Fixture design is crucial part of manufacturing process. Fixture design is a critical design activity process, in which automation plays an integral role in linking computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD). This paper presents a literature review in computer aided fixture design (CAFD) in terms of automation and optimization techniques over the past decades. First, the...

What happens in the mind of a person who first hears a potentially exciting idea?We examined the neural precursors of spreading ideas with enthusiasm, and dissected enthusiasm into component processes that can be identified through automated linguistic analysis, gestalt human ratings of combined linguistic and non-verbal cues, and points of convergence/divergence between the two. We combined to...

Comparisons were made between diameters of 54 bovine follicles greater than 5.9 mm from 32 pairs of ovaries measured on the ovarian surface and diameters of the same follicles subsequently dissected from the ovaries. Seventy-eight percent of follicles measured on the ovarian surface were within 1.9 mm of the size measured after dissection. The remaining 22% of follicles measured on the surface ...