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Open AccessUrban Life Affects Differentiation and Phenotypic Variation but not Asymmetry in a Fully Terrestrial Salamander
The environmental transformations associated with cities are expected to affect organisms at the demographic, phenotypic, and evolutionary level, often negatively. The prompt detection of stressed populations ...
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Introduction to Computed Tomography: Application to the Inspection of Material Extruded Tensile Testing Specimens
in the industry must overcome several issues regarding the quality inherent in the printing process. The increasing use has contributed to the development of new materials and market growth. Fortunately, ...
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ALPI: Enhancing Portability and Interoperability of Task-Aware Libraries
Task-based programming models are a promising approach to exploiting complex distributed and heterogeneous systems. However, integrating different communication, offloading, and storage APIs within tasks poses...
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Polymers Injection Molding, Process & Defects
presents a theoretical background of that will be provided to the students and clinch with practical activities. Mainly theoretical points to be discussed will be the origin and importance of this process...
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Enhancing Materials and Manufacturing Education with Materials Databases: A Case Study in Aerospace Engineering
This chapter presents a case study on the implementation of CES EduPack, a powerful materials selection and education software, in an engineering classroom setting. Focusing on the field engineering, the stu...
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Ventrally Based Tongue Flap for Palatal Fistula
The palate fistula, which appears after an attempted closure of palate, usually becomes a headache for the surgeon. A large fistula of the palate may have very little tissue suitable for good closure, due to f...
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The Speech Score: A New Concept for Evaluation of Functional Result After Cleft Patient
The Alvarez Speech Score is presented as a measurement tool to evaluate the quality of speech in patients of cleft lip and palate, before and after surgical treatments and speech and language therapy.
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Ventrally based tongue flap for Palatal Fistula
The palate fistula, which appears after an attempted closure of palate, usually becomes a headache for the surgeon. A large fistula of the palate may have very little tissue suitable for good closure, due to f...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
The Speech Score: A New Concept for Evaluation of Functional Result after Cleft Patient
The Alvarez Speech Score is presented as a measurement tool to evaluate the quality of speech in patients of cleft lip and palate, before and after surgical treatments and speech and language therapy.
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Reference Work Entry In depth
The Red Code: Management of Bleeding During or After Cleft Palate Surgery
Introduction: Bleeding, during perioperative and postoperative period is not only frustrating for the surgeon but may also lead to life-threatening condition for the patient, if the bleeding is not stopped in tim...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
The Red Code: Management of Bleeding During or After Cleft Palate Surgery
Introduction: Bleeding, during perioperative and postoperative period is not only frustrating for the surgeon but may also lead to life-threatening condition for the patient, if the bleeding is not stopped in ti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mobile Architecture for Forest Fire Simulation Using PhyFire-HDWind Model
This article presents the design and implementation of a new visualization system for mobile platforms for the PhyFire-HDWind fire simulation model, called AppPhyFire. It proposes a mobile computing infrastruc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visual and Tactile Fusion for Estimating the Pose of a Grasped Object
This paper considers the problem of fusing vision and touch senses together to estimate the 6D pose of an object while it is grasped. Assuming that a textured 3D model of the object is available, first, Scale-...
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Global Residents in Urban Networks: The Right to Asylum in European Cosmopoleis
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the limitations of our current political structures in incorporating the cosmopolitan principles that may be emerging in the normative developments of our global order...
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Quality Study of Robot Trajectories Based on the Anisotropic Fast Marching Method
Fast Marching Method has been applied to many fields such as image processing or path planning. For path planning, the Anisotropic Fast Marching Method can be used, which allows computing paths with small grad...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tactile-Based In-Hand Object Pose Estimation
This paper presents a method to estimate the pose of an object inside a robotic hand by exploiting contact and joint position information. Once an initial visual estimation is provided, a Bootstrap Particle Fi...
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Illuminating vital surface molecules of symbionts in health and disease
The immunomodulatory surface molecules of commensal and pathogenic bacteria are critical to microorganisms' survival and the host's response1,2. Recent studies have highlighted the unique and important responses ...
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Fast Marching-based globally stable motion learning
In this paper, a novel motion learning method is introduced: Fast Marching Learning (FML). While other learning methods are focused on optimising probabilistic functions or fitting dynamical systems, the propo...
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Path Planning for Mars Rovers Using the Fast Marching Method
This paper presents the application of the Fast Marching Method, with or without an external vectorial field, to the path planning problem of robots in difficult outdoors environments. The resulting trajectory...
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3D Robot Formations Path Planning with Fast Marching Square
This work presents a path planning algorithm for 3D robot formations based on the standard Fast Marching Square (FM2) path planning method. This method is enlarged in order to apply it to robot formations motion ...
