The first solution for addressing this new wire bonding challenge was the matte finish. Along with some geometrical capillary tip modifications, such as the double internal chamfer (IC), these changes proved Cu wire to be a reliable substitute to gold (Au). However, while the welding requirements were achieved, the tool’s resistance to wear deteriorated. This was expected as the hardness of Cu ...

The intramedullary alignment guides used in total knee replacement disrupt the intramedullary vessels, resulting in greater postoperative blood loss. The use of an autologous bone plug to seal the intramedullary femoral canal has been shown to be effective in reducing postoperative bleeding. The authors present a simple technique to create a bone plug from the anterior chamfer femoral cut to pe...

Image matching is an important task. There are many available methods for occluded image matching, e.g. Hausdorff distance, Distance Transformi and wavelet decomposition based methods. We proposed Modified Chamfer Matching Algorithm (MCMA) [16], a new simple distance transform based image matching algorithm. Here we propose few more matching measures and compare them. Basic concepts relating to...

This paper describes a novel image registration method for movement correction of fMR time-series. It is important to align the fMR images in the time-series before time-dependent analyses. This registration method aligns the boundaries of brains extracted from the functional images. It uses a genetic algorithm to minimize the distance function obtained from the chamfer distance transform. The ...

By propagating a vector for each pixel, we show that nearly Euclidean distance maps can be produced quickly by a region growing algorithm using hierarchical queues. Properties of the propagation scheme are used to detect potentially erroneous pixels and correct them by using larger neighbourhoods, without significantly affecting the computation time. Thus, Euclidean distance maps are produced i...

The effects of finishing system on growth performance and carcass composition were determined in an experiment using 40 crossbred, early-weaned lambs (28 kg BW). Finishing systems were 1) grazed alfalfa, 2) 100% concentrate diet fed in drylot, and 3) grazed ryegrass for 42 d followed by a 100% concentrate diet fed in drylot. All lambs were fed to similar final weights (48 kg). Average daily gai...

INTRODUCTION The objectives of this prospective clinical study were to evaluate the quality of treatment outcomes achieved with a complex orthodontic finishing protocol involving serpentine wires and a tooth positioner, and to compare it with the outcomes of a standard finishing protocol involving archwire bends used to detail the occlusion near the end of active treatment. METHODS The comple...

The objective of this investigation was to study the effects of feeding backgrounding and finishing diets on selected acute phase proteins in the plasma of feedlot steers. Two groups of 12 steers each, at the backgrounding and finishing stages, were offered either a backgrounding (45% barley grain-based concentrate and 55% barley silage on a DM basis) or a finishing (91% barley grain-based conc...