This study investigated some aspects of the validity of walking speed recording in 15 normal subjects, 16 trans-femoral amputees and 8 knee disarticulation amputees. The variability and test-retest reliability of walking speed and the influence of simultaneous recording of EMG and goniometry on comfortable and fast walking speeds were studied. The variability between sessions was mainly determi...

1. Define the principles of gel and solid-phase technology. 2. Describe the test reactions and methods of grading reactions for each technology. 3. List the advantages and disadvantages of each technology. 4. Compare the two technologies in terms of equipment, test reactions, procedures, sensitivity, and quality control. 5. Discuss the automated equipment that is available for each technology. ...

background : one of the essential components of learning and educational program is evaluation or examination. there are various methods for evaluating clinical skills among which objective structured clinical examination (osce) has been recognized as the most reliable method for evaluation of the clinical skills. methods : this was a one-step single-group descriptive study which was conducted ...

This paper concerns design and realization of programmable emulator of mechanical loads for motors. The aim of this paper is to build integrated test equipment, which will allow realistic testing of drive parameters and mainly quality of control structures on controlling different kinds of loads. For this purpose create user-friendly software which will allow emulation of physical system in rea...

-This paper describes a novel data acquisition system designed and implemented with facilities for measuring and monitoring the characteristics of a PV solar cell , module and/or system. The functioning of the equipment is based on the so-called virtual instrumentation. This is a non-conventional concept, however it does not have the many limitations in other systems. Additionally, the whole eq...

The paper describes a new system that automatically calibrates the linearity of a resistance thermometry bridge or readout. A thermometry bridge, like all measuring and test equipment, must be regularly tested to ensure it is operating properly and accurately. Previously, this could only be done using special equipment and time-consuming procedures. The new technique described in the paper faci...

This paper describes a novel data acquisition system designed and implemented with facilities for measuring and monitoring the characteristics of a PV solar cell, module and/or system. The functioning of the equipment is based on the so-called virtual instrumentation. This is a non-conventional concept, however it does not have the many limitations in other systems. Additionally, the whole equi...

This paper describes a new maintenance selection and scheduling approach for bulk transmission equipment that is based on the cumulative long-term risk caused by each piece of equipment. This approach not only accounts for equipment failure probability and equipment damage, as do most state of the art reliability centered maintenance (RCM) approaches, but it also accounts for the outage consequ...