There are currently no specific, published data quantifying the need for safe injection equipment or the amount of infectious sharps waste produced by testing and treatment programs for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria. With growing funding in these areas there is an increased need to ensure all programs are integrating safe injection approaches and equipment in order t...

A-scans from ultrasonic testing of long shafts are complex signals, thus the discrimination of different types of echoes is of importance for non-destructive testing and equipment maintenance. Research has focused on selecting features of physical significance or exploring classifier like Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines. This paper summarizes and reports on our comprehens...

Microgravity adversely affects several physiological systems. As space exploration moves to extended flights, understanding which mechanisms microgravity influences may contribute to the health and safety of astronauts aboard. Maximum oxygen consumption (VO2 max) testing is used to monitor changes to cardiorespiratory function. Currently the equipment used to such testing aboard the Internation...

COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 29 | NUMBER 96 | 2016 • Snellen chart for far vision • Pen torch for pupil reaction • Occluder for cover testing • Red probe or red mydriatic bottle top for colour desaturation testing • Direct ophthalmoscope for fundoscopy Also useful: • Ruler for lid function and pupil diameter • Cotton wool and office pin for sensation testing • Pseudo-isochromatic plate...

Interoperability testing is an inherently distributed task. It connects different implementations together and determines if they interact according to their specifications, providing the expected services. Deployment, configuration management and operation of an interoperability solution can be drastically improved with the use of virtualization techniques. Virtualized solution allows simpler ...

Producing and manipulating the sine wave function is a common problem encountered by circuit designers. Sine wave circuits pose a significant design challenge because they represent a constantly controlled linear oscillator. Sine wave circuitry is required in a number of diverse areas, including audio testing, calibration equipment, transducer drives, power conditioning and automatic test equip...

This work introduces a new board-level test technology based on specific synthesizable embedded instruments. The purpose of intelligent embedded instrument is to carry out a vast portion of test application related procedures, perform measurement and configuration of system components thus minimizing the usage of external test equipment. By replacing traditional test and measurement equipment w...

This paper proposes a static test approach suitable for built-in-self-test (BIST) of Analog-to-digital converter Intellectual Property (IP). Static parameters (INL, DNL, gain, offset) are tested without using test equipment. The proposed BIST structure is applicable for testing models of analog-to-digital converters up to 12bits of resolution. Comparison results with dynamic test equipment vali...

BACKGROUND Patients on oral anticoagulant therapy (OAT) require regular testing of the prothrombin time (PT) and the international normalised ratio (INR) to monitor their blood coagulation level to avoid complications of either over or under coagulation. PT/INR can be tested by a healthcare professional or by the patient. The latter mode of the testing is known as patient self-testing or home t...