INTRODUCTION Fixed orthodontic appliances, despite years of research and development, still raise a lot of controversy because of its potentially destructive influence on enamel. Therefore, it is necessary to quantitatively assess the condition and therein the thickness of tooth enamel in order to select the appropriate orthodontic bonding and debonding methodology as well as to assess the qual...

Introduction: High-resolution MR image-based micro finite-element modeling (μFE) is a valuable tool for estimating bone mechanical alterations due to disease or drug intervention [1,2]. However, large-scale models require significant computing resources, both in terms of memory and CPU time. Workstations with up to 4GB of RAM and up to 8 processors are becoming widely available, enabling FE sim...

Solid-state disks are currently based on NAND flash and expose a standard disk interface. To accommodate limitations of the medium, solid-state disk implementations avoid rewriting data in place, instead exposing a logical remapping of the physical storage. We present an alternative way to use flash storage, where an append interface is exposed directly to software. We motivate how an append in...

Introduction The segmentation of brain white matter through clustering of tractography data is a problem that has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Approaches to date have succeeded in identifying the major white matter structures from diffusion tensor tractography, but suffer from a number of limitations, including the dependence upon definition of regions of interest, use of a...

This presentation quantitatively compares paper and electronic media from the perspectives of CO2 emissions and work efficiency. Should we reject paper out of hand based on environmental considerations? Can electronic reading devices replace paper books for leisure and work? I discuss these issues based on various analyses and experiments. Introduction Although the paperless office has been rep...

The Hewlett-Packard Xand V-Class ccNUMA systems appear well suited to exploiting coarse and ne-grained parallelism, using multithreading techniques. This paper brie y summarizes the multilevel memory subsystem for the Xand V-Class platforms. Typical MPP distributed memory programming concerns for the codes under investigation, such as explicit memory localization and load balancing, are compare...

and Applied Analysis 3 a splitting procedure of the box of reflection coefficients, new conditions for the Schur stability are given. The application of Theorem 1.2 for determining the stability of polynomials with multilinear coefficients yield conservative results. In 8, 9 sufficient conditions are given for ensuring that the image of a multilinear function over the box Q is a convex polygon ...

The separation of planner logic from domain knowledge supports the use of reformulation and configuration techniques, such as macro-actions and entanglements, which transform the model representation in order to improve a planner’s performance. One drawback of such an approach is that it may require a potentially expensive training phase. In this paper, we introduce heuristic approaches for the...

Introduction In previous work [1], following the early development of canonical correlation analysis (CCA) methods [2-4], local constrained CCA (cCCA) methods were proposed to utilize the spatial dependence of fMRI data and to avoid model overfitting and loss of specificity. A region-growing based cCCA (cCCA-RG) method was demonstrated to be more computational efficient and to have similar dete...