The manufacturing industries dealing with machining and tools' manufacturing generate a large amount of data concerning the machining process. However, in most cases, this information is not used in an advantageous strategy as there is no system dedicated for storing and manipulating such data. In order to Use these data to improve efficiency and increase benefit of machining, the cutting datab...

This study aimed to analyze the knowledge of nursing auxiliaries and technicians in handling and disposing of piercing-cutting material and describe their performance. This qualitative-descriptive research was carried out with three nursing auxiliaries and 12 technicians at a medium-size hospital, totaling 15 participants interviewed through a semi-structured script. Discourse was analyzed thro...

Semi-natural grassland communities are of great interest in conservation because of their high species richness. These communities are being threatened by both land abandonment and nitrogen eutrophication, and their continued existence will depend upon correct management. However, there is a distinct lack of studies of the ecological mechanisms that regulate species diversity and productivity i...

Background and Aim: Management of iron-induced tooth pigmentation is challenging. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of sodium bicarbonate powder and pumice flour for removal of iron-induced pigmentation from primary ante-rior teeth. Materials and Methods: In this in vitro, experimental study, 60 sound primary anterior teeth were collected. After cutting the roots and sealing the pulp ch...

In the resource constrained shortest path problem (RCSPP) a shortest path satisfying additional resource bounds is sought. Each arc has a length and a resource usage vector specifying the requirements from each resource of a finite set of resources. The resource bounds limit the total usage along feasible paths for each resource type. In this paper we introduce new cutting planes, separation pr...

Objective: This review analyzes the scientific findings on main management and environmental factors that increasethe incidence of dark cuts in carcass water buffalo bovine Bos genus. Design/methodology/approach: Scientific articles were obtained from CAB Abstracts, Pubmed, Scopus Google Scholar databases. The primary search was carried out following keywords: Antemortem stress handling,dark cu...

Surgical procedures as a prelude to optical imaging are a rate-limiting step in experimental neuroscience. Towards automation of these procedures, we describe the use of nonlinear optical techniques to create a thinned skull window for transcranial imaging. Metrology by second harmonic generation was used to map the surfaces of the skull and define a cutting path. Plasma-mediated laser ablation...

Current simulations of surgical procedures do not provide haptic feedback of cutting forces felt while using surgical scissors. We have designed and tested “haptic scissors,” an interface that can display forces to a user grasping Metzenbaum scissor handles. By filtering and scaling cutting data obtained in previous work, we have created haptic virtual environments that can simulate the cutting...

We consider enhancing solutions to the fair division problem of cake cutting by proposing a cryptographic protocol preserving the privacy of the players’ preferences in each step. This addresses an important shortcoming of traditional division procedures, that disclose some of the players’ preferences and offer other players the possibility to dynamically adjust their behaviour in order to obta...

Surgical simulation is a promising technology for training medical students and planning procedures. One major requirement for these simulation systems is a method to generate realistic cuts through soft tissue models. This paper describes methods for cutting through tetrahedral models of soft tissue. The cutting surface follows the free form path of the user’s motion, and generates a minimal s...