BACKGROUND Mandibular plates may become exposed following radiation therapy, infection, and mucosal necrosis. This may lead to early removal of the mandibular plates with subsequent instability of bone fragments. OBJECTIVE To compare fibrin glue, a bioadhesive, with traditional sutures in closing mucosa over exposed mandibular plates in a cat. DESIGN Prospective matched-pairs analysis. SU...

This work is about the mass and heat transfer flow for adhesive fluid between two upright plates pulled apart by a distance, d. Fractional model of considered problem developed after making governing equations dimensionless. Laplace transform technique utilized to acquire analytical solutions some graphics are presented see physical behavior embedded parameters.

The use of the AO (Arbeitgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesenfragen) veterinary T-plates (1.5/2 mm and 2.7/3.5 mm) for stabilisation of supracotyloid ilial fractures in 18 cats and five dogs was evaluated in a retrospective study. The distal fragment from the coxofemoral joint ranged from 0.5 cm to 1 cm with a mean distance of 0.85 cm. Twenty out of 23 (87%) ilial fractures healed in original alignm...

Vehicle license plate recognition is an image-processing technology used to identify vehicles by their license plates. This technology can be used in various security and traffic applications, such as finding stolen cars, controlling access to car parks and gathering traffic flow statistics. In this paper an approach to license plate localization and recognition is presented. A proposed method ...

Six DOF offset sensing between two plates is important for automatic docking mechanisms. This paper presents an easy and inexpensive implementation of such a system using four commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) infrared (IR) light emitting diode (LED) emitters and two COTS IR receivers on each of two docking plates. The angular intensity distribution of an emitter and the sensitivity distribution ...

Hypersonic rareŽ ed-gas  ows near two side-by-side plates have been studied numerically with the direct simulationMonte Carlo technique under transitional rareŽ ed-gas- ow conditions (Knudsen numbers from 0.024 to 1.8). Strong in uences of the geometrical factor (ratio of distance between plates to plate length) and the Knudsen number on the  ow structure (the shape of shock waves, the conŽ...

In the present research, the effect of standoff distance on corrosion properties of the joint of three aluminum–steel explosive layers has been studied. For this purpose, the samples were welded with various standoff distance under constant explosive load. Optical Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy were used to measure the quality of the joint and type of interface. Furthermore, point ...

In this paper, a safe and powerful method is presented which can detect and identify Farsi license plate irrespective of distance (how far a vehicle is), rotation (angle between camera and vehicle), and contrast (being dirty, reflected, or deformed). In addition, more than one car can be existed in an image. The proposed method extracts edges and then determines the candidate regions by using a...

Certain ocular diseases such as glaucoma cause an increase in the internal pressure of the eye, damaging nerves. An implantable pressure sensor would give patients the ability to monitor their own intraocular pressure and then consult a physician if necessary. One device to do this has been developed using a microscopic Fabry-Perot interferometer with the plates implanted between the intraocula...

Premixed methane-air mixture is introduced at the center of two parallel circular quartz plates separated by a millimeter scale distance (<or= 5mm). Two plates are heated with an external heater to create a positive temperature gradient condition along the flow direction. The combustion characteristics of lean methane-air mixtures are investigated at phi=0.67 and phi=0.85 in the laminar flow re...