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Scale

Payment of different rates of interest on CDs of varying maturities. A bank is said to "post a scale." Commercial paper dealers also post scales.

Scale

The range of prices at which an underwriter offers to place with investors a serial bond, where the individual bonds have different maturities.

scale

The schedule of yields (or prices) at which a serial bond issue is offered to the public by the underwriter. The schedule reflects yields at the various maturities being offered. Also called offering scale. See also inverted scale, preliminary scale.

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scale

The relationship between measurements on a plan or map and the dimensions of the physical object represented.One inch might represent 10 feet or 10 miles.Topographic maps contain two scales,one for distance and one for change in elevation.

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The type of dental hygiene procedure was classified as exam (intra- and extra-oral, dental, occlusal, and periodontal, including probing), scaling (manual scaling alone, or exam and manual scaling, but no polishing), complete prophylaxis (examination, scaling and polishing, or scaling and polishing if the examination had been completed at an earlier appointment), and appointments during which ultrasonic scalers, sonic scalers, or air polisher were used.

Bacterial contamination of scrub jackets during dental hygiene procedures

Limiting the set to three instruments makes it simple for the dental hygienist: if they had a wide-based implant, for example, they would pick up the Barnhart 5/6 titanium implant scaler. We made it specific for wide, narrow and specialty implants: the clinician has only to identify what type of implant they're looking at to know which Wingrove instrument to pick up.

Trends in Instrumentation and Instrument Design: Q&A with Susan Wingrove, RDH, BS

A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to determine whether the control, ceramic sharpening stone, and diamond-plated sharpening stone differed with respect to the number of strokes needed to sharpen the scalers and the amount of metal removed as a result of instrument sharpening.

A Comparison of Efficiency and Material Wear of Diamond-Plated versus Ceramic Sharpening Stones

EverEdge 2.0 instruments are available in the popular original EverEdge diamond-knurled, large-diameter handle, as well as the Resin 8 Colors handle, a lightweight resin handle featuring a color-coded system to easily identify scalers and curettes that correspond to areas of the mouth.

Hu-friedy expands Everedge 2.0 line with Gracey Curette designs: EverEdge[R] 2.0 scientifically-proven to be sharpest, longest lasting hand instrumentation

This means you'll need to either use a common video signal or add a converter or scaler into your workflow to make sure your video switcher can see all your video inputs.

How to choose video converters and scalers for live 4k and HD production

Sonic scalers took the longest time to debond a bracket which was on the average of 7022.28 seconds.

COMPARISON OF DEBONDING TIME AND PAIN BETWEEN THREE DIFFERENT DEBONDING TECHNIQUES FOR STAINLESS STEEL BRACKETS

Implacare II: Hu-Friedy re-engineers successful implant scalers

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About all you'll need is a tooth scaler, which you can buy at veterinary supply stores.

Grin and bear it: regular tooth care will give your dog a healthy smile

Unlike larger and more expensive automated scalers the MiniScal Plus does not require a compressed air supply to operate.

Sealing microplates of all types and sizes

Dow Coating Materials has introduced Paraloid B-66 thermoplastic acrylic resin in dimerhyl carbonate (DMC), a pre-mix that is ideal for low-VOC concrete scalers. Dow said the Paraloid B-66 acrylic resin family of products features the benefits of ultra-low VOC as supplied, while providing a lower-cost alternative to VOC-exempt products in t-butyl acetate or PCBTF.

Dow Coating Materials offers dimethyl carbonate pre-mix for low-VOC concrete coatings

For the third year, Calibre UK returns to ISE 2012 with a line-up of processors, scalers, switchers and scan converters.