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Palatal defects are rehabilitated by fabricating maxillofacial prostheses called obturators. The treatment incorporates taking deviously unpredictable impressions to facsimile the palatal defects into plaster casts for obturator fabrication in the dental laboratory. The casts are then digitally stored using expensive hardware to prevent physical damage or data loss and, when required, future obturators are digitally designed, and 3D printed. Our objective was to construct and validate an economic in-house smartphone-integrated stereophotogrammetry (SPINS) 3D scanner and to evaluate its accuracy in designing prosthetics using open source/free (OS/F) digital pipeline. Palatal defect models were scanned using SPINS and its accuracy was compared against the standard laser scanner for virtual area and volumetric parameters. SPINS derived 3D models were then used to design obturators by using (OS/F) software. The resultant obturators were virtually compared against standard medical software designs. There were no significant differences in any of the virtual parameters when evaluating the accuracy of both SPINS, as well as OS/F derived obturators. However, limitations in the design process resulted in minimal dissimilarities. With further improvements, SPINS based prosthetic rehabilitation could create a viable, low cost method for rural and developing health services to embrace maxillofacial record keeping and digitised prosthetic rehabilitation.

The main objective of this paper is to reduce the timing of higher officials to sign in large number of same documents. Manual signing of documents adds time shortage in Public Work Department. Moreover, the manual process is time consuming and not suitable for signing a greater number of documents. The proposed model involves the arrangement of documents, positioning of facsimile, stamping the facsimile and take out the printed documents to distribute station. Thus, this model signs a greater number of documents within a short time. Pneumatic power is fruitfully utilized in this paper and the system is controlled by an Arduino controller. Positioning of facsimile is done by the lead screw arrangement with the help of sensors. The finished documents are then sucked by vacuum cup and taken out simultaneously. Our real time implementation helps them in unveiling such condition. The paper consists of two sections namely mechanical section and control section. The control section consists of Arduino controller and Relays. Arduino controller is used to control the DC motor and the relays are used to actuate the mechanical sections. The mechanical section consists of lead screw arrangement, pneumatic piston, suction cup and facsimile.

Context: Encoding of video frames in a traditional video coding architecture involves exhaustive computations due to the motion estimation (ME) task. Hence, it requires a considerable amount of computing aid, battery power, and resource memory. These codecs are not effective and reliable for applications like surveillance systems, wireless sensor networks, wireless camcorders, having scarcity in the availability of resources and computing ability. Therefore, in such scenarios, distributed video coding (DVC) represents a viable solution for power-constrained hand-held devices. DVC empowers the adaptability in distributing the complexity between the encoder and the decoder. Objective: Like any other building block, the decoder driven side information (SI) generation module plays a key role in a DVC codec. The efficacy of a DVC codec firmly relies on the quality of the SI generated at the decoder. SI is considered to be the facsimile of the original Wyner-Ziv (WZ) frame. Hence, the superior the quality of SI, improved is the efficiency of the codec. The primary objective of the present work is to enhance the quality of the SI frame so that the overall performance of the DVC is improved. To achieve this objective, this article deals with a hybrid SI generation scheme utilizing the principles of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and extreme learning machine (ELM) algorithm in a transform domain-based DVC framework. Results: Exhaustive simulations have been carried out for some standard video sequences with the proposed and benchmark schemes. The proposed scheme is evaluated with respect to different performance metrics such as rate-distortion (RD), SI peak-signal-to-noise-ratio (PSNR) vs frame number, number of parity requests per SI frame, and so on. Experimental results and its analyses corroborate that the performance of the proposed technique surpasses as that of the benchmark schemes.

Die Überlieferung des ʻSachsenspiegels’ in über 460 Handschriften ist bisher nur teilweise über Internetressourcen zugänglich. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die online verfügbaren Hilfsmittel und insbesondere über Angebote zu den vier Bilderhandschriften, von denen Digitalisate vorliegen. Auf der Grundlage des Wolfenbütteler Sachsenspiegels (Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 3.1 Aug. 2°) bietet die Internetseite www.sachsenspiegel-online.de eine Kombination von Digitalisat, Transkription, neuhochdeutscher Übersetzung und detaillierter Erläuterung der Bildmotive. The manuscript tradition of the ʻSaxon Mirror’ with more than 460 copies is only partially accessible via internet resources. This contribution aims to give an overview about the tools currently available online, especially concerning the four illuminated manuscripts which have already been digitized. The Wolfenbüttel copy (Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 3.1 Aug. 2°) is accessible via www.sachsenspiegel-online.de with digital facsimile, transcription and translation of the text and detailed commentary on the illustrations.

Die Überlieferung des ʻSachsenspiegels’ in über 460 Handschriften ist bisher nur teilweise über Internetressourcen zugänglich. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die online verfügbaren Hilfsmittel und insbesondere über Angebote zu den vier Bilderhandschriften, von denen Digitalisate vorliegen. Auf der Grundlage des Wolfenbütteler Sachsenspiegels (Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 3.1 Aug. 2°) bietet die Internetseite www.sachsenspiegel-online.de eine Kombination von Digitalisat, Transkription, neuhochdeutscher Übersetzung und detaillierter Erläuterung der Bildmotive. The manuscript tradition of the ʻSaxon Mirror’ with more than 460 copies is only partially accessible via internet resources. This contribution aims to give an overview about the tools currently available online, especially concerning the four illuminated manuscripts which have already been digitized. The Wolfenbüttel copy (Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 3.1 Aug. 2°) is accessible via www.sachsenspiegel-online.de with digital facsimile, transcription and translation of the text and detailed commentary on the illustrations.

This comprehensive textual treatment of the Kaifeng Passover Rite is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion as to the Community's origins in particular and to comparative Jewish liturgy in general.

Instead of relying on a variation of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), an alternative called the multifunctional telecommunication addressing system might be the answer to the numbering dilemma. To totally revamp NANP at this date is both politically inconceivable and technically impractical. Any proposed remedy must adhere to the NANP protocol. Although the multifunctional telecommunication addressing system changes the number of characters required to access various telecom devices, the additional characters are not numerical and therefore do not enter directly into subscribers' primary telephone addresses. The 2 symbols * and # serve as markers or place-setters designating the type of telecom equipment to be accessed. The multifunctional addressing system is invisible after it has been implemented until a subscriber requests a system. With this system, the impact of fax machines and cellular phones on the number of available telephone addresses can be improved significantly.

Skladateljski proces se praviloma ne konča z izdelavo avtografa. Kopije, ki so jih pripravljali profesionalni pisarji, so Beethovnu pogosto služile kot osnova za včasih tudi obsežne revizije; pogosto dokončni avtorjev notni zapis iz avtografa niti še ni razviden. Razveseljivo je, da imamo zdaj na voljo obsežen kopistov prepis neke celotne simfonije, ki ga je Beethoven tudi sam pregledal, in sicer kljub temu da je ohranjen tudi avtograf – tako v tiskani faksimilirani kakor v digitalizirani lahko dostopni spletni obliki – in kljub temu da prepis niti nima veliko Beethovnovih pripisov. Gre za prepis partiture Pastoralne simfonije, ki jo je kopist Joseph Klumpar izdelal kot tretjo kopijo simfonije (pred tem je prepisal že orkestrske glasove in partituro za založnika Breitkopf & Härtel) in je pri prvi javni izvedbi decembra 1808 služila kot izvajalska partitura. Danes jo hrani Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica v Ljubljani.