Abstract Aiming at target steel car bumper new lightweight design, with a vehicle static crushing, three pressure and impact test simulation analysis based on the performance parameters, design targets aluminum alloy box, section size of anticollision beam energy absorption materials they need to determine performance. The three-point method is used optimize anti-collision beam. Because loading...

Which non-compliance appliances do you use? Most clinicians reported using more than one appliance. The two most frequently listed were the Forsus (a fatigue-resistant device from Unitek) and the Herbst. Other devices, in decreasing order of usage, were the Hilgers Pendulum, Jasper Jumper, Jones Jig, MARA, and Class II Corrector. Also mentioned were the Mandibular Protrusion Appliance, the Will...

Feeding gastrostomy is used worldwide for adults and children with feeding impairment to obtain long-term enteral nutrition. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion is considered the gold standard, but after the first months requires gastrostomy tube replacement with a low-profile button. The replacement is known as an easy procedure, but several minor and major complications may occur du...

A lateral vehicle localization method by omni-image analysis is proposed for car driving assistance. The method estimates analytically the position and orientation of a lateral vehicle by utilizing the geometric properties of a circular-shaped wheel image of the lateral car taken by a single omni-camera with a hyperboloidal-shaped mirror. Analytical solutions are made possible for fast computat...

This paper discusses a new automated image analysis technique for monitoring and inspecting changes in Thermo-Plastic Olefine (TPO) bumper surfaces. This new technique produces excellent performance and is appropriate for on-line production monitoring as well as laboratory analysis. The objective of this work was to develop an accurate method for determining the paint bake time and temperature ...

You may have seen the bumper sticker "Eve was framed." Thousands of years of being blamed for original sin and still many wonder, where's the evidence? Today, the tumor suppressor adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) may have the same complaint about accusations of a different type of CIN, chromosome instability. A series of recent papers, including three in this journal, propose that loss of APC f...

€ I /aB, the original 15 MA ITER baseline rampup in 110 s scales to 1.7 MA in 2.2 s for DIII-D. For the large-bore ITER scenario, discussed below, a faster ramp is specified corresponding to 1.64 MA in 1.6 s in DIII-D. In DIII-D, there are three poloidal bumper limiters on the LFS, extending 2 cm from the surrounding graphite wall tiles. In DIII-D, the original ITER startup baseline scenario ha...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is an effective and safe mode of enteral nutrition for patients needing chronic enteric nutritional support. Exchanging PEG tubes may result in complications due to inexperience as well as due to lack of protocol. CASE REPORT We encountered a 73 year-old female with unnoticed, accidently detached portion of the internal bumper of a PEG tube...