This chapter presents a case study from a global company developing a new generation of programmable controllers to replace several existing products. The system needs to incorporate support for a large number of I/O systems, network types, and communication protocols. To leverage its global development resources and the competency of different development centers, the company decided to adopt ...

background evaluation of the accuracy and performance of sonography units needs tissue-mimicking phantoms. these phantoms play an important role by simulating soft tissues, obviating the need to experiment on humans or animals. objectives to present a simple sonographic phantom for quality control and training purposes. materials and methods the presented phantom consists of a two-part plexigla...

a simple inexpensive con!nuous quality control method, by means of eight basic blood coun!ng parameters, obtained from automated hematology analyzers, using pa!ent samples, is described. a few samples with low, normal and high values were selected and introduced to the instrument early in the morning as the first count, the results of which are plo#ed on the appropriate chart as dots. the same ...

We have developed a novel tensile stage that can be used for in situ electron microscopy examination of the mechanical properties of "superelastic" materials. In our stage, one of the specimen clamps is replaced by a cylindrical roller, which when driven by a motor can easily stretch ("roll on") any specimen irrespective of its plastic properties. We have used the so-called Roll-o-meter in the ...

The photochemica l iso tope separation sche mes have renewed the detailed in vestigati ons o f gas phase photophys ics and photochem istry of UF6 . O ne of the schemes is based o n massive multiphoton excitation o f UF6 us ing o ne or more suitab le IR laser frequcncy in 16l-lm region in its ground electronic state. In the present work we have mode lled such Infrared Multiphoton Di ssoc iati on...

We present 4-meter Kitt Peak telescope and 6.5-meter MMT spectrophotometry of the extremely low-metallicity galaxy SBS 0335–052W, the western companion of the blue compact dwarf galaxy SBS 0335–052E. These observations have been combined with published 10-meter Keck data to derive for the brightest region of SBS 0335– 052W an oxygen abundance 12 + log O/H = 7.12 ± 0.03. This makes SBS 0335–052W...

A light-weight portable neutron survey meter was developed using a mixed organic gas counter for dose management at nuclear power plants and accelerator facilities. This survey meter, NSN31041, is ~2 kg in weight and W160×H250×L300 mm(3) in size, which is capable of measuring neutron ambient dose equivalent rate from thermal to 15 MeV neutrons. The neutron energy response of the survey meter is...

The Sky Quality Meter (SQM) has become the most common device to track the evolution of the brightness of the sky from polluted regions to first class astronomical observatories. A vast database of SQM measurements already exists for many places in the world. Unfortunately, the SQM operates over a wide spectral band and its spectral response interacts with the skys spectrum in a complex manner....

Today, there are many people who enjoy jogging in a regular basis. Many of them uses wearable devices to log their running time, route, etc. To improve running performance, it is important to assess running qualitatively as well. However, these devices do not assess quality of running, and do not teach users what to change and how to change in order to improve quality of running. The purpose of...