W hen Java technology burst onto the Internet scene in 1995, its developers declared the ambitious goal of providing a safe programming environment, especially for Web-based, dynamically composed, and mobile applications.1,2 OEM vendors and licensees could port the Java platform to their environment, such as browsers and operating systems, and inherit extensive built-in security features. Java’...

Aim: To summarize briefly, the purpose of this assignment is to study the current state of knowledge of implant immediate loading in order to know when it is possible to use this procedure. Material and Methods: A bibliographic review has been carried out based on prospective, retrospective and systematic review papers published on Pub Med. Conclusions: Implant immediate loading is a procedure ...

A number of in vivo skeletal loading models have been developed to test specific hypotheses addressing the key mechanical and biochemical signals involved in bone's adaptive response to loading. Exercise protocols, osteotomy procedures, loading of surgically implanted pins, and force application through the soft tissues are common approaches to alter the mechanical environment of a bone. Althou...

NetLogo3D is an Agent-Based Simulation which uses a three-dimensional raster as environment its agents. It has three different ways to represent geometry, (1.) as wireframe made out of vertices and edges, (2.) as solid faces or (3.) as voxel grid. Sadly, loading geometry is only supported for the second option, through a proprietary text format for which no converter exists. The other two optio...

Vertical drains and stone columns which have been used in infrastructure construction for highways, ports, coastal regions, etc., provide significant benefits for improving soil characteristics such as reducing the drainage length and accelerating the consolidation process. So the investigation of the radial consolidation is inevitable. Soils may be subjected to cyclic loading such as silos, ta...

BACKGROUND Colistin is a last-line defense therapy against extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (XDR-AB). Despite a loading dose of colistin being applied in many clinical practices, studies evaluating the effect of the loading dose of colistin in cancer patients remain limited. PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective cohort study of cancer patients who received either a loading or...

OBJECTIVES This study was performed to evaluate patterns of failure time after insertion, failure rate according to loading time after insertion, and the patterns of failure after loading. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 331 mini-implants were classified into the non-failure group (NFG) and failure group (FG), which was divided into failed group before loading (FGB) and failed group after lo...

Little research describes which transfemoral socket design features are important for coronal plane stability, socket comfort, and gait. Our study objectives were to (1) relate socket comfort during gait to a rank order of changes in ischial containment (IC) and tissue loading and (2) compare socket comfort during gait when tissue loading and IC were systematically manipulated. Six randomly ass...

The objectives of these studies were to evaluate the loading system effects [traditional chute (TC) vs. prototype loading gantry (PLG)] on i) welfare measures at loading and ii) performance measures and transport losses at the harvest facility for the market-weight pig (Sus scrofa). This study compared first pull (FP), which was the first group of pigs, and close out (CO), which was the last gr...

ABSTRACT: The objectives of these studies were to evaluate the loading system effects [traditional chute (TC) vs. prototype loading gantry (PLG)] on i) welfare measures at loading and ii) performance measures and transport losses at the harvest facility for the marketweight pig (Sus scrofa). This study compared fi rst pull (FP), which was the fi rst group of pigs, and close out (CO), which was ...