Even though oral route is the most preferred one, certain conditions necessitate the use of parenteral dosage form. But this route being invasive, is considered as non-patient compliant. Thus, there came a need for a more patient compliant system which led to the development of needleless injection technology. This review intends to throw light on the basic mechanisms by which this technology w...

Standard compliant enhancements of the emerging H.264/AVC coding algorithm for transmission over lossy IP-based networks are described with the error resilience features being presented in greater detail. Standard compliant encoder and decoder enhancements as well as the exploitation of transport layer mechanisms to improve the quality in packet lossy environments are presented. Different schem...

Topology optimization is a powerful numerical tool in the synthesis of lightweight structures and compliant mechanisms. Compliant mechanisms present challenges for topology optimization, as they typically exhibit large displacements rotations. Path-generation are class that designed to follow an exact path. The characteristics therefore exclude validity linear finite-element analysis ensure pro...

The development of universal grippers able to pick up unfamiliar objects of widely varying shapes and surfaces is a very challenging task. Passively compliant underactuated mechanisms are one way to obtain the gripper which could accommodate any irregular and sensitive grasping object. The purpose of the underactuation is to use the power of one actuator to drive the opening and closing motion ...

The pseudo-rigid-body model concept allows compliant mechanisms to be analyzed using well-known rigid-body kinematics. This paper presents a pseudo-rigid-body model for initially circular functionally binary pinned-pinned segments that undergo large, nonlinear deflections. The model approximates the functionally binary pinned-pinned segment as three rigid members joined by pin joints. Torsional...

The United States (US) healthcare organizations are continuously struggling to cope-up with evolving regulatory requirements e.g. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001: 2015. These requirements are not only affecting the US healthcare industry but also other industries as well e.g. software indus...