We present the design and analysis of a MEMS variable capacitor coupled to thermal actuators. The variable capacitor is composed by two main components: 1) the capacitor built by two squared plates, which one plate is mechanically fixed to the substrate and the other is a moving plate having mechanical suspensions (springs) connected from each corner of it to the substrate, and 2) a set of ther...

T he present paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on the interaction between the lending rates, deposit rates and money market rates through the process of retail bank interest rate pass-through in the countries of the Euro area. Among our findings is the heterogeneity of bank rate adjustments across sectors, loans and deposits. That was mainly marked during the pre-...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as stress-induced is a temporary left ventricular dysfunction caused by catecholamine surge under severe stress. It's characterized chest pain, non-specific ECG changes, and apical ballooning observed during catheterization. We present case of 59-year-old postmenopausal female with past medical history asthma who arrived at the ED complaining pain following ...

Control theory is a relatively new field in engineering when compared with core topics, such as statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, etc. Early examples of control systems were developed actually before the science was fully understood. For example the fly-ball governor developed by James Watt to control overspeed of his steam engine was developed out of necessity, long before the science of cont...

A symmetry position/force hybrid control framework for cooperative object transportation tasks with multiple humanoid robots is proposed in this paper. In a leader-follower type cooperation, follower robots plan their biped gaits based on the forces generated at their hands after a leader robot moves. Therefore, if the leader robot moves fast (rapidly pulls or pushes the carried object), some o...

In some decision-making environments, successful solutions are common. If the evaluation of candidate solutions is noisy, however, the challenge is knowing when a “good enough” answer has been found. We formalize this problem as an infinite-armed bandit and provide upper and lower bounds on the number of evaluations or “pulls” needed to identify a solution whose evaluation exceeds a given thres...

  Background: Electrical injury is daily compromise of our life and upper and lower extremities   are common sites of injury .   Case Presentation: A 23 years old man who had suffered high voltage electrical injury referred   to our center. He had severe left upper extremity burn and suffered from head and thoracic   injuries due to falling down from high altitude.   Treatment: Fasciotomy of th...

The Internet has broken down the barriers that exist between people and information, effectively democratizing access to human knowledge. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the world of news. According to a recent survey news browsing and searching is one of the most important internet activity. The huge amount of news available on line reflects the users need for a plurality of information ...