PURPOSE To report the application of an electrical mallet (magnetic mallet) in osteotome-assisted surgery for sinus floor elevation with implants placed in fresh sockets and 2-year follow-up. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 32 patients (70 implants, 36 in the molar and 34 in the premolar regions) requiring extractions of maxillary premolars and molars were included in this prospective study....

This paper presents a personalized event scheduling recommender system, PRESS, for a large conference setting with multiple parallel tracks. PRESS is a mobile application that gathers personalized information from a user and recommends talks/demos to be attend. The input from a user include a list of keyword preferences and (optionally) preferred talks. We use the MALLET topic model package to ...

The immediate goal of this study was to develop and validate a noninvasive, computational surface mapping approach for measuring scapular kinematics by using available motion capture technology in an innovative manner. The long-term goal is to facilitate clinical determination of the role of the scapula in children with brachial plexus birth palsy (BPBP). The population for this study consisted...

Abstract The present study proposes an advanced force display control system for a surgical training simulator with virtual reality. In oral and orthopedic surgeries, surgeon uses chisel mallet chiseling cutting hard tissue. To enable the representation of sensation operation in simulator, device has been constructed ball-screw mechanism to obtain high stiffness. addition, two-degrees-of-freedo...

Methyl eugenol (ME) and cue-lure (C-L) traps with solid lure dispensers were deployed in areaswith low and high populations of oriental fruit ßy,Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), and melonßy,Bactrocera cucurbitae(Coquillett), respectively. In low-density areas, standard Jackson traps or Hawaii Fruit Fly Areawide Pest Management (AWPM) traps with FT Mallet ME wafers impregnated with dimethyl dichlor...

BACKGROUND Mallet finger injuries are usually successfully treated non-operatively with a splint. Most patients are reviewed at least twice in a clinic after the initial presentation in A&E. A new protocol promoting "self-care" was introduced at our institution. Patients were provided with structured verbal and written information, and given access to a telephone helpline. METHODS A prospecti...

Dorsal interosseus muscles . . . . . . . . . . . . . e114 Pain e114 Weakness e115 Thenar muscles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e115 Flexor tendons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e115 Trigger finger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e115 Tendon rupture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e116 Mallet finger e116 Ruptured flexor tendon e117 Dupuytren’s contracture . . . . ...

This paper presents an approach to human-agent mixed teams for distributed team training, demonstrated through the integration of the domain independent multiagent architecture CAST with the military command-andcontrol simulation software DDD (Distributed Dynamic Decision-making). We extend the CAST architecture in a way such that agents can replace any number of teammates on a DDD team. To cap...