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BACKGROUND Three-dimensional (3D) printing has numerous applications and has gained much interest in the medical world. The constantly improving quality of 3D-printing applications has contributed to their increased use on patients. This paper summarizes the literature on surgical 3D-printing applications used on patients, with a focus on reported clinical and economic outcomes. METHODS Three...

The era of affordable 3D printing is clearly underway; indeed, the historical patterns of growth in 3D printing are, in many ways, strikingly similar to those associated with the growth of home computing in the late 1970’s. One of the prominent areas of increased interest in 3Dprinting is in the realmof education: fabrication tools are becoming available to college undergraduates and high schoo...

Cell printing is an emerging technique for use in tissue engineering and bio-manufacturing. The essential idea is to deliver living cells to target positions using droplets generated via various mechanisms including thermoor piezo-jetting, laser-guided direct write technique, and others (Boland et al. 2006; Ringeisen et al. 2006; Calvert 2007). By taking advantage of the intrinsic properties of...

In the newspaper printing industry, offset is the dominating printing method and the use of multicolour printing has increased rapidly in newspapers during the last decade. The offset printing process relies on the assumption that an uniform film of ink of right thickness is transferred onto the printing areas. The quality of reproduction of colour images in offset printing is dependent on a nu...

A new approach for the chemical modification of the surface of paper based on the application of colloidal mixtures containing cationic starch and polyoxometalates on uncoated base paper is presented. Polyoxometalates with the Keggin-type structure and physical properties similar to those presented by coating pigments, namely H3PW12O40·23H2O, H4SiW12O40·24H2O, and K7PW11O39·9H2O, have been used...

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies are growing more and in the industry; increase world energy consumption encourages quantification optimization of use additive processes. Orientation part to be printed is very important for reducing consumption. Our work focuses on defining most appropriate direction minimizing In this paper, twelve machine learning (ML) algorithms applied model fused d...