scholarly journals Comparative study of the usability of two software programs for visualization and analysis of digital orthodontic models

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-220
Author(s):  
Matheus Felter ◽  
Milena Moraes de Oliveira Lenza ◽  
Maurício Guilherme Lenza ◽  
Wendel Minoro Muniz Shibazaki ◽  
Rhonan Ferreira Silva
Keyword(s):  
Model Analysis ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Tooth Size ◽  
File Format ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Software Usability ◽  
Software Programs ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Orthodontic Models

Background. Software programs for visualization and analysis of digital orthodontic models, apart from presenting the necessary features for diagnosis and treatment planning, also need to be user-friendly. This characteristic refers to software’ usability, a measure that evaluates how easy it is to use it is by a specific group of professionals. The aim of this study was to compare the usability of free available versions of two software programs for visualization and analysis of digital orthodontic models. Methods. Digimodel® and OrthoCAD® usability were evaluated through their interface analysis and executing the following procedures: malocclusion classification and models analysis (arch-length and tooth-size discrepancies). Results. Digimodel® and OrthoCAD® software programs had an installer only for Windows platform, occupied less than 110 megabytes of virtual space and only read files from their respective manufacturers. None possessed Portuguese as a language option. Both allowed visualization of the models in different axes through options present in initial screen, at a click. For model analysis, both software programs required to measure tooth to tooth and performed necessary calculations automatically. However, OrthoCAD® software program was less intuitive because the option for these actions was among several others, within menus, which could cause confusion during navigation. In addition, the marking of points did not always obey the clicked site. Conclusion. The free access version of the evaluated software programs exhibited usability limitations related to language, supported file format and even the model analysis execution for orthodontic diagnosis. Although OrthoCAD® was inferior, both did not meet orthodontists’ clinical demand against these factors in the evaluated versions.

Sri Lankan Cleft Lip and Palate Study Model Analysis: Clefts of the Secondary Palate

1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Mccance ◽  
David Roberts-Harry ◽  
Martyn Sherriff ◽  
Michael Mars ◽  
William J.B. Houston
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Model Analysis ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Tooth Size ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Secondary Palate ◽  
Comparable Control ◽  
And Control

The study models of a group of adult Sri Lankan patients with clefts of the secondary palate were investigated. Tooth-size and arch-dimension comparisons were made with a comparable control group. Significant differences were found between the cleft and control groups in tooth sizes, chord lengths, and arch widths. The cleft group dimensions were generally smaller than those of the control group. Overjets were larger in the cleft group.

Pedigree and Pedigree Import Wizard

HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 552g-553
Author(s):  
Shahrokh Khandizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Additional Data ◽  
File Format ◽  
Fruit Crops ◽  
Operating Environment ◽  
Agronomic Characteristics ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Plant Characteristics ◽  
User Friendly

Pedigree for Windows is a user-friendly program that allows the user to trace agronomic characteristics, draw pedigrees, and view images of several fruit crops, including more than 1400 apple, 800 strawberry, 800 almond, 100 blackberry, 80 blueberry, 790 pear, 200 raspberry examples. Pedigree Import Wizard®© for Windows is an add-on software for users who are interested in importing their research or breeding data records of fruit, flower, and plant characteristics and any related images into Pedigree for Windows. Pedigree for Windows and Pedigree Import Wizard have been designed so that a user familiar with the Windows operating environment should have little need to refer to the documentation provided with the program. Pedigree Import Wizard uses a comma-separated value (csv) file format under the MS Excel environment. This option allows the user to add or import additional data to the existing database that are already stored in other software such as Lotus, Excel, Access, QuattroPro, WordPerfect, and MS Word tables, etc., as long as they work under the Windows environment. A free demo version of Pedigree and Pedigree Import Wizard for Windows is available from http://www.pgris.com.

scholarly journals DWD Geoportal – Converging open data, metadata and documentation in a user-friendly way

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn Reetz ◽  
Hella Riede ◽  
Dirk Fuchs ◽  
Renate Hagedorn
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Free Text Search ◽  
Easy Integration ◽  
Access To Data ◽  
User Friendly

