Restoration - Science topic

This handbook is designed to provide an overview of common competency restoration practices, and expand upon available resources by explaining how various other clinical interventions can be adapted to help restore individuals to competency. Covering empirically-supported and creative interventions that can be adapted and individualized for a speci...

Composite resins can be effectively recycled to progress the patient's esthetics concluded minimally invasive, low cost and high clinical presentation managements.[1-6] The layering techniques of composite resins in different thicknesses, with varying grades of opacity and translucency, permit to create esthetic restorations with dental structures...

The presentation describes a method for fabrication of anterior class IV composite restoration.[1,2] The case presented here deals with direct restoration of fractured maxillary central incisors with composite resin using "Silicone Index Technique". [3-7]This method reduces the chair side time and provides superior control of restoration contours a...

Image inpainting aims to recover damaged regions of a corrupted image and maintain the integrity of the structure and texture within the filled regions. Previous popular approaches have restored images with both vivid textures and structures by introducing structure priors. However, the structure prior-based approaches meet the following main chall...

Old religious buildings represent an essential cultural heritage whatever the country or the religion they belong to. Thanks to many researches carried out in the last years, their acoustics is now considered part of this heritage. However, for practical reasons, their acoustic characterization is often made under unoccupied conditions, while, give...

Most surface water bodies are deteriorating, resulting in health risks and environmental damage. This study aimed to assess the performance of the modeled agri-environmental transition scenarios for restoring freshwater quality within the protection perimeter of strategic surface water drinking water catchments. Realistic agri-environmental scenari...

Energy efficient preservation of historical buildings is an important issue. Decisions and interventions taken during the renewal and strengthening of these worn out and destroyed buildings gain importance. The application of contemporary additions in restoration has recently increased due to reasons such as the redesign of the spaces of historical...

Sandy beaches, essential components of coastal landscapes, are increasingly threatened by urbanization, resource extraction, and climate change, jeopardizing their ecological integrity and scenic value. This study assesses the health and scenic quality of 100 sandy beaches along the Uruguayan coast, influenced by the Ro de la Plata estuary, using t...

Skilled labor shortage is a prominent challenge in the world of work. Meanwhile, age-related disabilities or injury lead to at least temporary performance limitations, which make people unfit to work. Consequently, even less workers are available. By employing human-robot teams, the performance of these people may be restored. This requires a good...

An overview of the working of the voluntary carbon market in the Scottish uplands and its contribution to their restoration. Issues are identified and solutions suggested.

Every year, the business community is increasingly focusing on the development of companies in compliance with ESG principles. In particular, for companies doing business in the European Union, a combination of environmental, social and governance components are widely used in their corporate activities. In the modern, rapidly evolving corporate en...

While vision transformers show promise in numerous image restoration (IR) tasks, the challenge remains in efficiently generalizing and scaling up a model for multiple IR tasks. To strike a balance between efficiency and model capacity for a generalized transformer-based IR method, we propose a hierarchical information flow mechanism for image resto...

Urban sustainability and food security remain pressing issues for cities across the world. Here, we argue that adapting rewilding to urban contexts unlocks new solutions for societal challenges. Rewilding is an established paradigm in ecological restoration, with the goal of restoring autonomous biotic and abiotic agents and processes. However, urb...

This paper proposes an efficient encoding framework based on Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding (SHVC) technology, which supports both low- and high-resolution 2D videos as well as stereo 3D (S3D) video simultaneously. Previous studies have introduced Cross-View SHVC, which encodes two videos with different viewpoints and resolutions using a Cro...

Blind all-in-one image restoration models aim to recover a high-quality image from an input degraded with unknown distortions. However, these models require all the possible degradation types to be defined during the training stage while showing limited generalization to unseen degradations, which limits their practical application in complex cases...

In this research, we compared thermochronological and traditional one-dimensional thermal models across the Middle Magdalena Valley (MMV), Eastern Cordillera, and Eastern Llanos Basins in Colombia. These models allow us to relate cooling/heating histories to exhumation events, subsidence, fault activities, and fluid flow. The Eastern Cordillera and...

Giant Resonances are, with nuclear rotations, the most evident expression of collectivity in finite nuclei. These two categories of excitations, however, are traditionally described within different formal schemes, such that vibrational and rotational degrees of freedom are separately treated and coupling effects between those are often neglected....

The efficacy of address space layout randomization has been formally demonstrated in a shared-memory model by Abadi et al., contingent on specific assumptions about victim programs. However, modern operating systems, implementing layout randomization in the kernel, diverge from these assumptions and operate on a separate memory model with communica...

