BACKGROUND Initial stability of the implant is, in effect, one of the fundamental criteria for obtaining long-term osseointegration. Achieving implant stability depends on the implant-bone relation, the surgical technique and on the microscopic and macroscopic morphology of the implant used. A newly designed parabolic screw-type dental implant system was tested in vivo for early stages of inter...

BACKGROUND The development of evidence-based guidelines is a key step in ensuring that maternity care is of a universally high standard. To influence patient care national and international guidelines need to be interpreted and implemented locally. In 2011, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists published guidelines for the management of reduced fetal movements (RFM), which can b...

Human listeners are able to concentrate on listening to one voice amidst other conversations and background noise, but not all of the neural mechanisms for this process are understood. There is growing evidence in normal-hearing subjects that the medial olivocochlear (MOC) auditory efferent system is involved in the detection of signals in noise, such as speech sounds, by modulation of cochlear...

The Gaofen-1 (GF-1) and Gaofen-6 (GF-6) satellites have acquired many GF-1 GF-6 wide-field-view (WFV) images. These images been made available for free use globally. WFV rational polynomial coefficients (RPCs). In practical applications, RPC corrections of need to be completed using the function model (RFM). However, can accuracy satisfy application requirements? To address this issue, a geomet...

Association rules have been developed for years and applied successfully for market basket analysis and cross selling among other business applications. One of the most used approaches in association rules is the Apriori algorithm. However the Apriori algorithm, has long known for its weaknesses that generate enormous amount of rules and alreadyknown facts. In this study, we integrate the RFM a...

The Rational Function Model (RFM) has been widely used as an alternative to rigorous sensor models of high-resolution optical imagery in photogrammetry and remote sensing geometric processing. However, not much work has been done to evaluate the applicability of the RF model for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image processing. This paper investigates how to generate a Rational Polynomial Coeffi...

In this paper, we try to validate existing theory on and develop additional insight into repeat-purchase behavior in a direct marketing setting by means of an illuminating case study. The case involves the detection and qualification of the most relevant RFM (Recency, Frequency and Monetary) variables, using a neural network wrapper as our input pruning method. Results indicate that elimination...

We describe the first large scale analysis of gene translation that is based on a model that takes into account the physical and dynamical nature of this process. The Ribosomal Flow Model (RFM) predicts fundamental features of the translation process, including translation rates, protein abundance levels, ribosomal densities and the relation between all these variables, better than alternative ...