purpose: to determine stereopsis with local (titmus) and global (tno) tests in symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects according to induced disparity (crossed or uncrossed). methods: in this cross sectional study, 80 students of zahedan university of medical sciences who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were randomly selected. at first, refractive error was determined by retinoscopy and then base...

a method based on machine vision system (mvs) is hereby employed to evaluate grape drying through an assessment of the fruit’s shrinkage and quality during the dehydration. experimental data as well as captured images are obtained at an air velocity of 1.4 m s-1 and different drying temperatures (50, 60, 70ºc). the results indicated the effect of temperature on the moisture content, shrinkage a...

due to their advantages, omni-directional mobile robots have found many applications especially in robotic soccer competitions. however, omni directional navigation system, omni-vision system and kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. this situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensive omni directional mobile robot. such...

Although the overall success rate of implant dentistry is very high, dental implants occasionally fail. It is essential for the clinician to recognize unhealthy implants and to determine whether they are ailing, failing, or failed prior to beginning any salvage efforts. Ailing and failing implants are amenable to therapy. Implants diagnosed as failed should be removed. This review provides the ...

he guidelines project is a joint initiative of the Associação édica Brasileira and the Conselho Federal de Medicina. It aims o bring together information in medicine to standardize onduct in order to help decision-making during treatment. he data contained in this article were prepared by and re recommended by the Associação Brasileira de Hematologia, emoterapia e Terapia Celular (ABHH). Even s...

Modern database management systems are designed to promote the controlled sharing of information. Each individual user has his own view of the data and acts as if he were the only user of the system. While database technology has emphasized the management of textural data, in the past few years there has been much interest in the ability to manage non-textual data. This interest from the databa...