In an effort to speed the development of new products and processes, many companies are turning to computer simulations to avoid the time and expense of building prototypes. These computer simulations are often complex, taking hours to complete one run. If there are many variables affecting the results of the simulation, then it makes sense to design an experiment to gain the most information p...

The application of ion current signals is one of the most recent approaches in engine management systems. By applying a small constant DC voltage across the electrodes of the spark plug and measuring the current through the electrode gap, the state of gas may be measured and investigated. In this paper a computer code is developed in order to analyze the state of gas during the combustion p...

OBJECTIVE The present study describes the consumption patterns of sweetened food and drink products in a Catholic Middle Eastern Canadian community and examines its associations with physical activity, sedentary behaviours and BMI. DESIGN A two-stage cross-sectional design was used. In Stage 1 (n 42), 24 h recalls enabled the identification of sweetened products. In Stage 2 (n 192), an FFQ wa...

Formal technical review (FTR) is a cornerstone of software quality assurance. However, the labor-intensive and manual nature of review, along with basic unresolved questions about its process and products, means that review is typically under-utilized or inefficiently applied within the software development process. This paper discusses our initial experiments using CSRS, an instrumented, compu...

objective: the aim of the current study was to assess the impact of computer games and computer-assisted type instruction on dictation scores of elementary school children with attention deficit – hyperactivity disorder (adhd). method: in this single-blind clinical trial, 37 elementary school children with adhd, selected by convenience sampling and divided into group i (n=17) and group ii (n=20...

Engineering design education is traditionally structured such that each individual discipline is taught by a specialist in that discipline. This has artificially created an impression to students that a product should be looked at from different perspective in a segmented manner. This approach hence results in a great problem when computer model based teaching methods are introduced to tackle m...

American Meat Science Association Risk assessment models of meat animal production and processing systems have great potential for assisting meat animal producers, meat animal processors, and regulatory agencies in making critical food safety decisions that impact public health. With the advent of computer software programs, such as @Risk (Palisade Corporation, Newfield, NY), that perform simul...

The volume contains prominent information used to evaluate the visual quality of natural products and can be measured using a computer vision system. system provides an alternative method for measuring products, especially axi-symmetric products. obtained integral solid revolution by rotating boundary curve upper half object cross-section. This study proposes based on cubic spline interpolation...

Purpose of this paper The paper presents an information architecture for managing product information during the whole lifecycle about "dumb" products as well as products that have their own processing capabilities. Real-life implementations presented show the technical feasibility of the architecture and attempt to illustrate the potential commercial impact. Design/methodology/approach As defi...