This article describes an at-home program to assist children with nocturnal digit-sucking habits. Children with such habits are candidates for this program if they wish to discontinue their habits and have no psychological contraindications for habit cessation. The program involves nightly use of an elastic bandage wrapped across the elbow. Pressure exerted by the bandage removes the digit from...

This paper proposes a middleware for home networks, called Virtual Networked Appliance (VNA) architecture, in which the service description method and the Service to Service (S2S) communication mechanism are separated in an orthogonal way. Through the separation, VNA architecture solved the following two problems of existing middleware technologies: aspect violation and middleware fragmentation...

In this study, we proposed a remote authentication model of information appliances (RAMIA). The RAMIA comprised of two basic components, namely user identity security authentication module (UISAM) and authority management module (AMM). The function of UISAM is to authenticate the user by account and password, this module is constructed by hash function and exclusive or (XOR);AMM includes a user...

Interaction between a user and a product like a home-appliance is sometimes a mutual relationship. A product not only provides service to a user, but also requires maintenance by the user to keep it working smoothly. If the user stops paying attention to maintenance, the product will no longer be used. To keep a sustainable relationship between a user and a product, the author proposes making a...

At the heart of a well-disciplined, systematic methodology that explicitly supports the use of COTS components is a clearly defined process for effectively using components that meet the needs of the system under development. In this paper, we present the CARE (COTS-Aware Requirements Engineering) Framework, a process-oriented framework which supports the iterative matching, ranking, and select...

OBJECTIVES The principle of leverage to superpose the convex surfaces of two shells was applied to develop a device for treating limitation of mouth opening and called it the "shell-shaped mouth opener" and analyzed pressure on the teeth with the TheraBite(®) appliance and the shell-shaped mouth opening appliance. MATERIAL AND METHODS To compare the TheraBite(®) appliance and the shell-shaped...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether anterior and inferior displacement of the maxilla seen with rapid palatal expansion when done with a banded rapid palatal expansion appliance is significantly different from an occlusally bonded rapid palatal expansion appliance. It was hypothesized that the bonded appliance would limit unwanted displacement of the maxilla by producing vertical...

IoT has become an integrated part of our lives changing ways in which we operate everyday appliances. In addition to making home appliances smart, it a common trend for companies adopt industry 4.0, uses various sensors monitor the equipment, machinery, and work environment. We often come across multiple brands make smart but each brand comes with its separate mobile application appliance's ope...

the purpose of this study was to identify the effects of green brand image on the green brand equity in the customers of appliance dealer's representation and appliance dealers in the chain department stores of sanandaj. research variables selected from yushan chen (2010) study. a questionnaire was used to measure theses dimensions that have been confirmed by experts and had 24 indices. it...

The large scale IaaS systems could store virtual appliances in several repositories. The deployment time could heavily vary depending on the connection properties of the repository storing the appliance. A virtual appliance is a virtual machine image designed to run on a virtualization platform i.e. Virtual Box, Xen, VMware Workstation. Virtual appliance delivery requires the modification of th...