An increasing number of patients who are receiving anticoagulation or antiplatelet therapy require cutaneous surgery. Such pharmacotherapies are usually suspended based on experience in gynecologic, thoracic, and abdominal surgery. However, this practice may increase the risk of suffering a thromboembolic event. We review perioperative management of anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy, compl...

Background The flow of suspensions through channel bifurcations is a relevant topic in several applications such as microfluidics and biology. Indeed, a number of microfluidic devices consisting of a main channel with several side branches, aimed at separating particles with different size, has been proposed [1–4]. From the biological side, the microcirculatory network is made of many capillary...

Conducting polymer composite films comprised of polyaniline (PANI) and single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) was prepared by electrochemical codeposition during the electropolymerization in an aniline solution with suspending SWNT. The fabricated composite films are assessed with respect to their potential application as support materials in Pt electrocatalyst for electrochemical oxidation of met...

To improve the efficiency of cargo handling with cranes it is necessary to control the crane trolley position so that the swing of the hanging load is minimized. In this paper we consider a linear parameter-varying model of the crane, where the time-varying parameter is the length of the suspending rope. We consider the set of models given by frozen values of the rope length and show how all th...

Process development, cheaper bioreactor cost, and faster fermentation rate can aid in reducing the cost of fermentation. In this article, these ideas were combined in developing a previously introduced textile bioreactor for ethanol production. The bioreactor was developed to utilize flocculating yeast for ethanol production under anaerobic conditions. A mixing system, which works without aerat...

The presented controller system has been designed and dedicated to the intuitive and instinctive cable driven robot manipulator. The described robot manipulator is the moving platform suspended by the set of six variable-length steel cables. In practice the construction is like a standard inverted Stewart platform the platform is able to move in all six degrees of freedom with respect to its ba...

Service choreographies are commonly used as the means for enabling inter-organizational collaboration by providing a global view on the message exchange between involved participants. Choreographies are ideal for a number of application domains that are classified under the Collaborative, Dynamic & Complex (CDC) systems area. System users in these application domains require facilities to contr...

Inspection robot for power transmission line is a new type of technical carrier for detection and inspection of mechanical/ electrical failures in high-voltage (110kV, 220kV) and extrahigh voltage (500kV or above) power transmission system. The robot equipped with sensors, detection instruments and data communication apparatus, is capable of inspecting transmission system without suspending pow...