I derive constraints on the Dirac spectrum in the chirally symmetric phase of a gauge theory with two massless fermion flavors. Using only general properties of correlation functions of scalar and pseudoscalar bilinears, I prove that in the chiral limit of vanishing fermion mass m the corresponding susceptibilities and all their derivatives with re...

Recent advancements in all-in-one image restoration models have revolutionized the ability to address diverse degradations through a unified framework. However, parameters tied to specific tasks often remain inactive for other tasks, making mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures a natural extension. Despite this, MoEs often show inconsistent behavi...

The history of studying the most important lapidary inscription of Olbia, the catalogue of eponyms IOSPE I2 201, is considered. The current state of research on this remarkable monument is shown selectively compared with monuments of lapidary, magical, ceramic, and numismatic epigraphy.

Viscoelastic (VE) dampers are capable of dissipating energy over a variety of input vibration frequencies. They supplement both displacement‐ and velocity‐dependent restoring forces, thus, provide both stiffness and damping to the structure. For this, they are able to effectively mitigate both frequently occurring wind loads and seismic forces. The...

Introduction: Direct composite resin restorations have become increasingly popular in current day dental practice due to its superior aesthetics and properties. Filtek TM Bulk Fill Posterior and Xtra Fill are posterior bulk fill composites that provide excellent strength and is claimed to achieve 5 mm depth of cure. There is very little evidence av...

The relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry has evolved significantly over the years, raising concerns about ethical practices in medical prescribing. This article explores the multifaceted influence of pharmaceutical companies on physician behaviour, highlighting how marketing strategies, financial incentives, and promotion...

In space environments, radiation particles affect the stored values of SRAM cells, and these effects, such as single-event upsets (SEUs) and single-event multiple-node upsets (SEMNUs), pose a threat to the reliability of systems used in the space industry. To mitigate the impacts of SEUs and SEMNUs, this paper proposes the Read Stability Improved a...

Ecosystem restoration will increase following the ambitious international targets, which calls for a rigorous evaluation of restoration effectiveness. Here, we present results from a long-term before-after control-impact experiment on the restoration of forestry-drained boreal peatland ecosystems. Our data comprise 151 sites, representing six ecosy...

In this editorial we comment on the article by Safwan M et al. We especially fo-cused on the cardiac function restoration by the use of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) therapy for heart failure (HF), which has emerged as a new treatment approach as "Living Biodrugs". HF remains a significant clinical challenge due to the heart's inability to pump blo...

Taking face image restoration in digital image processing course as an example, a comprehensive experiment is designed. Through practical operation, the students' enthusiasm for research in the field of image restoration is cultivated. In the experimental part, the damaged image was repaired by using the image repair technique based on structure an...

Studies on the germination of Caribbean cacti are essential for conservation and ecological restoration programs. We evaluated the seed traits and germination response of Pilosocereus robinii under five temperatures and two light conditions and compared the vigor of the seedlings obtained. Seminal traits showed characteristics of orthodox seeds. Pi...

112 年 12 月 26 日；第一次修正：113 年 1 月 22 日； 第二次修正：113 年 2 月 16 日；接受日期：113 年 3 月 1 日 摘要 農業景觀具心理恢復潛力，也是遊客與農村聯結的重要元素，了解遊客對農業景觀的心 理恢復與地方依附關係有必要性。目前雖有少數知覺恢復性與地方依附關係的文獻，但缺乏 兩者關係一致性之結果與少有兩者關係在農業景觀的調查。因此，本研究以治療性景觀為基 礎，整合注意力恢復和地方依附觀點，提出知覺恢復性、正向情緒、記憶性和地方依附的研 究架構進行調查，也探討正向情緒和記憶性在知覺恢復性與地方依附間的中介角色。以臺東 池上鄉稻田景觀實證，共 406 份有效問卷。結果顯示，除知覺恢復性對地方依附無顯著影響 外，其餘變項間關係皆顯著，正向情緒和記憶性在...

Chiral effective theory of light diquarks is revisited. We construct an effective Lagrangian based on the linear representation of three-flavor chiral symmetry. Here, we focus on the effect of a chiral and $U(1)_A$ symmetric term originated from an eight-point quark interaction. From this model, we obtain the mass formulas of scalar, pseudoscalar,...

Black hole (BH) mergers are natural sources of gravitational waves (GWs) and are possibly associated with electromagnetic events. Such events from a charged rotating BH with an accretion on to it could be more energetic and ultra-short-lived if the magnetic force dominates the accretion process because the attraction of ionized fluid with a strong...

Deep learning-based models for All-In-One Image Restoration (AIOR) have achieved significant advancements in recent years. However, their practical applicability is limited by poor generalization to samples outside the training distribution. This limitation arises primarily from insufficient diversity in degradation variations and scenes within exi...

