05）. Bevel fracture and horizontal fracture in the neck of root were the major fracture mode of the specimens. Under the circumstances of this study, it seems that cyclic loading does not affect the fracture strength and pattern of the quartz-fiber post-core-crown complex.

Extraction of Tea Polysaccharides and Their Effect on Wheat Starch Retrogradation

Tea Polysaccharides(TPS) has been acknowledged of one of the most important components with various bioactivities in tea.The extraction of TPS from wide tea sources was the previous and determinant work before further studies done.While the extraction procedures of TPS would be different due to the later utilization.In this work,the extraction conditions of TPS were previously optimized by respond surface methodology.A quadric model was obtained as Y = 3.16 + 0.31X1- 0.55X2- 0.47X3- 0.034X1X2+ 0.022X1X3- 0.041X2X3- 0.90X12-0.40X22- 0.73X32.The model was tested and proved through the ANOVA with F-value and p-value.Furthermore,the optimal condition was achieved as extraction temperature of 82℃,extraction time of 106 min and ratio of water to material of 33∶ 1(mL/g),meanwhile the highest yield of TPS showed 3.39% ± 0.08%.The crude TPS was later refined to be of purity of 81.3%.The refined TPS was incorporated with starch as to state the role of TPS in the starch retrogradation of starch-based food.The results showed that TPS-wheat starch mixture has a relatively low degree of retrogradation,which indicated that TPS has a delayed or resistant effect on wheat starch retrogradation.This work may provide a practical evidence for the promising starch-based food incorporated tea.

Exploiting a depth context model in visual tracking with correlation filter

Recently correlation filter based trackers have attracted considerable attention for their high computational efficiency. However, they cannot handle occlusion and scale variation well enough. This paper aims at preventing the tracker from failure in these two situations by integrating the depth information into a correlation filter based tracker. By using RGB-D data, we construct a depth context model to reveal the spatial correlation between the target and its surrounding regions. Furthermore, we adopt a region growing method to make our tracker robust to occlusion and scale variation. Additional optimizations such as a model updating scheme are applied to improve the performance for longer video sequences. Both qualitative and quantitative evaluations on challenging benchmark image sequences demonstrate that the proposed tracker performs favourably against state-of-the-art algorithms.

Efficient fine-grained shared buffer management for multiple OpenCL devices

OpenCL programming provides full code portability between different hardware platforms,and can serve as a good programming candidate for heterogeneous systems,which typically consist of a host processor and several accelerators.However,to make full use of the computing capacity of such a system,programmers are requested to manage diverse OpenCL-enabled devices explicitly,including distributing the workload between different devices and managing data transfer between multiple devices.All these tedious jobs pose a huge challenge for programmers.In this paper,a distributed shared OpenCL memory(DSOM) is presented,which relieves users of having to manage data transfer explicitly,by supporting shared buffers across devices.DSOM allocates shared buffers in the system memory and treats the on-device memory as a software managed virtual cache buffer.To support fine-grained shared buffer management,we designed a kernel parser in DSOM for buffer access range analysis.A basic modified,shared,invalid cache coherency is implemented for DSOM to maintain coherency for cache buffers.In addition,we propose a novel strategy to minimize communication cost between devices by launching each necessary data transfer as early as possible.This strategy enables overlap of data transfer with kernel execution.Our experimental results show that the applicability of our method for buffer access range analysis is good,and the efficiency of DSOM is high.

Angioplasty and stenting for a young stroke patient diagnosed as cerebrovascular fibromuscular dysplasia

Fibromuscular dysplasia(FMD)is a noninflammatory,nonatherosclerotic,and multifocal vascular disease,commonly involving the cerebral and renal arteries.Cerebrovascular stenosis and spontaneous dissection resulting from cerebrovascular FMD(cFMD)is one of the important causes of young stroke.Here,we reported the case of cFMD in a 28-year-old male patient with stroke.Digital subtraction angiogram demonstrated a dissecting aneurysm in the carotid artery and multiple stenoses in both vertebral arteries.Endovascular angioplasty with balloon predilation and stenting was successfully performed for the patient when the medical treatment was not adequate.The follow-up showed a remarkable improvement and no recurrence of stroke.