This contribution presents the experimental verijcation of the newly developed Hamilton-based dynamic model ofDELTA direct drive parallel robot by measurements of DELTA robot's motor torques. The strain gage technology was applied. The experiment is in author's opinion the Jirst ever for robot DELTA. The experimental results validate the modelling of robot DELTA as a Aystem of rigid bodies, con...

The treatment of 14 patients in severe shock accompanying myocardial infarction with i-norepinephrine (Levophed) in some cases and phenylephline (Neo-Synephrine) in others (lemonstratecl a significantly higher recovery rate with l-norepinephrine. Twelve of the patients were in congestive heart failure. Using strain-gage technics in fully conscious, trained dogs, l-norepinephrine was shown to pr...

For a number of years, "process-product" re searchers have studied the relationship between teacher behaviors (process) and student achievement (product) with the hope of determining what teacher behaviors will lead to increases in student achieve ment and attitude. At last, this research has borne fruit. Several reviewers of process-product research have recently concluded that effective teach...

Piezoresistivity (change of the volume electrical resistivity with strain) in continuous carbon fiber polymer-matrix structural composites allows electrical-resistance-based strain/ stress sensing. Uniaxial through-thickness compression is encountered in fastening. As shown for a 24-lamina quasi-isotropic epoxy-matrix composite, compression results in (i) strain-induced reversible decreases in ...

The GAGE family of tumor-associated antigens is present in a wide spectrum of human tumors but is highly restricted among normal tissues except to the testis. By reverse transcription-PCR, GAGE expression was detected in 55 of 67 neuroblastomas (NBs; 8 of 12 stage 1, 13 of 13 stage 2, 9 of 12 stage 3, 7 of 12 stage 4S, and 18 of 18 stage 4), 5 of 5 Ewing's and peripheral neuroectodermal tumors,...

The damage identification study presented in this article leveraged a full-scale sub-component experiment conducted in the Charles Lee P owell Structural Research Laboratories at the University of California, San Diego. As a payload project attached to a quasi-static test of a full-scale composite beam, a high-quality set of lowamplitude vibration response data was acquired from the beam at var...

Two wheelchairs, one manual, one electrically powered, were instrumented with strain gages and operated over various laboratory terrains. Both wheelchairs were folding models with cross tubes pinned together at the center. The wheelchairs were operated on a constant speed treadmill with no bump, and with 0.953 cm (0.375 in) and 1.6 cm (0.625 in) dowels simulating bumps. The wheelchairs were als...