We demonstrated a three-dimensional (3D) dental scanning apparatus based on structured illumination. A liquid lens was used for tuning focus and a piezomotor stage was used for the shift of structured light. A simple algorithm, which detects intensity modulation, was used to perform optical sectioning with structured illumination. We reconstructed a 3D point cloud, which represents the 3D coord...

Building on the results of our computer simulation we develop a theoretical description of the motion of a bead, embedded in a network of semiflexible polymers, and responding to an applied force. The theory reveals the existence of an osmotic restoring force, generated by the piling up of filaments in front of the moving bead and first deduced through computer simulations. The theory predicts ...

Classification is an important supervised learning technique with numerous applications. We develop an angle-based multicategory distance-weighted support vector machine (MDWSVM) classification method that is motivated from the binary distance-weighted support vector machine (DWSVM) classification method. The new method has the merits of both support vector machine (SVM) and distance-weighted d...

Absolutely. And with such a high volume of used personal protective equipment (PPE) piling up across the globe, one Indian fashion designer has decided to put her skills good use by turning PPE offcuts into mattresses for patients covid-19. Lakshmi Menon had brainwave after hearing that covid …

Millions of dollars are spent each year to replace decayed marine piling. The primary avenue of decay infection is through the ends where untreated wood is exposed after piles are cut off. Thus, several fungicides were evaluated for their ability to protect the top cutoff end of creosoted Douglas-fir piles from decay. Supple­ mentary treatment with a 20 percent ammonium bi­ fluoride solution or...

In this paper, we propose a new symmetric key block cipher SC2000 with 128-bit block length and 128-,192-,256-bit key lengths. The block cipher is constructed by piling two layers: one is a Feistel structure layer and the other is an SPN structure layer. Each operation used in two layers is S-box or logical operation, which has been well studied about security. It is a strong feature of the cip...

In this paper, the dynamic analysis of mental sweating for sound stimulus of a few tens of eccrine sweat glands is performed by the time-sequential piled-up en-face optical coherence tomography (OCT) images with the frame spacing of 3.3 sec. In the experiment, the amount of excess sweat can be evaluated simultaneously for a few tens of sweat glands by piling up of all the en-face OCT images. St...