The "Hanger Reflex" is a phenomenon in which a participant involuntarily rotates their head when a wire hanger is attached it, and has also been observed on the wrist and the ankle. Moreover, the force caused by the Hanger Reflex on the wrist is enhanced by adding a vibration stimulus. These phenomena might be potentially useful for the rehabilitation of movement disorders characterized by abno...

Introduction: This study investigates the current practice of surgeons in the United Kingdom with regards to their usage of prophylactic antibiotics for percutaneous orthopaedic procedures. Methods: An electronic survey of 10 questions was devised and sent to all members of the British Orthopaedic Association. Three hundred and three replies were obtained (172 consultants, 131 trainees). Result...

Greenville Tube Company (GT), a manufacturer of high-precision, small-diameter stainless steel tubing, conducted an in-house system performance optimization project to improve the efficiency of its No. 6 tube drawing bench. This tube drawing bench plays an integral role in the production process, but severely hindered the productivity and energy efficiency of the facility. GT’s plant engineer, ...

Euler diagrams, which form the basis of numerous visual languages, can be an effective representation of information when they are both well-matched and well-formed. However, being well-matched and well-formed alone does not imply effectiveness. Other diagrammatical properties need to be considered. Information visualization theorists have known for some time that orientation has the potential ...

This paper presents a progressive algorithm by which we can narrow down the searching domain for face identification and reconstruct various 3D objects from a single freehand line sketch drawing in short time. The sketch drawings served as an input for the reconstruction process in this paper are obtained from an inaccurate freehand sketch of a 3D wireframe object, which is the edge–vertex grap...

The investigation of the terrorist attack is a time-critical task. The investigators have a limited time window to diagnose the organizational background of the terrorists, to run down and arrest the wire-pullers, and to take an action to prevent or eradicate the terrorist attack. The intuitive interface to visualize the intelligence data set stimulates the investigators’ experience and knowled...

An important key to reconstructing a three-dimensional object depicted by a two-dimensional line drawing projection is face identification. Identification of edge circuits in a 2D projection corresponding to actual faces of a 3D object becomes complex when the projected object is in wireframe representation. This representation is commonly encountered in drawings made during the conceptual desi...

This paper presents a new approach for reconstructing solids with planar, quadric and toroidal surfaces from three-view engineering drawings. By applying geometric theory to 3-D reconstruction, our method is able to remove restrictions placed on the axes of curved surfaces by existing methods. The main feature of our algorithm is that it combines the geometric properties of conics with af®ne pr...

Equal channel angular pressing has been used to refine the grain size of commercially pure titanium (grade 2) as well as other metals and alloys. Titanium grade 2 is usually processed at about 350 °C because it lacks sufficient ductility at lower temperatures. The warm processing temperature limits the capability of the equal channel angular pressing technique in improving the strength of titan...

In this paper, we propose the wireframe representation of nD object, which is a single 2D line drawing. A wireframe model of an nD object is composed of a set of edges connecting a set of vertices, a subset of closed r-chains called boundary r-chains which surround the (r + 1)D pieces of the object, and a set of filling patterns for the boundary r-chains for 0 < r < n. The wireframe representat...