The peculiar construction of the temporomandibular joint allows the mandible to move according to six degrees of freedom. In Dental Medicine, is essential to know this movement to simulate the temporomandibular joints, to position tooth moulds in articulators and to reproduce the mandibular movements in order to insure a satisfactory occlusion. In this work a facial arc, commonly used in Dental...

In this paper we address the problem of f inding the spatial position and orientation of an object from a single image. It is assumed that the image formation process and an object model are known in advance. Sets of image lines are backprojected and constraints on their spatial interpretations are derived. A search space is then constructed where each node represents a space feature with a mod...

It is believed that almost any pair of people in the world can be connected to one another by a short chain of intermediate acquaintances, of typical length about six. This phenomenon, colloquially referred to as the “six degrees of separation”, has been the subject of considerable interest within the physics community in recent years.

We examine how vertical separation affects the lobbying activities for the access charge of essential facilities. First, when investigating a model where the number of new entrants is fixed, we find that vertical separation either increases or decreases the access charge, and that this depends on the relative efficiency between the incumbent and the new entrants, and the number of entrants. Sec...

It is believed that almost any pair of people in the world can be connected to one another by a short chain of intermediate acquaintances, of typical length about six. This phenomenon, colloquially referred to as the " six degrees of separation, " has been the subject of considerable recent interest within the physics community. This paper provides a short review of the topic.

This paper exposes the experimental evaluation of a new technique for the estimation of the instantaneous helical axis of movement of human anatomical joints. The measurement technique, using a six degrees of freedom spatial electro-goniometer, is tested onto a simple revolute joint and onto a subject’s knee. A motion capture system with active optical markers is used at the same time in order ...

In this paper global and local separation theorems for a class of retarded nonlinear systems are investigated. Copyright @ IFAC

October 30, 2007 Version 1.2.4 Date 2007-10-30 Title random cluster generation (with specified degree of separation) Author Weiliang Qiu , Harry Joe . Maintainer Weiliang Qiu Depends R (>= 2.0.0), MASS Description The package contains functions for generating random clusters, generating random covariance/correlation matr...