A significant amount of professional time is wasted during a medical ward round retrieving patient notes from the ward trolley. If the efficiency of this non-clinical, non-functional interaction could be improved it would save time, maintain continuity and have financial implications. One identified constraint was the structure of the traditional ward trolley; a stationary filing tray with vert...

Purpose: To do a clinical evaluation of the results of the treatment of multiple adjacent gingival recessions with VISTA technique (Vestibular Incision Subperiostal Tunnel Access) and platelet-rich fibrin membrane (PRF m). Methods and materials: The study included 30 participants (19 women and 11 men) with multiple adjacent gingival recessions on both jaws of Miller’s Class I and Class II. The ...

In order for agent-based technologies to play an effective role in simulation and trainingsynthetic force applications, they must carry outgenerate realistic and believable behaviors that are virtually indistinguishable from what a human actor might do under the same circumstances. However, systems that are capable of such complex behavior necessarily include complex internal representations an...

VISTO lo Statuto dell'Università degli Studi di Catania; VISTA la Legge 30.12.2010, n° 240, recante "norme in materia di organizzazione delle università, di personale accademico e reclutamento, nonché delega del Governo per incentivare la qualità e l'efficienza del sistema universitario", ed in particolare l'art. 18, co.5, lett. fi VISTA la legge 04.04.2012, n° 35 di "Conversione in legge, con ...

The paper describes the development, implementation and flight testing of the Visual Threat Awareness (VISTA) system and the Multi-layer Architecture for Trajectory Replanning and Intelligent plan eXecution (MATRIX) for autonomous intelligent control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The VISTA system generates information on the threats and obstacles in real-time, and passes it on to the MATR...

RATIONALE Cervicocephalic artery dissections, once considered a rare disease, have become increasingly recognized as a cause of stroke in young and middle-aged individuals. Early diagnosis is mandatory because anticoagulation or antithrombotic therapy can help prevent primary or secondary ischemic events. However, the diagnosis is still a crucial challenge for radiologists and neurologists. P...

BACKGROUND There are few studies for evaluating wall characteristics of intracranial vertebral artery hypoplasia (VAH). The aim of this study was to determine wall characteristics of VAH with three-dimensional volumetric isotropic turbo spin echo acquisition (3D VISTA) images and differentiate between acquired atherosclerotic stenosis and VAH. METHODS Thirty patients with suspicious VAH by lu...