Evaluation of Facial Beauty Using Anthropometric Proportions

The improvement of a patient's facial appearance is one of the main goals of contemporary orthodontic treatment. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the difference in facial proportions between attractive and anonymous females in order to establish objective facial features which are widely considered as beautiful. The study included two groups: first group consisted of 83 Caucasian female subjects between 22 and 28 years of age who were selected from the population of students at the University of Belgrade, and the second group included 24 attractive celebrity Caucasian females. The en face facial photographs were taken in natural head position (NHP). Numerous parameters were recorded on these photographs, in order to establish facial symmetry and correlation with the ideal set of proportions. This study showed significant difference between anonymous and attractive females. Attractive females showed smaller face in general and uniformity of the facial thirds and fifths, and most of the facial parameters meet the criteria of the ideal proportions

TEMPUS Project Quality Plan (PQP) - An important management tool of project coordinator

Nowadays project management is becoming increasingly important. Project management is responsible for securing and improving the higher education outcomes defined by an approved TEMPUS project proposal. Appropriate design, definition, plan and successful implementaion of the project are supported by an adequate project quality plan (PQP). PQP is a powerful management tool that enables the project coordinator and project team to implement all of the planned activities successfully and with appropriate quality within the agreed deadlines and budget. This paper provides an example of a well-designed PQP. The given example provides the required quality of all activities and results (products) of the TEMPUS project that make the project sustainable in the long-term

Facial profile esthetics change of class II malocclusion patients treated with the Herbst appliance as perceived by orthodontists and laypersons

Introduction/objective: The recognition of differences in individual assessment of facial attractiveness could be valuable assistance in planning the orthodontic treatment. The aim of this study was to compare facial profile attractiveness changes of patients treated with the Herbst appliance perceived by orthodontists and laypersons. Methods: The patient sample comprised 33 young Caucasian still-growing patients, aged 14–18 years, with skeletal class II malocclusion treated with the Herbst and multibracket appliances. Facial profile photographs before and after the treatment were shown to 54 orthodontists and 50 laypersons. In the esthetics oriented poll, the evaluators rated the change in facial appearance. Results: The attractiveness scores differed between the two rater groups (p lt 0.001), with orthodontists being more generous, whereas there was no significant difference between female and male evaluators in both groups (p > 0.05). However, scores differed significantly in grading female and male patients (p lt 0.001), so that female patients got higher scores; younger evaluators graded more critically between different age groups of the evaluators (p lt 0.001), as well as between the patients with different initial severity of malocclusion (p lt 0.001). Conclusion: The difference in attractiveness scores differed between two groups, with laypersons being more critical than orthodontists. Higher scores were given to female patients by both groups, as well as by the evaluators in the older age group.Uvod/Cilj: Prepoznavanje razlika u individualnoj proce- ni facijalne atraktivnosti može biti od velike pomoći u planiranju ortodontske terapije. Cilj rada je bio da se uporedi promena atraktivnosti profila lica bolesnika tretiranih Herbstovim aparatom od strane ortodonata i laika. Metode: Uzorak se sastojao se od 33 ispitanika uzrasta 14–18 godina, koji su imali malokluziju II klase i lečeni Herbstovim aparatom u kombinaciji sa gornjim i donjim fiksnim aparatom. Njihove profilne fotografije pre i posle terapije pregledali su 54 ortodonta i 50 laika. Oni su ocenjivali, u vidu ankete, promenu facijalne atraktivnosti. Rezultati: Ocene facijalne privlačnosti razlikovale su se između dve grupe (p lt 0,001), tako što su ortodonti dava- li veće ocene, dok nije bilo statistički značajne razlike između polova u obe grupe (p > 0,05). Međutim, rezultati su se značajno razlikovali pri ocenjivanju muških i ženskih bolesnika (p lt 0,001), te su bolesnice dobile veće ocene. Takođe, rezultati su se značajno razlikovali između različitih starosnih grupa ocenjivača (p lt 0,001), tako da je mlađa grupa davala niže ocene, te bila kritičnija u pro- ceni. Razlika je bila značajna i kod ocenjivanja bolesnika sa različitim stepenom izraženosti anomalije (p lt 0,001). Zaključak: Razlika u ocenama facijalne privlačnosti postojala je između dve grupe, te su laici bili kritičniji u ocenjivanju u odnosu na ortodonte. Veće ocene dobile su bolesnice od strane obe grupe, a starija uzrasna grupa ocenjivala je većim ocenama sve bolesnike

ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEM AND ITS PROTECTION

All developed countries are in transition from the IT economy to a web economy - the biggest technological innovation that will have a long-term positive effect on the formation of the economic growth rate, the major structural changes and on the differentiated effects on the economic areas that are, at a faster or a slower rate, being included in this technological change. The electronic commerce or e-commerce has a huge potential for development. The electronic commerce between the companies (B-2-B) is significantly greater compared to retail electronic commerce (B-2-C). In both spheres of trade, the Internet is used as a platform for the transfer of information and for concluding business deals. Market economy requires Accelerated Payment Processing which is achieved by introducing and improving the electronic payment procedures. There is an emphasized dichotomy between the two spheres of the payment system: large-value and small-value payments. The large value payment systems can be described as the arteries of the payment system, and the small-value transfer systems as a complex network of veins that bind the entire economy

A Runtime Job Scheduling Algorithm for Cluster Architectures with Dataflow Accelerators

This article discusses specialized computer cluster architectures for high performance computing that include both control-flow and DataFlow components, as well as their runtime scheduling algorithms. A novel optimal scheduling algorithm for such architectures is proposed. The proposed algorithm is general, but is limited in some cases due to its time complexity. From the base optimal algorithm, two additional heuristic algorithms are derived, and then compared to other schedulers. These heuristic algorithms produce near-optimal schedules for both DataFlow hardware jobs and control-flow jobs at large job counts, with negligible scheduling penalty. Compared to an optimal scheduler, the performance gain decreases slightly as job count increases. This research illustrates that the performance of existing cluster structures can be considerably improved by adding appropriate DataFlow accelerators and a proper scheduling algorithm, while at the same time decreasing the system transistor count and power consumption

System for automatically preventing the raising of ash from dedicated landfills

The paper presents a system for automatic prevention of raising of ashes from dedicated landfills based on a simple mathematical model which has modest entry requirements for meteorological data. Such an approach is efficient enough and enables fast information retrieval, Le., zones with different concentrations of dust in the air, enabling quick start of counter measures to reduce emissions of ashes into the air. The system hardware consists of an automatic weather station, set of meters that determine moisture of ash, set of remotely managed sprinklers, computers, microprocessor and microcontroller based elements for the local acquisition and management of the executive elements and modules for wireless data transfer. An original software application for the system management has been developed. Within the application there is a module that allows entering of all data necessary to configure the system, as well as data about sensors and sprinklers. Based on the meteorological input data, measured moisture content of the ashes, and on the basis of determined functional dependencies, special software module operates sprinklers for soaking the surfaces from which the ashes is emitted into the air, in order to eliminate these emissions. The system, based on the developed mathematical model, predicts the propagation of ashes through the air, as well as dry and wet deposition, in real-time. The system automatically stores all the data relevant to the future analyses and reporting. The system is designed and implemented as modular and open. A custom developed graphical user interface serves as Man-Machine Interface (MMI). By using the TCP/IP connection it could be easily connected with the other information systems

The ultimate dataflow for ultimate supercomputers-on-a-chip, for scientific computing, geo physics, complex mathematics, and information processing

This paper introduces a conceptual 100BillionTransistor (100BT) SuperComputers-on-a-Chip consisting of N big multi-core processors, 1000N small many-core processors, and two hardware accelerators - an ASIC TPU-like fixed-structure systolic array accelerator and a FPGA based flexible-structure re-programmable accelerator for bandwidth-bound and latency-critical Machine Learning applications respectively. The proposed SuperComputers-on-a-chip concept requires interfaces to specific external accelerators based on Quantum, Optical, Molecular, and Biological paradigms (programmable using EnergyFlow programming models - Energy Flow also representing a concept introduced in this paper) but these issues are outside the scope of this article. Keywords - Accelerators, Big Data, ControlFlow, DataFlow, ManyCore, Machine Learning, MultiCore, Systolic Array.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version