Fixed vestibular appliances decrease the "self-cleansing" action of saliva and promote aggregation of dental plaque by disturbing the salivary flow field on tooth surfaces, leading to a higher prevalence of enamel demineralization and periodontal diseases. In the current study, we investigated the salivary dynamic characteristics of plaque retention and periodontal status around appliances duri...

Pervasive Computing is the main characteristic of the emerging fourth era of computer evolution. The paper discusses features of a new generation of intelligent sensor-based information appliances for distributed heterogeneous real-time applications. These appliances will be found in the intelligent homes, offices, automobiles and cities of the future. They will also offer higher mobility and c...

WWW and current Information Technology have made it easy to display a wide variety of content on desktops and personal devices. Unfortunately, little progress has been made for access to the content in public areas. Some technologies, such as Internet Kiosks and narrowcast, enable content access (primarily viewing), but not exchange. There is a growing need to access, adapt, and exchange desire...

This paper presents AppPot, a system for creating Linux software appliances. AppPot can be run as a regular batch or grid job and executed in user space, and requires no special virtualization support in the infrastructure. The main design goal of AppPot is to bring the benefits of a virtualization-based IaaS cloud to existing batch-oriented computing infrastructures. In particular, AppPot addr...

This document proposes the use of SIP for Network-capable appliances. It leverages standard SIP capabilities to directly communicate with appliances even when they are behind firewalls, NATs or other entities that prevent direct end-to-end communication. When combined with the recently proposed Instant Messaging and Presence SIP extensions these techniques become even more powerful to allow the...

The paper proposes an approach to solve the situation. In our approach, we have developed a middleware component to connect several middleware implementing these object-oriented standard speci cations for home computing. Actually, our middleware component makes it possible to connect home appliances adopting HAVi, Jini, or UPnP. Therefore, various home appliances can comm unicate with each other.

Although digital appliances are designed to be easy to use, their users often cannot even perform simple tasks because the devices lack infrastructural support. The Appliance Data Services project seeks to explore the attributes of an appliance computing world and develop the infrastructure required to support users with digital appliances.

Stream interception is becoming an important task in Internet appliances. In this paper we discuss a scheme that can facilitate random access into streams and provide serious performance boost to intercepting filter like appliances under various application scenarios. The scheme we discuss is based on dynamic stream indexing and can be potentially implemented using IPV6 extension header.

Orthodontic appliances modify the local environment of the oral cavity, increase the accumulation of dental plaque, and affect the condition of the gingiva. The aim of this study is assessment of Brazilian propolis toothpaste's effect on plaque index (PLI) and gingival index (GI) in patients with CL/CLP treated using orthodontic appliances in the 35-day study period. The study population includ...

Non-intrusive appliance load monitoring is the process of disaggregating a household’s total electricity consumption into its contributing appliances. In this paper we propose an approach by which individual appliances can be iteratively separated from an aggregate load. Unlike existing approaches, our approach does not require training data to be collected by sub-metering individual appliances...