In mobile robotics, obtaining stable image of a mounted camera is crucial for operating a mobile system to complete given tasks. This note presents the development of a high-speed image stabilizing device using linear shaft actuator, and a new image stabilization method inspired by human gaze stabilization process known as vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR). In the proposed control, the reference is...

The Italian vibration database is presented. It is hosted by a web server at the National Institute of Occupational Prevention and Safety (ISPESL) in Rome, Italy (http: / /www.ispesl.it/vibrationdatabase). It supports in risk assessment employers who have to comply with Legislative Decree 187/05, now replaced by Legislative Decree 81/08, which transposes into law Vibration Directive 2002/44/EC....

Magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) has been demonstrated to be effective in structural vibration control because of controllable stiffness and damping properties with the effect external magnetic fields. To achieve a high performance MRE device-based control, robust accurate model is necessary describe nonlinear dynamics device. This article aims at realising this target via modeling an innovat...

AIMS To determine whether quantitative blood culture methods could improve the diagnosis of septicaemic melioidosis. METHODS A comparison of conventional broth based blood cultures, a pour plate method, and a commercial lysis centrifugation (Isolator 10) blood culture system was conducted in 71 Thai patients with severe melioidosis. The time to identification of B pseudomallei was recorded fo...

In this paper, we focus on concurrent programs that use locks to achieve isolation of data accessed by critical sections of code. We present ISOLATOR, an algorithm that guarantees isolation for well-behaved threads of a program that obey a locking discipline even in the presence of ill-behaved threads that disobey the locking discipline. ISOLATOR uses code instrumentation, data replication, and...

The Isolator 1.5 Microbial tube (E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del.) is a commercially available blood culture system for use in pediatrics. The methodology is based on blood lysis followed by direct plating of the sample on culture media to detect bacteria and fungi. Comparative recovery rates of pathogens from blood collected in this and a conventional broth system were si...