BACKGROUND The authors conducted a literature review to evaluate immediate transverse, anteroposterior, and vertical dental and skeletal changes produced by rapid maxillary expansion (RME). TYPES OF STUDIES REVIEWED The authors reviewed clinical trials that assessed immediate dental and/or skeletal changes after RME using cephalometric analysis, model casts or both. No surgical or other simul...

We investigate the aggregation phase of multicriteria decision making procedures. Characterizations of some classes of nonconventional aggregation operators are established. The first class consists of the ordered weighted averaging operators (OWA) introduced by Yager. The second class corresponds to the weighted maximum defined by Dubois and Prade. The dual class (weighted minimum) and some or...

A CAD tool, MOSGRAD, that can be used to simulate the effects of distributed two-dimensional systematic and random variations in device parameters on the performance of matchingcritical circuits has been developed. In addition to applications for layouts with conventional rectangular transistors, this tool can predict the performance of non-conventional circuit structures in which multiple drai...

This paper addresses the problem of reconstructing an image from 1-bit-quantized measurements, considering a simple but nonconventional optical acquisition model. Following a compressed-sensing design, a known pseudo-random phase-shifting mask is introduced at the aperture of the optical system. The associated reconstruction algorithm is tailored to this mask. Our results demonstrate the feasib...

The contribution refers a tworobots system purposely designed to clean internal environments subjected to hygiene regulations. The mechanical design oriented to the life cycle has been developed. The tests and validation of the various solutions considered has been carried out using different simulation and virtual reality tools. Virtual mock-up is efficient design help when, as the present pro...