This study was performed to determine the changes in electromyographic activities in the shoulder and forearm muscles when using the bare hands, well-fitting gloves, and gloves that are one size smaller or one size larger for simulated assembly operations. Sixteen asymptomatic seated workers with normal hands and no obvious deformities, skin diseases, or allergies were recruited. The subjects w...

Background Rocker shoes are often prescribed to reduce in-shoe pressures in order to minimise the risk of ulceration in diabetic patients. However, the efficacy of the 3 principal design features of a rocker shoe (apex position, rocker angle and apex angle, see Figure 1) is unknown. Only one known study to date has systematically varied 2 of the 3 design features [1]. Therefore the aim of this ...

The SISSI program implements a novel approach for the estimation of the optimal sample size in experimental data collection. It provides a visual evaluation system of sample size determination, derived from a resampling-based procedure (namely, jackknife). The approach is based on intensive use of the sample data by systematically taking sub-samples of the original data set, and calculating mea...

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are designed for monitoring the patient’s conditions and assist them in critical health situation. Tiny size wireless sensors sense the data related to patient health. Further, the sensed data sends to base station for further process. The base station sends the data to the nearest sink node or to the nearest medical center or hospital. In order to complete t...

This paper discusses the research experience of a student who integrated design and manufacturing functions to improve a brake shoe used on a band saw. The CAD/CAM and composite tooling technologies selected for this project were primarily based on student’s undergraduate and graduate course work. The scanning/digitizing and rapid prototyping technologies were also studied. This study shows the...

Custom-tailored products are meant by the products having various sizes and shapes to meet the customer’s different tastes or needs. Thus fabrication of custom-tailored products inherently involves inefficiency. Custom-tailoring shoes are not an exception because corresponding shoe-lasts must be custom-ordered. It would be nice if many template shoe-lasts had been cast in advance, the most simi...

New software tools for data analysis provide rich opportunities for representing and understanding data. However, little research has been done on how learners use these tools to think about data, nor how that affects teaching. This paper describes several ways that learners use new software tools to deal with variability in analyzing data, specifically in the context of comparing groups. The t...

This paper analyzes the relationship between Voas s soft ware testability measure and Musa s fault exposure ratio K It has come to our attention that industrial users of Musa s model employ his published experimental value for K x for their projects instead of creating their own K estimate for the system whose reliability is being as sessed We provide a theoretical argument for how a slight mod...

Silicon fusion bonding is studied as an enabling technology for the fabrication of microrobotic mechanisms. The e!ects of both surface activation technique and annealing temperature on bond strength are considered using a crack-opening technique. As part of the study, the relationship between patterned silicon feature size and the resulting bond strength is explored. Based on the experimental r...

The organization of semantic knowledge according to relations between concepts influences many facets of higher cognition. Therefore, understanding the origins of relations knowledge is a key focus of cognitive development research. This study investigated the contributions of environmental statistical regularities to relations knowledge in preschool-age children. Using CHILDES to estimate co-o...