To provide a strip connecting apparatus and a method therefor which are less costly, short in welding time and high in welding quality. The system includes an anthropometric static image data analyzer, an implant model data generator, a kinematic model simulator, and a dynamic response data analyzer. In such a manner, client devices can be coordinated to communicate with the system in a dynamic real-time tiered manner. An actuator ring is moveable between positions engaged with and released from the end segments of the first ring. The luminous flux may be applied in several places of a surface of the first layer to heat regions of the embedded layer and generate a propagating thermal front in the first layer opposite the heated regions of the embedded layer, which generate constraints within the second layer. A robust business model provides support for realistic activities and allows a user to experience real world consequences for their actions and decisions and a tutorial system analyzes student inputs to determine appropriate feedback to teach new skills.