The investigators measured efficiencies of body powered prehensors and cable control components of prostheses available for young children. Results indicated that the cable control systems and hook type prehensors have moderate to high efficiencies, but children's body powered hands have very low efficiencies. Measures of arm and shoulder strength of 3-5 year-old limb deficient children, both o...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to describe factors of possible importance for the occurrence of hand injury from powered wood splitters. PATIENTS Patients were identified by a computerized patient registry. Information was obtained from hospital records, a written questionnaire and a structured telephone interview. RESULTS Very few splitters were constructed according to Europea...

Mechnosensational human-machine interfaces (HMIs) can greatly extend communication channels between human and external devices in a natural way. The mechnosensational HMIs based on biopotential signals have been developing slowly owing to the low signal-to-noise ratio and poor stability. In eye motions, the corneal-retinal potential caused by hyperpolarization and depolarization is very weak. H...

The approach taken during restructuring the Mechatronics Program at the University of Canterbury is described, along with challenges faced. The background of the University of Canterbury Mechatronics program is examined, as are the challenges of integrating the program within the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. The new Mechatronics p...

Driven by scientific progress and economic stimulus, medical diagnostics will move to a stage in which straightforward medical diagnoses are independent of physician visits and large centralized laboratories. The future of basic diagnostic medicine will lie in the hands of private individuals. We have taken significant strides towards achieving this goal by developing an autoassembly assay for ...

Abstrak Evaluasi proyek selalu menjadi kunci dari manajemen proyek rekayasa. Evaluasi proyek adalah pekerjaan yang kompleks yang melibatkan banyak faktor. Hasil evaluasi akhir selalu dipengaruhi langsung oleh definisi indeks evaluasi yang bervariasi dan bobot yang terkait. Makalah ini terutama mempelajari penilaian kemampuan para ahli dan pembentukan sistem evaluasi proyek indeks dalam tinjauan...

Too much of the debate about how respect for human rights can be advanced on a global basis currently revolves around crisis situations involving so-called mass atrocity crimes and the possibility of addressing abuse through the use of military force. This preoccupation, as understandable as it is, serves to mask much harder questions of how to deal with what might be termed silent and continuo...

“Our [power] plant no longer needs imported equipment or skills. ...Recalling the past, [veteran machinery maintenance man] Lu said, ‘Under imperialist control, all important technical data was withheld from Chinese workers. ...Today all the technology is in our hands. And we run our plant ten times better than the imperialists!’” “Shanghai’s biggest power plant—then and now,” China Reconstruct...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the difference in self-contamination rates and levels of contact and droplet protection associated with enhanced respiratory and contact precautions (E-RCP) and a personal protective system that included a full body suit, personal protective equipment and a powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR). METHODS In this prospective, randomized, con...

UNLABELLED Improved performance of externally powered myoelectric hands is possible when the direct control of the digit flexion and grip force are given over to an electronic controller which frees the operator to concentrate on other demands. DESIGN A commercial myoelectric hand was modified to take the new touch and slip sensors and novel control method. SUBJECT An adult male with a trau...