OBJECTIVE This preliminary study aimed to propose a new analysis of digital panoramic radiographs for a differential diagnosis between functional and morphological mandibular asymmetry in children with and without unilateral posterior crossbite. METHODS Analysis is based on linear and angular measurements taken from nine anatomic points, demarcated in sequence directly on digital images. A sp...

Finding the global optimum can be challenging. The value located by a deterministic algorithm, such as Newton's method, will depend on the starting point used. Some starting points will lead to the global optimum while others will lead to a local optima. If there are a large number of local optima, nding the global optimum, in the absence of any other information, will largely be a matter of lu...

This article describes a straightforward method to measure the dimensions and identify morphological variations in the cerebral arterial circle using the general-purpose software program Osiris. This user-friendly and portable program displays, manipulates, and analyzes medical digital images, and it has the capability to determine morphometric properties of selected blood vessels (or other ana...

Unidata's network Common Data Form, netCDF, provides users with an e cient set of software for scienti c-data storage, retrieval, and manipulation. The netCDF le format is machine-independent, direct-access, self-describing, and in the public domain, thereby alleviating many problems associated with accessing output from large hydrodynamic models. NetCDF has programming interfaces in both the F...

the purpose the present is the citation and co-authorship analysis of the islam and quranic science researchers in “web of science” database and mapping the scientific structure of this domain between years of 1993–2012.this research is applying and we use scientometric methods and some rules and procedures related to this domain,. histcite™ software was utilized to mapping the structure of sci...

Payments are the locomotive behind any business domain. It has been predicted that mobile payments will become one of the most successful mobile services, and the security of payments is an important requirement. However, it is difficult to strongly authenticate mobile users remotely and provide an adequate level of non-repudiation of transactions. In this article, we argue that a nationwide pu...

Role of self-organizing maps in visualization and analysis of software measures is presented and discussed in this paper. We reveal how self-organizing maps can create a user-friendly and interactive visualization tool that helps software designer to inspect various alternatives and get a thorough insight into the structure of the clusters of the software modules and related metrics. We show ho...

Complex problems, whether scienti c or engineering, are most often solved today by utilizing public domain or commercial libraries or some form of problem solving environment. The task of \selecting" the best software for a targeted application or computation is often di cult and sometimes even intractable. We have proposed an approach for dealing with this issue by \mining" performance data of...