The paper presents research on expedient repairs, including battle damage repair methods of hydro-pneumatic pipes with adhesives. According to analyzed publications concerning battle damage of military equipment, various pipes and lines, which are used in military vehicles and aircrafts, are one of the most often damaged parts during combat operations. During experimental tests, the efficiency ...

UNLABELLED Oral incompetence following composite reconstruction of total and subtotal lower lip defects without any functioning lower lip muscle is a difficult problem for reconstructive surgeons. The authors retrospectively reviewed the use of a novel bilateral temporalis suspension technique for oral incompetence following lower lip reconstruction over a 10-year period. The timing of the reco...

We present a new methodology to derive faster composite operations of the form dP + Q, where d is a small integer ≥ 2, for generic ECC scalar multiplications over prime fields. In particular, we present an efficient Doubling-Addition (DA) operation that can be exploited to accelerate most scalar multiplication methods, including multiscalar variants. We also present a new precomputation scheme ...

Tele-robotics is an area of robotics concerned with the control of robots from a distance, chiefly using wireless connections like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the Deep Space Network, ‘tethered’ connections, or the Internet. Most tele-robotic systems are teleoperated which means that it relies on the human operator’s capabilities. Many aspects like limited perception, cognitive workload, mental capacity, ...

The weighted constraint satisfaction problem (WCSP) occurs in the crux of many real-world applications of operations research, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, etc. Despite its importance as a combinatorial substrate, many attempts for building an efficient WCSP solver have been largely unsatisfactory. In this paper, we introduce a new method for encoding a (Boolean) WCSP instance as an...

Connected sum and trivalent vertex are natural operations on genus 2 spatial graphs and, as with knots, tunnel number behaves in interesting ways under these operations. We prove sharp Scharlemann-Schultens type bounds for the of a composite graph. For Brunnian $\theta$-curve, our result implies that is at least summands, knot case. also version theorem Morimoto knots: m-small graph numbers fac...

Vascularized composite allotransplantation is a continuously evolving area of modern transplant medicine. Recently, vascularized composite allografts (VCAs) have been formally classified as 'organs'. In this review, key aspects of VCA procurement are discussed, with a special focus on interaction with the procurement of classical solid organs. In addition, options for a matching and allocation ...

A graph of size n is said to be graceful when is possible toassign distinct integers from {0, 1, . . . , n} to its verticesand {|f(u)−f(v)| : uv ∈ E(G)} consists of n integers. Inthis paper we present broader families of graceful graphs; these families are obtained via three different operations: the third power of a caterpillar, the symmetric product of G and K2 , and the disjoint union of G a...

background and objective: ovarian tumors are among the most frequent pathologic conditions in gynecologic practice and a frequent cause of hospitalization and surgery. the aim of this study was to determine histologic distribution of benign operated masses especially functional ovarian cysts. material and methods: benign ovarian files of operated patients (2961 cases) in 20 tertiary and seconda...

The aim of this project is to demonstrate the feasibility and the advantages of a new kind of learning environment for vocational training in production engineering. Based on the combination of real world phenomena and virtual world simulations through a Graspable User Interface it will be possible to freely change between operations on real physical objects and their virtual counterparts. Thes...