<p>Since 2017, Open Data has been a part of the DWD data distribution strategy. Starting with a small selection of meteorological products, the number of available datasets has grown continuously over the last years. Since the start, users can access datasets anonymously via the website https://opendata.dwd.de to download file-based meteorological products. Free access and the variety of products has been welcomed by the general public as well as private met service providers. The more datasets are provided in a directory structure, however, the more tedious it is to find and select among all available data. Also, metadata and documentation were available, but on separate public websites. This turned out to be an issue, especially for new users of DWD's open data.</p><p>To help users explore the available datasets as well as to quickly decide on their suitability for a certain use case, the Open Data team at DWD is developing a geoportal. It enables free-text search along with combined access to data, metadata, and description along with interactive previews via OGC WMS.</p><p>Cloud technology is a suitable way forward for hosting the geoportal along with the data in its operational state. Benefits are expected for the easy integration of rich APIs with the geoportal, and the flexible and fast deployment and scaling of optional or prototypical services such as WMS-based previews. Flexibility is also mandatory to respond to fluctuating user demands, depending on time of day and critical weather situations, which is supported by containerization. The growing overall volume of meteorological data at DWD may mandate to allow customers to bring their code to the data – for on-demand processing including slicing and interpolation –  instead of transferring files to every customer. Shared cloud instances are the ideal interface for this purpose.</p><p>The contribution will outline a protoype version of the new geoportal and discuss further steps for launching it to the public.</p>

scholarly journals ЕЛЕМЕНТИ ІНТЕРФЕЙСУ НАУКОВО-ДОСЛІДНОГО WEB-РЕСУРСУ PHYSIONET ТА ІМПОРТ ДАНИХ У СИСТЕМУ КОМП'ЮТЕРНОЇ МАТЕМАТИКИ MAPLE 17

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Chuiko ◽  
I. O. Shyian ◽  
D. A. Galyak
Keyword(s):  
Free Access ◽  
Digital Signals ◽  
Interface Elements ◽  
Medical Databases ◽  
Physiological Signal ◽  
Web Resource ◽  
Interactive Display ◽  
Physiological Signal Processing ◽  
Data Files ◽  
User Friendly

Since 1999, PhysioNet (http://physionet.org/) has offered free access via the web to large collections of recorded physiologic signals and medical databases as well as associated open-source software. The intention of this scientific resource is to stimulate current research and new investigations in the study of cardiovascular and other complex biomedical signals. PhysioBank archives include today the records obtained from healthy individuals and from patients with different diagnoses obtained under various conditions. It includes sudden cardiac death, congestive heart failure, neurological disorders, epilepsy and many others. Software packages PhysioToolkit is valuable for physiological signal processing and analysis, for creation of new databases, the interactive display and characterization of signals, the simulation of physiological and other signals. Nonetheless, a researcher should have skills to work with the operating system Unix and be knowledgeable in special commands to successful use software PhysioToolkit. Therefore, it makes sense to convert the necessary signals to a user-friendly computer algebra system. This paper describes interface elements of scientific web-resource PhysioNet, the simple methods of converting from binary medical data files to the text format and import of received digital signals into computer mathematics system Maple 17.

EUHFORIA in the ESA Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefaan Poedts
Keyword(s):  
Space Weather ◽  
Radiation Belt ◽  
Flux Rope ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
System A ◽  
First Results ◽  
Efficient Integration ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Further Development

<p>The goal of the ESA project "Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre - Part 3" (2019-2021) is to further develop the Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre (VSWMC), building on the Part 2 prototype system and focusing on the interaction with the ESA SSA SWE system. A first, limited version went operational in May 2019 under the H-ESC umbrella on the ESA SSA SWE Portal. The objective and scopes of this new project include: the efficient integration of <strong>new models</strong> and <strong>new model couplings</strong>, including daily automated<strong> end-to-end (Sun to Earth) simulations, </strong>the further development and wider use of the <strong>coupling toolkit</strong>  and <strong>front-end GUI, </strong>making the <strong>operational system more robust and user-friendly.</strong> The VSWMC-Part 3 project started on 1 October 2019.</p><p>EUHFORIA (‘European heliospheric forecasting information asset’) is integrated in the VSWMC and will be upgraded with alternative coronal models (Multi-VP and Wind-Predict) and flux-rope CME models, and new couplings will be made available, e.g. to more advanced magnetospheric models and radiation belt models, geo-effects models, and even SEP models. The first results will be discussed and put into perspective.</p>

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS TO THE FINANCIAL AUDITS OF THE ACCOUNTING CHAMBER OF UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
V. Nevidomyi ◽  
Yu. Myronenko ◽  
K. Kanonishena-Kovalenko ◽  
Ya. Horobchuk
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Financial Audit ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
User Friendly

