EXPERIMENTAL AND MATHEMATICAL JUSTIFICATION OF THE APPLICATION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR RECORDING THE POSITION OF THE LOWER JAW DURING TOTAL PROSTHETICS USING DENTAL IMPLANTS

Subject. When prosthetics of toothless jaws are performed, the physiological position of the lower jaw must be determined before the final structures are made. In some cases, the use of temporary prostheses for several weeks may be useful to check for a new occlusion in a centric relationship. When the correct ratio is achieved, it is difficult to transfer them from the preliminary prostheses to the final ones. This article presents a case and a technique used to communicate information about the position of the lower jaw using a digital workflow. To determine the optimal position of the lower jaw, a computer tomogram of the temporomandibular joint was used to mathematically measure the correct position of the head of the lower jaw. Purpose. To describe a technique designed to transfer the inter-occlusal relations of the upper and lower jaws, using digital technologies in the prosthetics of full adentia using dental implants. Methodology. On the example of a clinical case of rehabilitation of a patient, total removal of failed teeth was performed, followed by prosthetics of complete adentia with the installation of six implants on the upper and lower jaws. After the completion of the integration period, a cone-beam computed tomography was performed with the capture of the temporomandibular joint, and a scan of plaster models with installed gum shapers was performed. The obtained data were compared in a specialized program for mathematical calculation of the optimal position of the lower jaw. This information was used to produce registration templates for the manufacture of fixed structures supported by implants in the resulting central jaw ratio. Results. A digital protocol for determining the central ratio of the jaws allowed us to transfer the information obtained in a virtual model of the temporomandibular joint to a permanent restoration based on implants. Conclusion. The approach described in this article predictably conveys information about the optimal position of the lower jaw during prosthetics and allows you to perform the final restoration on implants with optimal occlusal ratios, based on a mathematical calculation performed in specialized programs.

Determining the Print Quality Due to Deformation of the Halftone Dots in Flexography

This paper researches the issues related to the print quality in flexography, especially the influence of the print run and inadequate printing settings on dot deformation. Dot deformation can lead to inconsistencies in print quality, such as a loss of highlight tones or an unpredictable increase in tonal value. This research was conducted on two concrete examples of flexible packaging printed on transparent films. All significant parameters of dot deformation were evaluated, including dot coverage, dot sharpness and the uniformity of the ink density. The increase in the coverage values in the midtones was linear throughout the entire print run, while in the light tones, it was more logarithmic. The overall percentage deviations from the reference value were 6.3% in the midtones and 52.6% in the light area. The increase in dot coverage was due to the wear of the polymer plate, which caused the side shoulders of the dot to become a part of the printing surface. An analysis of the ink density showed a much more homogeneous shape of the dot at the beginning of the print run. The correct ratio of the anilox roller line screen to the line ruling of the printing plate is important in order to ensure a minimum dot size in print.

A Digital Displacement Hydrostatic Wind-turbine Transmission

In 1984 a hydrostatic wind-turbine transmission with ‘secondary control’ was proposed by Stephen Salter using the, then only conceptual, Digital Displacement® (DD) principle for controlling the flow of the primary, rotor-driven, ring-cam pump. This transmission ‘could achieve the correct ratio of tip-speed to wind-speed in conjunction with true synchronous generation’. In the following years DD machines were progressively developed. To start with they were relatively small in capacity but the power ratings were systematically increased, until it seemed that a high-power hydrostatic wind-turbine transmission might indeed be feasible. In 2006, Artemis Intelligent Power (Artemis), a company that had been formed from Salter's original university team, began working on a megawatt-scale, hydrostatic, wind-turbine transmission based on new pump and motor designs. In 2011 Artemis completed a 1.5 MW transmission and dynamometer test-rig. This was one of the largest hydraulic transmissions ever made and, with a shaft-to-shaft efficiency of 93%, one of the most efficient. Using secondary control to respond rapidly to gusting wind and to instantaneous grid faults, it was also the most controllable. This paper discusses the design of the transmission and test-rig and presents the results of steady-state efficiency tests. Subsequent papers will describe systematic experimental work to account for the various energy losses and to develop a comprehensive simulation model of the DD wind-transmission.

Multiple Visual Feature Integration Based Automatic Aesthetics Evaluation of Robotic Dance Motions

Imitation of human behaviors is one of the effective ways to develop artificial intelligence. Human dancers, standing in front of a mirror, always achieve autonomous aesthetics evaluation on their own dance motions, which are observed from the mirror. Meanwhile, in the visual aesthetics cognition of human brains, space and shape are two important visual elements perceived from motions. Inspired by the above facts, this paper proposes a novel mechanism of automatic aesthetics evaluation of robotic dance motions based on multiple visual feature integration. In the mechanism, a video of robotic dance motion is firstly converted into several kinds of motion history images, and then a spatial feature (ripple space coding) and shape features (Zernike moment and curvature-based Fourier descriptors) are extracted from the optimized motion history images. Based on feature integration, a homogeneous ensemble classifier, which uses three different random forests, is deployed to build a machine aesthetics model, aiming to make the machine possess human aesthetic ability. The feasibility of the proposed mechanism has been verified by simulation experiments, and the experimental results show that our ensemble classifier can achieve a high correct ratio of aesthetics evaluation of 75%. The performance of our mechanism is superior to those of the existing approaches.

