OBJECTIVES In 1981, Peter A. Stewart published a paper describing his concept for employing Strong Ion Difference. In this study we compared the HCO3 levels and Anion Gap (AG) calculated using the classic method and the Stewart method. METHODS Four hundred nine (409) arterial blood gases of 90 patients were collected retrospectively. Some were obtained from the same patients in different time...

This paper demonstrates the potential of applying PDlike fuzzy logic controller for active vibration control of piezoelectric Stewart platforms. Through simulation, the control authority of the piezo stack actuators for effectively damping the Stewart platform vibration can be evaluated for further implementation of the system. Each leg of the piezoelectric Stewart platform consists of a linear...

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for social rather than medical reasons—i.e., in terms of their age, education, ethnicity, marital status, inner-city and rural residence and ability to pay for services.3 This patient profile suggests that midwives are primarily being used to fill health care gaps among the economically disadvantaged. New Medicaid reimbursement regulations could be partially responsible for this relationship,4 ...

Organisms across species use the strategy of generating structures in their environment to lower cognitive complexity. Examples include pheromones, markers, colour codes, etc. Distributed Cognition theory has argued that studying such ‘epistemic structures’ can provide insights into the development and nature of internal representations, and cognition itself. We develop this claim by providing ...

today most of financial analyst believes that companies for creating value should have more return than cost of capital. this concept is operationalised by applying eva an ir. as a result of changes created by stewart in the ri concept, eva has become a new tool of financial performance management. stewart believes that for evaluating internal and external performance eva should be used instead...

trajectories generally used to describe the space and time required to perform a desired motion task for a mobile robot or manipulator system. in this paper, we considered a cubic polynomial trajectory for the problem of moving a mobile robot from its initial position to a goal position in over a continuous set of time. along the path, the robot requires to observe a certain acceleration profil...

This paper focuses on parameter identification of a target tracker robot possessing flexible joints using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. Since, belt and pulley mechanisms are known as flexible joints in robotic systems, their elastic behavior affecting a tracker robot is investigated in this work. First, dynamic equations governing the robot behavior are extracted taking into acco...