Clinical studies have revealed that the main objective of implants in the edentulous jaw is to provide support for fixed prostheses or to stabilize complete dentures. Various attachment systems were developed for universal use in partially and completely edentulous patients such as clasps, cone-shape telescope copings, magnets, bar systems, locators. The aim of this case report is to present th...

Geofences are virtual boundaries based on geographic coordinates. When combined with global position system (GPS), or more generally global navigation satellite system (GNSS) transmitters, geofences provide a powerful tool for monitoring the location and movements of objects of interest through proximity alarms. However, the accuracy of geofence alarms in GNSS-radio frequency (GNSS-RF) transmit...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to compare the retention characteristics of various overdenture attachment systems commonly used to retain overdentures to dental implants. MATERIALS AND METHODS An edentulous mandibular model was constructed incorporating 2 parallel 4.0 mm x 13 mm Branemark implants placed in the canine regions. Attachments were embedded in a metal-reinforced experimental ov...

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for decoding Reed-Solomon codes with both errors and erasures. The algorithm combines an efficient method for solving the Key Equation and a technique which separates the error locator polynomial from the erasure locator polynomial. The new algorithm is compared to two other efficient Reed-Solomon decoding algorithms and shown to be significantly faster...

Aiming at solving the scalability problem that the current Internet is facing, the separation of the IP namespace into two different namespaces (the Locator and the Identifier namespaces) is one of the most promising paradigms. However, the impact of this new paradigm on the Internet traffic is yet to be assessed. In this extended abstract, we present a preliminary analysis of TCP performance i...

This paper presents a cursive handwritten address recognition system which con sists of four main modules i over segmentor ii dynamic zip locator iii zip can didates generator and iv city state zip veri er The dynamic zip locator and city state zip veri er are based on a exible matcher for matching a sequence of graphemes with a list of generalized strings The dynamic zip locator is able to loc...