A new method for workpiece error analysis and compensation in turning is introduced. It is known that the workpiece error consists of two parts: machine tool error (including the geometric error and thermal-induced error) and cuttinginduced error. The geometric error of the machine tool is independent on machining operation and, hence, can be measured o€ -line using a ®ne-touch sensor with a Q-...

OBJECTIVE Clinical trial outcomes often involve an ordinal scale of subjective functional assessments but the optimal way to quantify results is not clear. In stroke, the most commonly used scale, the modified Rankin Score (mRS), a range of scores ("Shift") is proposed as superior to dichotomization because of greater information transfer. The influence of known uncertainties in mRS assessment ...

OBJECTIVE In public health and health services research, the inclusion of geographic information in data sets is critical. Because of concerns over the re-identification of patients, data from small geographic areas are either suppressed or the geographic areas are aggregated into larger ones. Our objective is to estimate the population size cut-off at which a geographic area is sufficiently la...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological and clinical studies, often including anthropometric measures, have established obesity as a major risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes. Appropriate cut-off values for anthropometric parameters are necessary for prediction or decision purposes. The cut-off corresponding to the Youden-Index is often applied in epidemiology and biomedical literature for di...

Throughout this section, G = (V,E) is a multi-graph. A cut of G is a bipartition (S, S̄) of the vertex set of G. The capacity of a cut is the number of edges having one endpoint on both sides of the cut. A min-cut is a cut of minimum capacity. A minimum cut can be computed with the help of maxflow computations. For some vertex s and every other vertex t, one computes the minimum cut separating s...

Cut-elimination is usually presented as a set of local proof reduction steps together with a terminating strategy thus showing the existence of cut-free proofs for all provable sequents. Viewing cut-elimination as a transformation of mathematical proofs, not only the existence but also the structure and content of the cut-free proofs deserves investigation. In this paper we use proof skeletons ...

introduction: medication errors are among the most serious health errors threatening patient safety in all countries, with major impacts on public health. midwives as members of healthcare systems are prone to such errors. therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine medication errors and the contributing factors among midwives working in maternity units of mashhad university of medical scie...

acres, and you enjoy a variety of activities on your land: watching wildlife, hiking, hunting, picking berries, picnicking or taking photos of wildlife and wildflowers. You delight in the beauty and solitude that comes with owning a woodland. You warm yourself in late fall and winter by cutting a little firewood, and you wouldn’t mind making a little extra cash, though managing your woodland fo...