Frame stability in Ilizarov external fixators is mainly dependent on the tension of the transosseous wires, which are clamped to the ring by connection bolts. It was the purpose of this biomechanical study to investigate the holding capacity of a modified bolt design featuring a ruffled wire-bolt interface (TrueLok™) and its influence on wire stiffness in comparison with that of classic bolts f...

Slotted waveguide antennas (SWA) are often employed in radar applications where design specifications commonly require high gains and mechanical robustness. Since the peak power transmitted by radar antennas is usually very high, waveguide antennas present a practical alternative to planar arrays. While numerous design references and guidelines exist for planar arrays, there are far fewer for s...

The aim of this review is to provide a better understanding of the ways in which ruminants control their voluntary intake of finely-chopped silages. Silages with an excellent conservation quality can be ingested at similar levels to the corresponding fresh or dry forages. Intake levels decrease when conservation quality decreases. The implicated physiological mechanisms for this phenomenon are ...

VESPER 1.5 is a shareware software program, written to provide rigourous spatial prediction techniques for the precision agriculture industry. It offers a range of options to deal with data sets of varying data density, spatial distribution, and observation uncertainty. Such data sets are now gathered from a range of realtime yield, soil and crop sensors and through manual sampling regimes. Spe...

We present several unsupervised statistical models for the prepositional phrase attachment task that approach the accuracy of the best supervised methods for this task. Our unsupervised approach uses a heuristic based on attachment proximity and trains h'om raw text that is annotated with only part-oi;speech tags and morphologicM base forms, as opposed to attachment information. It is therefore...

Figure 1. Fractured maxillary metal-resin fixed complete-arch implantsupported prosthesis. Patient had been treated by another provider and did not have interim or conversion prosthesis. Complete-arch fixed implant-supported prostheses are known to be an excellent solution for edentulism. Although new, stronger materials have evolved, the metal-resin prosthesis using a combination of cast or mi...

Pennation angle (PA) is an important property of human skeletal muscle that plays a significant role in determining the force contribution of fascicles to skeletal movement. Two-dimensional (2D) ultrasonography is the most common approach to measure PA. However, in principle, it is challenging to infer knowledge of three-dimensional (3D) architecture from 2D assessment. Furthermore, architectur...

Monitoring data streams in real time over distributed streaming environments plays a large role in maintaining situation awareness, which is a great challenge due to huge data volumes and bandwidth limitations. In this monitoring process, transmission cost and value accuracy are two very important but conflicting factors in measuring the efficacy of the system. On one hand, increasing value acc...

The present study explored the sensitivity towards bimanual end-state comfort in a task that required anticipating different final grips. Participants simultaneously reached and grasped two objects with either a whole-hand grip (WHG) or a precision grip (PG), and placed them at two target locations by transporting them either over or under an obstacle. The transport path was varied such that it...

Framed Slotted ALOHA (FSA) is an anti-collision technique in the currently most popular standard of RF-ID systems in the UHF domain, the ISO/IEC CD 18000-6. The number of tags present in the field is a crucial parameter to apply FSA algorithms in an optimal manner to achieve the highest detection rate possible. Therefore, a lot of effort is spent on the estimation of this parameter and a range ...