Introduction. It was previously demonstrated that abnormal neuromuscular function can disturb the development of an optimal dentofacial pattern. Objectives. The role of the present study was to investigate the effect of myofunctional appliances in the interception of malocclusion. Material and method. The role of myofunctional trainers in the interception of malocclusion was evaluated. We prese...

Fully reflective systems have the notion of a control transfer from base-level code to meta-level code in order to change the behavior of the base-level system. There exist various opinions on how the programming model of a meta architecture has to look like. A common necessity of all models and systems is the need to intercept messages and operations, such as the creation of objects. We analyz...

The Eternal system is a CORBA 2.0-compliant system that enhances the CORBA standard with replication and thus fault tolerance. The novel interception approach implemented in the Eternal system involves capturing IIOPspecific system calls made by the ORB, and subsequently mapping these calls onto a reliable multicast group communication system. The motivation for the use of this approach is that...

In performing risk assessments for plant protection products by applicants or regulators in relation to the registration of the products, an important aspect to take into account is the foliar interception and retention of the active substance of the product on the plant. An overview is given of the approaches to this item in several parts of the world. The relevant circumstances and influencin...

SPLIT is a simple prototype Lawful Interception software system which is used to evaluate the viability of using both standard network cards and specialised monitoring hardware for the purpose. Lawful Interception requires reliable packet capture, filtering and protocol analysis on high bandwidth links. While standard NICs can take on these various roles, their performance is only adequate in c...

TsinghuAeolus is the champion team for the latest two RoboCup simulation league competitions. While our binary and nearly full source code for RoboCup 2001 had been publicly available for the entire year, we won the champion again in Fukuka, with more obvious advantage. This paper describes the key innovations that bring this improvement. They include an advice-taking mechanism which aims to im...

The estimation model was constructed to estimate the evapotranspiration and canopy interception from the forest stand using the parameters showing the forest structure such as stem density, tree height and leaf area index. This model is expected to have the ability to estimate the effect of forest management such as stem thinning and leaf amount control. Comparing the calculated rate by this mo...

The aim of this study was to identify the most significant stand parameters affecting net forest precipitation and interception loss in Scots pine stands and to develop multiple linear regression models (MLR) that can be used for practical purposes to predict net forest precipitation and interception rates in northern Germany using forest inventory data and gross precipitation. In the model, th...

Reaching movements towards an object are continuously guided by visual information about the target and the arm. Such guidance increases precision and allows one to adjust the movement if the target unexpectedly moves. On-going arm movements are also influenced by motion in the surrounding. Fast responses to motion in the surrounding could help cope with moving obstacles and with the consequenc...

-Lightning protection air terminals are placed on structures and other grounded objects with the purpose of capturing the lightning stroke. A well estimation of the lateral protection distance is crucial in predicting the protection area of the lightning rod. This paper focus on a 3-D numerical modelling of lightning attachment based on physical phenomena leading to the formation and the develo...