Health and safety representatives (HSR) have the power to issue provisional improvement notices (PIN) their employer for breaches. This paper examines how PINs influence workplace dynamics or employee voice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with HSRs other key stakeholders. They provided details of organisations which used form three case studies. Some did not believe PINS would be req...

The Spartan®-3 families, consisting of Spartan-3, Spartan-3E, and Extended Spartan-3A devices, support an exceptionally robust and flexible I/O feature set, such that the signaling requirements of most applications can easily be met. It is possible to program User I/O pins of these families to handle many different single-ended signal standards. The standard single-ended signaling voltage level...

Several LIGA (Lithography Galvonoforming Abforming) test mechanisms have been designed and fabricated to study tribology and performance attributes of LIGA mechanisms. The LIGA test mechanism studied in this paper is a ratchet drive mechanism consisting primarily of pawls, cams, and springs ranging in size from about one-half millimeter to tens of millimeters of various nickel alloys fabricated...

during limb lengthening involving external fixation,1 with an incidence as high as 85%.2 The most appropriate pin-site care is controversial; one study even justifies a nihilistic approach.3 Pin sites near joints are more prone to sepsis, as they are subject to greater movement.4 Minor inflammation or superficial infection is usually treated with antibiotics, local wound care, and occasionally ...

BACKGROUND Allergic reactions to the metal head-pins of a head fixation holder are rare. CASE DESCRIPTION A 45-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for the treatment of unruptured cerebral aneurysms. She underwent successful surgical treatment using four head-pins of the Sugita frame. At her first outpatient visit 3 weeks after discharge, redness, sores, and focal hair loss were noted ...

Enhancement of heat transfers in counterflow plate heat exchanger due to presence of an intermediate auxiliary fluid flow is investigated. The intermediate auxiliary channel is supported by transverse conducting pins. The momentum and energy equations for the primary fluids are solved numerically and validated against a derived approximate analytical solution. A parametric study including the e...

Regulated spindle orientation maintains epithelial tissue integrity and stem cell asymmetric cell division. In Drosophila melanogaster neural stem cells (neuroblasts), the scaffolding protein Canoe (Afadin/Af-6 in mammals) regulates spindle orientation, but its protein interaction partners and mechanism of action are unknown. In this paper, we use our recently developed induced cell polarity sy...

This paper introduces aspects of an innovative method towards the development of a hybrid part orienter. Focusing on the principle of minimalism, we investigate the use of overhead pins of various classes over a slow moving conveyor to orient polygonal planar parts. We implement a simple planner that yields sequences of static passive pins to orient a given part from a random initial state to a...