Because of a lack of available miniaturized multiaxial load sensors to measure the normal load and the lateral load simultaneously, quantitative in situ scratch devices inside scanning electron microscopes and the transmission electron microscopes have barely been developed up to now. A novel two-axis load sensor was designed in this paper. With an I-shaped structure, the sensor has the functio...

The load on a Web server depends on the behavior of users, both individually and in the aggregate. The behavior of the individual user includes abandoning a site that is too slow; this is both a vital result of site performance and a variable that affects the shape of the load on a site. The behavior of a population of users causes variance in the instantaneous load on a Web server, which stron...

SUMMARY c The concept that creep response is the result of a transient approach to a minimum strain rate continuously modified by accumulating damage has been investigated using high precision creep data. It was considered that the accumulated creep strain might be some measure of internal damage and curves of log creep strain rate against creep strain are shown to exhibit linearity at higher s...

This paper presents a systematic load identification procedure for a class of parallel robot manipulators. It is considered as a regular dynamic robot identification problem since the load is rigidly fixed on the robot-platform. The challenge is that the estimation must be based only on the measurements obtained through sensors in the robot actuators. The load identification procedure is exempl...

Testing auction mechanisms experimentally in a controlled environment provides an inexpensive means for evaluating their relative merits. This paper describes a framework for testing the efficacy of a price-responsive load on a uniform price last accepted offer and a soft-cap market. Experimental evidence to date based on uniform price market testing has shown an ability of price responsive loa...

Two simple proof-load testing procedures are suggested to estimate the correlation between two variables that can individually only be determined destructively. The first procedure assumes that the means and variances of the variables are known. The second testing procedure is more flexible and requires no prior information. By assuming that the variables have a bivariate normal distribution an...

Methods Ten obese men participated in cross-over 4-week moderate(MIIT) and high(HIIT) intensity interval cycling. MIIT consisted of 5-min stages at ±20% of mechanical work at 45 %VO2peak, and HIIT consisted of 30-sec work at 90 %VO2peak and 30-sec rests for 30-45 min. The assessments included a constant-load test consisted of 5-min rest, 45-min cycling at 45 %VO2peak followed by 60-min recovery...

Three deformation measurement experiments have been undertaken where, in each experiment, a structure was subject to controlled loading. Terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) were used to make measurements at critical intervals during each load test. TLSs, which are a relatively recent innovation, are capable of rapidly capturing thousands of three dimensional points over the surface of an object. ...

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Testing auction mechanisms experimentally in a controlled environment provides an inexpensive means for evaluating their relative merits. This paper describes a framework for testing the efficacy of a price-responsive load on a uniform price last accepted offer and a soft-cap market. Experimental evidence to date based on uniform price market testing has shown an ability of price responsive loa...