OBJECTIVE To determine if there is a significantly different effect on vertical changes during phase I palatal expansion treatment using a quad helix and a bonded rapid maxillary expander in growing skeletal Class I and Class II patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study looked at 2 treatment groups, a quad helix group and a bonded rapid maxillary expander group, before treatmen...

The quad processor core is a design philosophy that has become a mainstream in Scientific and engineering applications. Increasing performance and gate capacity of recent FPGA devices permit complex logic systems to be implemented on a single programmable device. The Embedded multiprocessors face a new problem with thread safety [5]. It is caused by the shared memory, when thread safety is viol...

BACKGROUND Our objectives are to analyse and to compare the stress distribution and displacement of the craniofacial structures, following the application of forces from quad-helix and Nickel Titanium Palatal Expander-2 (NPE2) using finite element analysis. METHODS Three-dimensional finite element models of young dried human skull, quad-helix appliance and NPE2 were constructed, and the initi...

We propose a new technique for quad-dominant remeshing which separates the local regularity requirements from the global alignment requirements by working in two steps. In the first step, we apply a slight variant of variational shape approximation in order to segment the input mesh into patches which capture the global structure of the processed object. Then we compute an optimized quad-mesh f...

progression in lymphadenopathy, the appearance/worsening of “B” symptoms, and elevated levels of lactate dehydrogenase, as well as histological features requiring a new tissue biopsy. The incidence of Richter syndrome in patients with CLL is 2% to 9%. Most frequently, CLL transforms into diffuse large B cell lymphoma, while in only 0.4% of patients will CLL transform to Hodgkin’s lymphoma [4]. ...

Finite element approximation to a decoupled formulation for the quad-curl problem is studied in this paper. The difficulty of constructing elements with certain conformity quad–curl problems has been greatly reduced. For convex domains, where regularity assumption holds Stokes equation, curl true solution quadratic order convergence and first energy norm. If shows singularity, an posterior erro...

Synthetic Aperture (SA) imaging, including holographic aperture ladar (HAL), synthetic aperture ladar (SAL), and combinations thereof; are promising solutions for long range imaging applications. One of the major difficulties with real-world SA imaging is coherently processing the image information in the presence of atmospheric turbulence. Differential SAL imaging was proposed and patented in ...

The differences in gene expression among the fiber types of skeletal muscle have long fascinated scientists, but for the most part, previous experiments have only reported differences of one or two genes at a time. The evolving technology of global mRNA expression analysis was employed to determine the potential differential expression of approximately 3,000 mRNAs between the white quad (white ...