Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether intra-canal application of controlled direct electric current (DEC) could accelerate the amount of orthodontic tooth movement (OTM) in young adult mixed breed dogs. Methods: Fourth premolars of both jaws of five young adult mixed breed dogs were divided into two groups of control and experimental groups. Orthodontic force...

injection molding is one of the most important and common plastic formation methods. combination of modeling tools and optimization algorithms can be used in order to determine optimum process conditions for the injection molding of a special part. because of the complication of the injection molding process and multiplicity of parameters and their interactive effects on one another, analytical...

One of the hallmarks of the performance, versatility, and robustness of biological motor control is the ability to adapt the impedance of the overall biomechanical system to different task requirements and stochastic disturbances. A transfer of this principle to robotics is desirable, for instance to enable robots to work robustly and safely in everyday human environments. It is, however, not t...

this paper presents a novel control approach used in shunt active power filter based on variable structure control combined with random pwm technique (rvsc) that provides robust, fast, and more favorable performance for active power filter. this control strategy is compared with two other strategies to show the effectiveness of the introduced methods; pulse width modulated proportional-integral...

INTRODUCTION Surface tension is an inherently dominant force in the microscale. Electrocapillarity, the modification of surface tension by applying an electric field, has received renewed attention because of its potential usefulness in microfluidics. Pollack et al. demonstrated a microactuator for rapid manipulation of discrete microdroplets by direct electric control of the surface tension. [...

This study pertains to assessing the effects of electric shocks that are used in the treatment of severe self-injurious behavior. With pain sensation and startle response as the dependent variables and focusing versus distraction of recipient's attention to the electric shocks as the independent variable, these stimuli were administered to 60 paid volunteers. Using ANOVA, no significant effect ...

This paper mainly expounds that using the WINSOCK controller which is provided by VB6.0 to program the procedures in the coop intelligent control system, it introduces the character of the TCP protocol and the UDP protocol, and according to the demands of the system environment to choose the suitable protocol. This system uses the WINSOCK controller and the UDP protocol for network communicatio...

The electric field produced in the brain is the main physical agent of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Inter-subject variations in the electric fields may help to explain the variability in the effects of tDCS. Here, we use multiple-subject analysis to study the strength and variability of the group-level electric fields in the standard brain space. Personalized anatomically-acc...

introduction: public and occupational exposure to extremely low frequency (elf) electric and magnetic fields induced by electrical equipment is a significant issue in the environment and at the workplace due to their potential health effects on public health. the purpose of this study was assessment of the electric and magnetic fields intensities and determination of mental and psychological ef...