The goal of this research is to explore implicit and explicit processes in shaping an individual’s characteristic behavioral patterns, that is, personality. The questions addressed are how psychological processes may be separated into implicit and explicit types, and how such a separation figures into personality. In particular, it focuses on the role of instinct and intuition (two kinds of mos...

We present a novel technique for localizing a polyhedral object in a robot hand by integrating visual and tactile data. Localization is performed by matching a hybrid set of visual and tactile features with corresponding model features. The matching process "rst determines a subset of the object's six degrees of freedom (DOFs) using the tactile feature. The remaining DOFs, which cannot be deter...

Purpose: Previous studies have shown that cervical column morphology is related to head posture, which is associated with craniofacial morphology such as mandibular rotation pattern. Furthermore, cervical column deviations and fusions have been linked with vertical and sagittal facial morphology. In addition, skeletal deep bite may lead to respiratory and swallowing difficulties, aesthetic and ...

In this paper, the problem of achieving 'semi-fuzzy' or 'soft' clustering of multidimensional data is discussed.A technique based on thresholding the results of the fuzzy c-means algorithm is introduced.The proposed approach is analysed and contrasted with the soft clustering method (see S. Z. Selim and M. A. Ismail, Pattern Recognition 17, 559-568) showing the merits of the new method.Separati...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Animal bites are one of the serious threats to human health, leading numerous consequences such as fatal disease of rabies. Given the importance of animal bite throughout the country, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the geographical distribution, time trend and epidemiological characteristics of animal-bite cases in Bardsir County, Iran. Methods: Thi...

AIM The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of astigmatism among a paediatric population. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 322 consecutive patients of the department of Orthodontics and Gnathology, Dental Clinic, University of L'Aquila, were enlisted for the study and 176 were selected according to the exclusion criteria. Pre- treatment diagnostic data, which included radi...

BACKGROUND Papular urticaria caused by flea bite presents clinical symptoms of a hypersensitivity reaction accompanied by skin lesions. However, the pattern of recognition by different antibody isotypes during the progression of the disease is unknown. This study evaluated variations in immunoglobulin E and immunoglobulin G subclass antibody responses to flea antigens during the progression of ...

We report acute tetraplegia caused by rat bite fever in a 59-year old man (snake keeper) and transmission of Streptobacillus moniliformis. We found an identical characteristic bacterial pattern in rat and human samples, which validated genotyping-based evidence for infection with the same strain, and identified diagnostic difficulties concerning infection with this microorganism.

The purpose of the current report is to present 6-year long-term stability and 10-year follow-up data for an adult patient who was treated with a tongue elevator for relapsed anterior open-bite. The 19-year-old male patient presented with the chief complaint of difficulty in chewing his food. Collectively, clinical and radiographic examinations revealed an anterior open-bite, low tongue posture...