AIM This baseline study aims to find out the evaluation of hygienic-sanitary conditions at the level of dental medicine cabinets through the verification of certain hygienic aspects. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study conducted consists in monitoring the hygienic/sanitary conditions at the level of 68 dental medicine cabinets (40 private cabinets and 28 school/university dental cabinets in Iasi c...

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Pervasive telerobotics aims at providing portable computer aided assistance using small, light, and highly interactive client-server telerobots. A reliable real-time multithreaded interface between a master arm and a slave arm is proposed using Distributed Components .NET Remoting. The advantages are (1) automatic handling of the network resources and transfer while isolating the components fro...

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Surgical robotic devices are rapidly achieving widespread use and acceptance. Despite the many benefits of robotic-assisted surgery, it is typical for robot-assisted procedures to take longer. This study investigates the effect of control:response ratio on simple movement time in surgical telerobotic tasks. Robot control interfaces offer "motion scaling" settings but, in practice, this feature ...

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