The peculiarities of financial audits conducted by the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine according to a methodology that meets the requirements of ISSAI are explored. The Financial Audit Manual with detailed instructions, audit procedures, and templates of audit documentation, elaborated by the Accounting Chamber and international partners in 2019, is considered. The analysis of the experience of 31 European SAIs showed that most of SAIs do not publish audit manuals, in particular, only SAI of Albania, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, and Romania provided free access to financial audit manuals. The methodological recommendations for conducting the financial audit by the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine, adopted and published in 2015, cover all the issues that are outlined in such manuals of SAIs from those countries..Besides, the risks of providing open access to the Financial Audit Manual, elaborated by the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine were detected. They are the risks of fraud by officials of audited entities, not detecting a material risks by auditors, the use of intellectual property of the Accounting Chamber for commercial purposes by other entities and reputational risks due to breach of agreements with international partners involved in the development of the manual. The Financial Audit Manual was tested on six financial audits conducted by the Accounting Chamber in 2019 and main results are analyzed in the paper. Significant deficiencies of internal control, fraud risks and risks associated with accounting, budgeting and financial reporting software, and the need of improvement in accounting policies, internal control and workflow in all audit entities were identified. Additionally,, the audit results are presented in a user-friendly format tailored to the needs of decision- makers, with an emphasis on issues that require rapid response. Based on the conducted analysis, the conclusions about the low quality of financial and budgetary reporting of public sector entities and the systematic nature of identified problems and risks were made. Thus, the importance of financial audits was emphasized and the proposals for further improvement of this type of audit of the Accounting Chamber were elaborated. In particular, updating of the legislation and internal documents, usage of modern information technologies and software for audits, translation of ISSAI, training for staff, changes in personnel policy, improvement of the quality control system.

scholarly journals Almost as helpful as good theory: some conceptual possibilities for the online classroom

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike David ◽  
Kate Denning
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Delivery Methods ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Actual Space ◽  
Course Delivery Methods ◽  
High Level ◽  
User Friendly

Current interest in the use of Communications and Information Technology (C&IT) in higher education and other settings is at a high level (for example, Framework V: Towards a User-Friendly Information Society; the ESRC Programme PACCIT) and while universities - in response to the Dearing Report - begin to exercise effort in restructuring course delivery methods to take advantage of the technology, there is a danger that the issue of the changes in the social dynamics that are a direct consequence of the transition from actual space to virtual space will be overlooked. Some work has been undertaken in this area (notably Rheingold, 1991; Cook, 1995; McConnell, Hardy and Hodgson, 1996) but there is need for additional research if we are to identify a clearer sense of how effective online learning might manifest itself.DOI:10.1080/0968776010090207 

Scripted Image Enhancement / Analysis Using Adobe® Photoshop® With Ip Tools® Plug-Ins

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1238-1239
Author(s):  
R. Underwood ◽  
L. Muffley ◽  
H. Predd ◽  
M. Piepkorn ◽  
J. Olerud
Keyword(s):  
Image Enhancement ◽  
Imaging System ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Image Capture ◽  
Imaging Center ◽  
Computer Assisted Image ◽  
Software Programs ◽  
User Friendly

The Derm Imaging Center uses various light and electron microscopic techniques to determine meaningful morphologic differences in skin samples received from multiple investigators. Qualitative comparisons required laborious hand measurements, which, in time gave way to computer assisted image capture, enhancement and analysis. The ability to attach a numerical value to a morphologic observation has made quantification an expected component of the experimental results. Laboratory personnel are now spending more time in front of computers than microscopes. This fact prompted a reevaluation of our current methods resulting in a faster, user-friendly computer assisted imaging system.One software program that has become ubiquitous within the field of scientific imaging is Adobe® Photoshop®. Although a multitude of different image capture and analysis software programs are in use, a version of Photoshop® can invariably be found residing in most laboratories involved in imaging. A disadvantage of many image analysis software programs is the lack of image enhancement capability that we have grown to know and love within the Photoshop® environment.

scholarly journals The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (W1) ◽  
pp. W636-W641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fábio Madeira ◽  
Young mi Park ◽  
Joon Lee ◽  
Nicola Buso ◽  
Tamer Gur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Analysis ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Text Search ◽  
Web Interfaces ◽  
Analysis Tools ◽  
User Friendly

Abstract The EMBL-EBI provides free access to popular bioinformatics sequence analysis applications as well as to a full-featured text search engine with powerful cross-referencing and data retrieval capabilities. Access to these services is provided via user-friendly web interfaces and via established RESTful and SOAP Web Services APIs (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/seqdb/confluence/display/JDSAT/EMBL-EBI+Web+Services+APIs+-+Data+Retrieval). Both systems have been developed with the same core principles that allow them to integrate an ever-increasing volume of biological data, making them an integral part of many popular data resources provided at the EMBL-EBI. Here, we describe the latest improvements made to the frameworks which enhance the interconnectivity between public EMBL-EBI resources and ultimately enhance biological data discoverability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability.

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