Objectives The main objective was to develop and evaluate an artificial intelligence (AI) model for tooth segmentation in magnetic resonance (MR) scans. Material and Methods MR scans of 20 patients performed with a commercial 64-channel head coil with a T1-weighted 3D-SPACE (Sampling Perfection with Application Optimized Contrasts using different f...

As an innovative computational imaging technique proposed in recent years, spatial-frequency shift (SFS) technique shifts the high-frequency components into the passband of the system, thereby successfully overcoming the intrinsic trade-off between resolution and field-of-view (FOV). However, in practical far-field SFS scenarios, the extended propa...

Background VYC‐25L is a robust, structural hyaluronic acid (HA) filler designed for facial volumizing, lifting, and contouring. It was first approved in 2019. Methods A group of doctors with various specialties, who have used VYC‐25L extensively since it first became available in their countries (3–5 years), share clinical experience and guidance...

Rapid urbanization has heightened attention fatigue and physiological stress among urban residents. However, high-density urban construction, mainly covered by streets, squares/plazas, and buildings, in particular, poses a challenge to traditional restoration dominated by green infrasturcture. This research aims to conduct a systematic review of th...

2023–24 Nelson-based seagrass flower surveys to inform seed-based restoration in Aotearoa New Zealand

A subset of machine learning algorithm called Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) enables computers or agents to learn behavior by taking actions in a given environment through trial and error while observing the rewards. In this learning paradigm, the agent is given a set of actions to chose and is then rewarded or punished depending on the results...

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the anatomical and visual outcomes of patients with stage IV full-thickness macular holes (FTMHs) treated by the cabbage leaf inverted internal limiting membrane (ILM) flap technique. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study, enrolling patients with stage IV FTMH operated by a single surgeon....

This study explores the efficacy of high‐density pulsed electric current (HDPEC) in healing plastic deformation damage in single‐crystal Ni‐based superalloys. Single‐crystal specimens are prepared from directionally solidified nickel‐based superalloy to assess the potential of electric current treatment in restoring plastic deformation capability....

The increasing resistance in Aphis gossypii field populations to sulfoxaflor and many different types of insecticides represents a significant challenge in protecting cotton production in China. Although resistant pests were able to regain their susceptibility to insecticides after the reduction in insecticide applications, some of their biological...

Anemia is a major clinical manifestation seen in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Treatment options for anemia in low‐risk MDS are limited. Especially, oral medication which is uniformly effective for anemia in low‐risk MDS is required. Hypoxia‐inducible factor (HIF) prolyl hydroxylase (HIF‐PH) inhibitors, such as daprodustat, are oral tablets effe...

We study the mass exchange between two rotating, quantum massive vortices in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate. The vortices, in the majority component, exhibit a filled core, where the in-filling minority component undergoes a quantum tunneling effect. Remarkably, we observe that the two-vortex system features stable Josephson oscillations,...

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During the opening phase of the Irish civil war, Dublin’s O’Connell Street was subjected to large-scale destruction of properties and businesses for the second time since the 1916 Rising. Utilizing newly available compensation claims as well as state and local government records, this article examines four aspects of the post-civil war restoration...

Background/Objectives: Iron-fortified foods reduce the incidence of iron deficiency anemia. However, the nutritional efficacy of heme iron fortificants is unclear. Methods: In this study, we determined the hemoglobin regeneration efficiency (HRE) of a porcine-derived heme iron powder (HIP), treating anemic rats (hemoglobin (Hb) 3-6 g/dL) with 14-da...

Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) reduces energy consumption and enhances economic benefits by recycling road materials, making it an effective approach for the sustainable use of solid waste resources. The performance of reclaimed asphalt pavement is significantly affected not only by the degradation of asphalt binders due to aging but also by the...

For the first of its kind in the history of tropical dry deciduous forests of Telangana State, the straight-line winds on August 31, 2024 led to the uprooting of thousands of trees, severely caused the damage to stratification and timber loss in Eturnagaram wildlife sanctuary, Mulugu district, Telangana, India

As a very common type of video, face videos often appear in movies, talk shows, live broadcasts, and other scenes. Real-world online videos are often plagued by degradations such as blurring and quantization noise, due to the high compression ratio caused by high communication costs and limited transmission bandwidth. These degradations have a part...

Purpose Recent development in positron emission tomography (PET) dramatically increased the effective sensitivity by increasing the geometric coverage leading to total-body PET imaging. This encouraging breakthrough brings the hope of ultra-low dose PET imaging equivalent to transatlantic flight with the assistance of deep learning (DL)-based metho...

