Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is widely used by patients worldwide. Financial factors may influence the decision to use CAM. National Health Systems are requested to consider CAM in their health plans.

Modeling of products (objects) form a critical task in design and manufacturing. CAD–CAM techniques based on solid/geometric modeling have been developed for this purpose. Primarily, these methods capture the shape of the object. However, recent developments in diverse fields demand modeling schemes, which extend beyond the shape to include other relevant attributes of the object. In this paper...

Since the early 1980s, CAPP has been expected to bridge the gap between CAD and CAM. Though numerous research works on CAPP have been reported, it is not easy to ®nd a commercial CAPP system applicable to complicated objects with freeform shapes such as mold and die. The dependency on CAM system is holding one leg of CAPP, while the complexity of the solution space in freeform shape machining h...

The manual processing of food products has become a substantial part of the daily routine of a typical household in the developing world. Consumption of oil is an essential part of an individual's diet and thus, the production of oil is an essential activity. In many communities, this oil is obtained by manually pressing it from peanuts. In order to more efficiently and easily express oil from ...

Mechanical stress in coronary arteries has been postulated to cause endothelial injury and atherosclerotic lesions, but the relationship between the pattern of coronary artery movement (CAM) and lesion severity is not known. In the present study CAM was classified into 10 patterns, which were grouped into 3 classes: (1) bend type = coronary artery flexes into a curve; (2) compression type = seg...

kir/Gem, Rad, Rem and Rem2 comprise the RGK (Rad/Gem/kir) family of Ras-related small G-proteins. Two important functions of RGK proteins are the regulation of the VDCC (voltage-dependent Ca2+ channel) activity and cell-shape remodelling. RGK proteins interact with 14-3-3 and CaM (calmodulin), but their role on RGK protein function is poorly understood. In contrast with the other RGK family mem...

Besides traditional applications e g CAD CAM and Trademark registry new multimedia applications such as structured video animation and MPEG standard require the storage and management of well de ned objects This study compared four shape based object retrieval techniques FD GB DT and TPV AS The simi larity retrieval accuracy of our method TV PAS was comparable to the other methods while it had ...