AIM To compare the efficacy of manual and oscillating-rotating electric toothbrushes in removing plaque and reducing gingivitis in patients with fixed orthodontic appliances. STUDY DESIGN Randomised clinical trial. MATERIALS AND METHODS 20 subjects aged 10 to 14 years (8 males; 12 females) scheduled for fixed orthodontic treatment were enrolled, randomly divided into two groups, A and B, an...

In this paper, we will discuss the problem how human behavior at home could be detected and how its model could be constructed. Understanding human behavior or action is important to establish a new technology that focuses on individual behaviors. Especially, it is necessary to know human habitual behavior in order to improve life environment. In actual environment, many electric appliances, e....

BACKGROUND Peristomal metastases are rare, but potentially associated with relevant morbidity. Surgical resection, followed by stoma relocation, represent the gold standard in most patients. We describe electrochemotherapy (ECT), a minimally invasive method for locally-enhancing drug delivery by means of electric pulses, as an alternative approach. PATIENT AND METHODS A 49-year-old man with a...

Electric utilities and regulators face difficult challenges evaluating new energy efficiency and smart grid programs prompted, in large part, by recent state and federal mandates and financial incentives. It is increasingly difficult to separate electricity use impacts of individual utility programs from the impacts of increasingly stringent appliance and building efficiency standards, increasi...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Appliance of electric pulses induces red blood cells (RBCs) membrane poration, membrane aminophospholipid perturbation and alteration of the normal flip-flop process, resulting in various shape changes of the RBCs. We studied morphological and water permeability changes of RBCs bombarded with electrons in an alternating current circuit. METHODS We used three venous blood s...

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a process of determining the operating states and energy consumption single electric devices using meter providing aggregate measurements. Due to large spread power electronic-based nonlinear connected network, time signals both voltage current are typically non-sinusoidal. The effectiveness NILM algorithm strongly depends on set discriminative features. ...