BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine arch width changes during maxillary first premolars extraction and non-extraction treatment in patients with Class II division 1 malocclusion. MATERIAL AND METHODS Dental casts of 91 Class II division 1 patients (36 males and 55 females) were evaluated. The minimum age of the subjects at the beginning of treatment was above 16 years. 48 patien...

Introduction: Measuring the size of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an investigational technique to show the level of corticospinal excitability however, some of the fundamental methodological aspects of TMS (such as the effects of inter-pulse intervals (IPI) on MEP size) are not fully understood, this issue raises concerns about the re...

This paper proposes new inter{agent negotiation mechanisms for improving the performance of agent based or decentralized manufacturing systems. The focus of this paper is on demonstrating eeciency of diierent negotiation and collaboration schemes between agents of the same class (parts, machines, etc) and inter{class negotiations using currency metrics. The cooperation and negotiation protocols...

Along with the popularity of Internet Things (IoT) techniques several computational paradigms, such as cloud and edge computing, microservice has been viewed a promising architecture in large-scale application design deployment. Due to limited computing ability devices distributed IoT, only small scale data can be used for model training. In addition, most machine-learning-based intrusion detec...

â â â  â â  abstract: â  china and asean have been maintaining a relationship both cooperative and competitive in the textile trade. due to its labor intensive feature and high dependence on foreign trade , the textile trade has received much attention after the 2008 financial crisis. the customs data (classified by the hs code) from year 2006-2009 is employed to research the impact of the cris...

In this study marine sponges of inter tidal zone from Hengam Island Persian Gulf were collected by wading at low tides in Eskeleh station at  locations 55˚ 53ʹ 40ʺ E & 26˚ 40ʹ 53ʺ N.For identifying identification of sponge samples, acid digestion method as a method of early detection and microtome section to identify the skeletal structure were used.All the identified sponges were from class De...

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with only image-level labels aims to reduce annotation costs for the task. Existing approaches generally leverage class activation maps (CAMs) locate object regions pseudo label generation. However, CAMs can discover most discriminative parts of objects, thus leading inferior pixel-level labels. To address this issue, we propose a saliency guided I...