The security of web servers, particularly those handling sensitive information like internet banking and personal data, has become increasingly critical in mitigating risks from hacking and unauthorized access. This paper proposes a theoretical design for a secure server system to address these challenges. The design is based on a structured networ...

Burnout hurts morale and effectiveness at work. Balance, resilience, and motivation can be restored through thoughtful leadership, open communication, and flexible strategies. This can help create a supportive and successful team atmosphere.

Recent developments in All-in-One (AiO) RGB image restoration and prompt learning have enabled the representation of distinct degradations through prompts, allowing degraded images to be effectively addressed by a single restoration model. However, this paradigm faces significant challenges when transferring to hyperspectral image (HSI) restoration...

Exotic tree species, though widely used in forestry and restoration projects, pose great threats to local ecosystems. They need to be replaced with native species from natural forests. We hypothesized that natural forests contain large, fast-growing, dominant native tree species that are suitable for specific topographic conditions in forestry. We...

As civil infrastructures often exhibit nonlinearities, the identification of nonlinear behaviors is crucial to assess the structural safety state. However, existing physics-driven methods can only estimate the nonlinear parameters given a known nonlinear behavior pattern. By contrast, the data-driven methods can merely map the load-response relatio...

To improve the fluorescence properties of covalent organic framework (COF) materials, core–shell SiO2@COF composite was prepared, in which SiO2 was used as inner substrate, and BMTH (2,5-bis (2-methoxyethoxy) p-phenylhydrazide) and HB (2-hydroxy-1,3,5-phenyltrialdehyde) acted as precursors to construct COFBMTH-HB layer on the surface of SiO2. Compa...

Ecosystem restoration is widely recognized as a key strategy to address social-ecological challenges. National governments have pledged to restore millions of hectares of land. However, the ability to accomplish these pledges remains opaque, because restoration efforts are influenced by complex social-ecological factors. We provide a global analysi...

For the first time, we estimate the in-medium mass shift of the two-flavored heavy mesons B c , B c * , B s , B s * , D s , and D s * in symmetric nuclear matter. The estimates are made by evaluating the lowest order one-loop self-energies. The enhanced excitations of intermediate state heavy-light mesons in symmetric nuclear matter are the origin...

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean reconstruction given the degraded observation. Recently, modern pretrained diffusion models have been used for...

The Mamba-based image restoration backbones have recently demonstrated significant potential in balancing global reception and computational efficiency. However, the inherent causal modeling limitation of Mamba, where each token depends solely on its predecessors in the scanned sequence, restricts the full utilization of pixels across the image and...

The tourism industry is at a critical juncture. While it has long driven economic growth, cultural exchange, and global connectivity, it has also contributed to environmental damage, cultural loss, and social inequality. In the face of challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss, a new approach to tourism is urgently needed. This is where...

Considering that previous literature has focused on the structure, performance space, and acoustic design of ancient and modern theater buildings but neglected the changes, contexts, sound transmission characteristics of performances, and the connections between them, This study aims to investigate the factors that have influenced the evolution of...

Coral reefs are highly productive ecosystems that provide valuable services to coastal communities worldwide. However, both local and global anthropogenic stressors, threaten the coral-algal symbiosis that enables reef formation. This breakdown of the symbiotic relationship, known as bleaching, is often triggered by cumulative cell damage. UV and h...

In recent decades, China’s large-scale stock enhancement programs to restore the collapsing large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) fishery resources have not yielded the desired results, and a comprehensive analysis of the underlying reasons for this problem is required. Based on small yellow croaker (Larimichthys polyactis) catch survey data o...

In this paper, we combine the deep image prior (DIP) framework with a style transfer (ST) technique to propose a novel approach (called DIP-ST) for image inpainting of artworks. We specifically tackle cases where the regions to fill in are large. Hence, part of the original painting is irremediably lost, and new content must be generated. In DIP-ST...

We introduce a family of random matrices where correlations between matrix elements are induced via interaction-derived Boltzmann factors. Varying these yields access to different ensembles. We find a universal scaling behavior of the finite-size statistics characterized by a heavy-tailed eigenvalue distribution whose extremes are governed by the F...

The virtual restoration of historic murals holds immense importance in the realm of cultural heritage preservation. Currently, there are three primary technical issues. First and foremost, it is imperative to delineate the precise location where the mural necessitates restoration. Second, the original color of the mural has changed over time, resul...

The coastal regions of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) are crucial links for the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road". Nonetheless, this region is facing significant ecological challenges due to natural disasters and intensive human activity. To effectively monitor and assess the ecological health of these critical coastal zones, this stud...