Purpose: In this work there is presented basic method of synthesis of active and passive mechanical systems realization. The principal aim of the research is to work out a method of structure and parameters searching i.e. structural and parametric synthesis of a discrete model of mechanical system on the base of desired requirements. The requirements refer to dynamic features of the system, par...

The primary goal of the research proposed here is to develop a control scheme for passive haptic devices used as a master device during teleoperation. Haptic, or force-feedback devices can be divided into two groups based on the energetic nature of their actuators, either passive or active. The research here studies the passive devices, more specifically dissipative passive devices that use bra...

Deep-rooted political turbulence, along with the present hybrid regime, have resulted in an undesirable social, economic and milieu Serbia. Such atmosphere is a fertile ground for grey economy, corruption, nepotism restrictions to media freedoms. These ?unconventional? means of social functioning, caused decline trust towards state institutions proportionally, increase citizen participation non...

Euthanasia is one of the controversial topics in current medical ethics. Among the six well-known types of euthanasia, passive voluntary euthanasia (PVE) seems to be more plausible in comparison with other types, from the moral point of view. According to the Kantian framework, ethical features come from 'reason'. Maxims are formulated as categorical imperative which has three different version...

dynamically stable biped robots mimicking human locomotion have received significant attention over the last few decades. formerly, the existence of stable periodic gaits for straight walking of passive biped walkers was well known and investigated as the notion of passive dynamic walking. this study is aimed to elaborate this notion in the case of three dimensional (3d) walking and extend it f...

This paper deals with the applicability of passive and low energy cooling technologies in the Czech Republic. The work includes climate analysis as well as buildings and systems analysis in order to estimate the potential of passive and low energy cooling technologies. The latter is based on case studies, which include both building simulation and monitoring. The role of computer simulation in ...

Virtual colonoscopy on powerful workstations has the distinct advantage of interactive navigation, as opposed to passive viewing of cine loops or pre-computed movies. Because of the prohibitive cost of hardware, only passive displays have been feasible for the wide-scale deployment required for mass screening. The purpose of our work is to compare low-cost commodity hardware as an effective too...

background: radon and its daughters are amongst the most important sources of natural exposure in the world. soil is one of the significant sources of radon/thoron due to both radium and thorium so that the emanated thoron from it may cause increased uncertainties in radon measurements. recently, a diffusion chamber has been designed and optimized for passive discriminative measurements of rado...

background: separate radon and thoron measurements in soil are very important in assessment of internal exposure due to inhalation of such radioactive gases. materials and methods: in this study, a low cost, small size, passive diffusion chamber has been developed for simple measurement of radon-222 and radon-220(thoron) gases separately in soil. the diffusion chamber consists of two films and ...

It is a much-debated issue whether one should assume separate lexical entries for participles used in passive and perfect constructions or whether there is just one lexical entry that is used in different ways depending on whether a passive or perfect auxiliary is present in the clause. In previous work I criticized approaches trying to analyze the passive with one lexical entry for making empi...