Landslide Susceptibility Based on Extreme Rainfall-Induced Landslide Inventories and the Following Landslide Evolution

Landslide susceptibility assessment is crucial for mitigating and preventing landslide disasters. Most landslide susceptibility studies have focused on creating landslide susceptibility models for specific rainfall or earthquake events, but landslide susceptibility in the years after specific events are also valuable for further discussion, especially after extreme rainfall events. This research provides a new method to draw an annual landslide susceptibility map in the 5 years after Typhoon Morakot (2009) in the Chishan River watershed in Taiwan. This research establishes four landslide susceptibility models by using four methods and 12 landslide-related factors and selects the model with the optimum performance. This research analyzes landslide evolution in the 5 years after Typhoon Morakot and estimates the average landslide area different ratio (LAD) in upstream, midstream, and downstream of the Chishan River watershed. We combine landslide susceptibility with the model with the highest performance and average annual LAD to draw an annual landslide susceptibility map, and its mean correct ratio ranges from 62.5% to 73.8%.

Real-Time Efficient Relocation Algorithm Based on Depth Map for Small-Range Textureless 3D Scanning

As an important part of industrial 3D scanning, a relocation algorithm is used to restore the position and the pose of a 3D scanner or to perform closed-loop detection. The real time and the relocation correct ratio are prominent and difficult points in 3D scanning relocation research. By utilizing the depth map information captured by a binocular vision 3D scanner, we developed an efficient and real-time relocation algorithm to estimate the current position and pose of the sensor real-time and high-correct-rate relocation algorithm for small-range 3D texture less scanning. This algorithm mainly involves feature calculation, feature database construction and query, feature matching verification, and rigid transformation calculation; through the four parts, the initial position and pose of the sensors in the global coordinate system is obtained. In the experiments, the efficiency and the correct-rate of the proposed relocation algorithm were elaborately verified by offline and online experiments on four objects of different sizes, and a smooth and a rough surface. With more data frames and feature points, the relocation could be maintained real time within 200 ms, and a high correct rate of more than 90% could be realized. The experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm could achieve a real-time and high-correct-ratio relocation.

FRAME SELECTIVE AND DYNAMIC PATTERN BASED MODEL FOR EFFECTIVE AND SECURE VIDEO WATERMARKING

Video watermarking enables the users to share the digital contents in public domain without any issue. However, video watermarking is also infected by various attacks that can even destroy the hidden watermark. The security, robustness and reliability are the key challenges of any Video watermarking technique. In this paper, such a robust and dynamic video watermarking framework is presented that can handle most of the existing issues. In this framework, the video is hiding on the selective frames and the preference of frames is done based on structural feature evaluation. After performing the frame selection, the featured analysis is accomplished on each frame to identify the effective cover blocks. The structure feature analysis based rules are applied to identify the most secure region over the frame. In the final stage, the histogram shift method is applied to perform data hiding. To improve the security, instead of hiding the complete image, the ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) encrypted image is watermarked within the video frames. The analysis is performed on real time videos. The analysis results are generated in terms of MSE (Mean Square Error), PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio), SSIM (Structural Similarity Measure) and BCR (Bit Correct Ratio) parameters. The results identified that the proposed model has improved the effectiveness, robustness and security against various attacks. The comparative results are also validated against the DCT and DCT-SVD based video watermarking methods.

FEATURES OF PLACEMENT OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS IN THE STRUCTURE OF CITIES

The article is devoted to the search for modern approaches in creating high density buildings due to the inclusion of high-rise buildings in the structure of large cities. The way from the beginning of the construction of the first high-rises in the cities of Europe and up to the present period is analyzed. The study revealed the main errors that were made when placing skyscrapers in European cities, their subsequent negative impact on the att itude to these types of buildings. In addition, the authors propose when locating high-rise buildings, determine their typological and functional structure, the correct ratio and richness of various functional serving elements, the number and density of high-rise buildings in the territory allocated for their construction. It is concluded that only with the observance of these basic principles can a convenient, comfortable, affordable, modern, constantly updated urban environment be created.

The ratio between centromeric proteins CENP-A and CENP-C maintains homeostasis of human centromeres

The centromere is the chromosomal locus that seeds the kinetochore, allowing for a physical connection between the chromosome and the mitotic spindle. At the heart of the centromere is the centromere-specific histone H3 variant CENP-A/CENH3. Throughout the cell cycle the constitutive centromere associated network is bound to CENP-A chromatin, but how this protein network modifies CENP-A nucleosome dynamics in vivo is unknown. Here, we purify kinetochore associated native centromeric chromatin and analyze its biochemical features using a combinatorial approach. We report that kinetochore bound chromatin has strongly reduced DNA accessibility and a distinct stabilized nucleosomal configuration. Disrupting the balance between CENP-A and CENP-C result in reduced centromeric occupancy of RNA polymerase 2 and impaired de novo CENP-A loading on the centromeric chromatin fiber, correlating with significant mitotic defects. CENP-A mutants that restore the ratio rescue the mitotic defects. These data support a model in which CENP-C bound centromeric nucleosomes behave as a barrier to the transcriptional machinery and suggest that maintaining the correct ratio between CENP-A and CENP-C levels is critical for centromere homeostasis.

Studies on Technological Features of Obtaining Thin Bimetallic Brass-Aluminum-Brass Strips

Manufacturing of bimetallic brass-aluminum-brass strips is connected with a number of technological features. The features under consideration are cladding (welding) of the primary components, annealing of metal compositions and strain modes assignment. The purpose of the studies upon the development of bimetallic brass-aluminum-brass strips production technologies in SUSU is to analyze the modes, as well as to elaborate recommendations for the primary components thickness selection, strain modes assignment and annealing using bell-type furnace and strand-type furnace. The performed studies resulted in recommendations dealing with annealing cycles. The studies have also delivered the regression ratio between the thickness selection of primary components during the cladding operation, and the supreme total strain. A correct ratio prevents from the surface ruptures on the bimetallic brass-aluminum-brass strips surface while rolling.