Hardware interface integrity test of an electronic product and validation of a tester’s probing needles is an integral part of a test scenario. Integrity testing is based on a current voltage characteristic measurement, when a small voltage and ( or ) current stimuli are applied to the product pads including power supply circuitry pads, so that the product is not normally powered on. Needles va...

background and aims. the main purpose of this study was to assess intra- and inter-examiner reproducibility of probing depth measurements with a manual periodontal probe. materials and methods. in this study, 32 dental students in tabriz faculty of dentistry with normal periodontium were evaluated. each tooth of the upper right quadrants, except the third molars, was examined. probing depths we...

background and aims. the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of adjunctive photodynamic therapy (pdt) in the treatment of aggressive periodontitis. materials and methods. a total of 24 patients with clinical diagnosis of aggressive periodontitis received scaling and root planing (srp) for periodontal treatment. in a split-mouth design study, the teeth of one quadrant of each arch...

In this paper we introduce a new method for defining preconditioners for the iterative solution of a system of linear equations. By generalizing the class of modified preconditioners (e.g. MILU), the interface probing, and the class of preconditioners related to the Frobenius norm minimization (e.g. FSAI, SPAI) we develop a toolbox for computing preconditioners that are improved relative to a g...

We present a novel method for the robotized probing of plant leaves using Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors. Plant images are segmented into surface patches by combining a segmentation of the infrared intensity image, provided by the ToF camera, with quadratic surface fitting using ToF depth data. Leaf models are fitted to the boundaries of the segments and used to determine probing points and to ev...

Probing is a common operation employed to reduce the position uncertainty of objects. This thesis demonstrates a technique for constructing provably near optimal probing strategies for precisely localizing polygonal parts. This problem is shown to be dual to the well studied grasping problem of computing optimal nger placements as de ned by Mishra et al. [18] and others [11, 17]. A useful quali...