This article describes one variation in Herbst appliance design--the acrylic splint Herbst. Topics discussed include early fixed appliance treatment before Herbst therapy, impression taking, bite registration, and evaluation of appliance fabrication. The specifics of appliance delivery, including bonding of the maxillary appliance when indicated, are also discussed as are the techniques of appl...

BACKGROUND Custom oral appliances that adjustably advance the mandible provide superior outcomes when treating patients with moderate or severe sleep apnea. Custom appliances, however, are expensive, must be fitted by a dentist, and the likelihood of successful outcomes are difficult to predict. An inexpensive trial appliance, if proven efficacious, might be used to predict custom appliance out...

• Investigates how the choice of information visualization influences people in making sense data for domestic electricity consumption. Results experiment suggest that by using an area-based visualization, can gain a more accurate understanding much different appliances use. These results are important because display current smart meters tend to use time-series which we show be less effective ...

The pattern of electricity use in an individual domestic dwelling is highly dependent upon the activities of the occupants and their associated use of electrical appliances. This paper presents a high-resolution model of domestic electricity use, that is based upon a combination of patterns of active occupancy (i.e. when people are at home and awake), and daily activity profiles that characteri...

The pattern of electricity use in an individual domestic dwelling is highly dependent upon the activities of the occupants and their associated use of electrical appliances. This paper presents a high-resolution model of domestic electricity use, that is based upon a combination of patterns of active occupancy (i.e. when people are at home and awake), and daily activity profiles that characteri...

The pattern of electricity use in an individual domestic dwelling is highly dependent upon the activities of the occupants and their associated use of electrical appliances. This paper presents a high-resolution model of domestic electricity use, that is based upon a combination of patterns of active occupancy (i.e. when people are at home and awake), and daily activity profiles that characteri...

abstract background and aim: the aim of the present study was to evaluate the cephalometric changes in class ii division 1 mandibular deficient patients treated with farmand functional appliance.  methods and materials: twenty-seven subjects (17 girls and 10 boys) with the mean age of 11.1±1.4 years were involved in the present study. all the subjects were treated with farmand functional applia...

Many countries are rolling out smart electricity meters. These measure a home’s total power demand. However, research into consumer behaviour suggests that consumers are best able to improve their energy efficiency when provided with itemised, appliance-by-appliance consumption information. Energy disaggregation is a computational technique for estimating appliance-by-appliance energy consumpti...

A tangible programming interface called ``Push-pin'' is proposed, which involves end-users in designing smart home programs for home appliance automation. Programming on the Push-pin system is based on a stimulus-response model in which an appliance connected to another appliance via a network gets activated when the other appliance is activated. To interconnect two appliances, the user puts a ...

This paper explores the feasibility of applying newly emerging low-cost embedded-Internet devices in support of pervasive computing; a new vision whereby domestic appliances are provided with Internet connections enabling them to be accessed and controlled from anywhere, anytime, via any web based interface. The principal challenges addressed by this work were how to design an embedded-Internet...