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Chemical Characterization of the Oil Separated by Mechanical Pressing from Stry...
Chemane, SSI; Susana Casal; Cruz, R; Pinho, T; Khan, M; Pinho, Olívia; Viegas, Olga<jats:p>In Mozambique, rural communities produce flours from the dried pulp of Strychnos madagascariensis fruits. Owing to its high lipid content, the oil from this flour is frequently separated by pressing to be used as seasoning and medicine. Aiming to characterize this oil, flour samples (n = 24), dried at two different temperatures (55 °C and 65 °C), were collected from four local communities, together with...
Orthodontic treatment and craniocervical posture in patients with temporomandib...
Paço, M; Duarte, JA; Pinho, TOrthodontic treatment acts through the application of forces and/or by stimulating and redirecting the functional forces within the craniofacial complex. Considering the interrelationship between craniomandibular and craniocervical systems, this intervention may alter craniocervical posture. Thus, our aim is to (a) compare craniocervical posture, hyoid bone position, and craniofacial morphology before, after, a...
The effect of different dietary and therapeutic solutions on the color stabilit...
Lopes-Rocha, L; Mendes, JM; Garcez, J; Sá, AG; Pinho, T; Souza, JCM; Torres, OThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the color stability of aesthetic restorative resin-matrix materials after their immersion in different dietary and therapeutic solutions. Thirty disc-shaped specimens (10 × 2 mm) were prepared from three different types of resin-matrix composites used in dentistry (BE, FS, AF). The color coordinates (L*a*b*, ¿L*, ¿a*, ¿a*, ¿b* and ¿E*) were measured using a VITA Easysha...
Use of intraoral three-dimensional images for the identification of dental morp...
Santo, E; Pinho, T; Teixeira, A; Perez-Mongiovi, DVictim identification through dental features is one of the main objectives of forensic dentistry. In circumstances where information regarding antemortem dental records is missing, reconstruction of a biological profile can be useful as a first step toward personal identification. This reconstructive method provides valuable information, namely regarding the individual's ancestry, through the detection and deg...
Interrelationship between facial pattern, malocclusion, TMDs, head and neck pos...
Valinhas, S; Paço, M; Santos, R; Pinho, TObjectives: To compare occlusal, facial, and craniocervical postural characteristics according to the breathing pattern, study the association between temporomandibular disorders’ (TMDs) class and severity, gauge the influence of the breathing pattern, head and neck posture, occlusal class, and facial pattern on TMDs severity and the lower cervicofacial ratio, and identify any prevalent differences in TMDs seve...
Interceptive orthodontic traction of impacted maxillary incisors: Clinical cases
Pinho, T; Carvalho, VImpaction is a tooth’s partial or total lack of eruption once the normal age for eruption has passed. It has a multifactorial etiology, and the most common factors are trauma, supernumerary teeth, and odontomas. In particular, the absence of a maxillary central incisor (MCI) due to impaction can pose several consequences for a person’s facial aesthetics, chewing ability, and phonetics, thereby making the diagno...
Orthodontic camouflage versus orthodontic-orthognathic surgical treatment in cl...
Raposo, R; Peleteiro, B; Paço, M; Pinho, TThis systematic review was performed to compare dental, skeletal, and aesthetic outcomes between orthodontic camouflage and surgical-orthodontic treatment, in patients with a skeletal class II malocclusion and a retrognathic mandible who have already finished their growth period. A literature search was conducted, and a modified Downs and Black checklist was used to assess methodological quality. The meta-analy...
The Effectiveness of Physiotherapy in the Management of Temporomandibular Disor...
Paco, M; Peleteiro, B; Duarte, J; Pinho, TAims: To analyze the methodologic quality, summarize the findings, and perform a meta-analysis of the results from randomized controlled trials that assessed the effects of physiotherapy management of temporomandibular disorders. Methods: A literature review was performed using the electronic databases PubMed, Science Direct, and EBSCO. Each article was independently assessed by two investigators using the Phys...
COMPOSITION CODES
Fornasini, E; Pinho, T; Pinto, R; Rocha, PIn this paper we introduce a special class of 2D convolutional codes, called composition codes, which admit encoders G(d(1),d(2)) that can be decomposed as the product of two 1D encoders, i.e., G(d(1), d(2)) = G(2) (d(2))G(1)(d(1))" Taking into account this decomposition, we obtain syndrome formers of the code directly from G(1)(d(1)) and G(2)(d(2)), in case G(1)(d(1)) and G(2)(d(2)) are right prime. Moreover w...
Minimal Realizations of Syndrome Formers of a Special Class of 2D Codes
Fornasini, E; Pinho, T; Pinto, R; Rocha, PIn this paper we consider a special class of 2D convolutional codes (composition codes) with encoders G(d(1), d(2)) that can be decomposed as the product of two 1D encoders, i.e., G(d(1), d(2)) = G(2)(d2)G(1)(d(1)). In case that G(1)(d(1)) and G(2)(d(2)) are prime we provide constructions of syndrome formers of the code, directly from G(1)(d(1)) and G(2)(d(2)). Moreover we investigate the minimality of 2D state...