Collision handling is a comparatively timeconsuming task in dynamic simulations and the computational efficiency of collision handling techniques can vary significantly dependent on the spatial configuration of the environment. These issues have to be addressed in interactive simulations such as games or surgical simulators, where a pre-defined response time should be guaranteed for each simula...

Following the Government’s changes to tariff and quota arrangements in the 1980’s and the resulting increase in imports of low cost footwear, the Company instituted a major review of its operations. This resulted in a new strategic initiative to improve the Company’s product quality ,responsiveness and competitiveness through investing in technologically advanced plant and equipment, “Quick Res...

The current profile along the 126 ns, multi-bunch beam pulse in the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) is monitored with fast toroids (rise time ~1 ns). Inserted at several positions along the beam line, they allow us to track current transmission as a function of position along the bunch train. Various measurements, such as rise time, current, width, and slope, are made on the digit...

A perceptual study of four tensor glyphs for symmetric, real, traceless tensors was performed. Each glyph encodes three properties of the system: Orientation, uniaxiality (alignment along the direction of orientation), and biaxiality (alignment along a vector orthogonal to the orientation). Thirty users over two studies were asked to identify these three properties for each glyph type under a v...

After total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients often ask when they can resume car driving. This question was the aim of some studies in the past, however no study was found on the possible effects of different surgery techniques on brake response time (BRT). A randomized controlled trial on the effects of two surgery techniques (minimally invasive vs. standard approach) on BRT was designed. In th...

An important aspect of managing performance is managing response time extremes, particularly transactions with longer response times. To effectively manage the extremes requires an understanding of response time distributions. In this paper response time distributions obtained from production are analyzed. The results demonstrate that response times are not normally distributed. Techniques to a...

Response time is a key factor to determine the quality of prehospital emergency medical service. We propose a method to estimate the response times based on a classified road network. The method takes into account different attributes that depend on road type, category, surface and class. Comparison of measured times and calculated values shows that the estimated response times are optimistical...