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Dynamic Navigation in Endodontics: Guided Access Cavity Preparation by Means of a Miniaturized Navigation System
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2022
Dynamic navigation systems (DNS) provide real-time visualization and guidance to the operator during endodontic access cavities preparation. The planning of the procedure requires three-dimensional imaging utilizing cone beam computed tomography and surface scans. After the export of the planning data to the DNS, access cavities can be prepared with minimal invasion.
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Dynamic Navigation for Dental Implant Placement
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2022
Dynamic computer-aided implant surgery (DCAIS) is a controlled implant surgical placement method performed without a surgical template using optical control. The real-time intraoperative control of movement and position of the surgical device simplifies the procedure and gives more freedom to the surgeon, providing similar precision as static navigation methods.
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Practical Methodology of Cognitive Tasks Within a Navigational Assessment
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2015
Children who have complex communication needs can benefit from the use of a speech-generating device (SGD). Cognitive skills were identified as having an impact on the ability to navigate between levels of SGDs. This protocol describes the steps needed for Speech-language Pathologists to assess cognitive skills and navigational abilities.
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Modeling the Functional Network for Spatial Navigation in the Human Brain
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2023
This paper presents an integrative approach to investigating the functional network for spatial navigation in the human brain. This approach incorporates a large-scale neuroimaging meta-analytic database, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging, and network modeling and graph-theoretical techniques.
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Computer-Generated Animal Model Stimuli
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2007
Computer-generated stimuli using the Jacky dragon as a model.
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Animals can integrate visual landmarks, odors, sounds, polarized light, celestial patterns, and Earth’s magnetic field rather than relying on a single source of information. This combination links sensory evidence from the surroundings with internal processing, helping an animal determine direction and position while moving through variable environments.
Path integration updates an animal’s estimated position from its movement over time. This internal process can contribute to navigation even as the animal travels through changing surroundings, because position is continually adjusted as movement occurs. Studying it helps researchers distinguish internally maintained information from cues supplied directly by the environment.
Different cues connect navigation to different environmental conditions, including habitat structure, weather, and human-made disturbances. Examining how animals use visual, chemical, acoustic, light-based, or magnetic information shows how movement depends on surrounding conditions. This perspective helps explain why environmental change may alter an animal’s ability to reach important destinations.
Changes in habitat structure may alter the environmental information animals use to orient and move. Because navigation can depend on landmarks and other surrounding cues, modified landscapes may affect routes toward resources, mates, shelters, or seasonal destinations. Environmental research therefore treats movement behavior as an indicator of how habitat change influences animal responses.
Researchers study navigation to understand how animals reach seasonal destinations and how movement supports access to resources, mates, and shelters. These findings contribute to migration research and wildlife conservation by revealing how animals respond to habitat conditions, weather, and human-made disturbances that may influence movement and survival.
Navigation research can support predictions about how climate change and changing landscapes may affect animal movement, survival, and ecological interactions. By examining responses to environmental conditions, researchers can identify how altered habitats or weather may influence journeys to seasonal destinations and other essential locations, providing context for conservation planning.