Extended Abstract In Canada over 40,000 new stroke cases are reported annually [1], and it costs the Canadian health care system $3.2 billion a year [2]. Thus, new rehabilitation technologies are being investigated. A rehabilitation robot can be used to deliver repetitive practice to the stroke patients, which is the key element for motor recovery [3, 4]. Safety issues regarding humanrobot inte...

Monitoring the state of mechanical machine tool components is of growing importance for increasing machine tool availability and reducing inspection efforts and costs. Open Numeric Controls offer a new opportunity for getting access to signals of drives as well as of the control itself and to integrate end-user’s individual applications. Because the actual drive signals contain information on t...

As phrases like "managed care backlash" become part of the lexicon in American health care policy circles, it is instructive to examine a managed competition experiment in a vastly different context. Britain's Conservative government instituted reforms in 1991 to transform the National Health Service (NHS) from a centrally administered service to managed competition between purchasers and provi...

In recent years, the world has seen a rising backlash against globalization. This article reviews nature, causes, and consequences of globalization backlash. It shows that, contrary to popular narrative, is not associated with large swing in public opinion but rather result its politicization. The increasing influence globalization-skeptic actors resulted more protectionist, isolationist, natio...

A mechanical model of a digital balancing system is constructed and its stability analysis is presented. This model considers experimental problems like backlash and sampling delay. The conditions of existence of stable stationary and periodic solutions are determined for the case of the system without delay. Phase diagrams and bifurcation diagrams are revealed after simulations and bifurcation...