Using lasers to measure pollutants

Miniaturized Cutting and Drilling Using Picosecond Lasers Sidebar: Using Picosecond Lasers to Produce Disposable Ophthalmic Blades

Traditionally, electrical discharge machining (EDM) or conventional laser tools have been used to manufacture a range of precision medical devices. However, these manufacturing methods cannot be used to achieve the miniature features, precision, surface quality, and yields required for manufacturing microfluidic devices for clinical lab-on-a-chip applications, precision drug-delivery catheters,...

Using data to measure outcomes.

The health care marketplace is beginning to demand that providers develop and provide outcomes data. But implementing a process of collecting outcomes data can be very labor intensive. Planning must include defining outcomes, understanding how outcomes are used in analysis and decision-making activities, identifying data sources, and identifying the users.

Using NLP to measure democracy

This paper uses natural language processing to create the first machine-coded democracy index, which I call Automated Democracy Scores (ADS). The ADS are based on 42 million news articles from 6,043 different sources and cover all independent countries in the 19932012 period. Unlike the democracy indices we have today the ADS are replicable and have standard errors small enough to actually dist...

Using Competition to Measure Relatedness

SFF Using Diode Lasers

Rapid prototypings using direct selective laser sintering (SLS) ofmetal/ceramic powders have a great potential for design and fabrication of near net shape of metal/ceramic parts. At presents CO2, Nd:YAG and Excimer are the only possible solutions for the heavy duty manufacturing applications. At the University of Connecticut, researchers advanced the concept of rapid prototyping and other desk...