The Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) are widely used for the three-dimensional measurements of workpieces. For solving the limits and the drawbacks of the traditional CMMs, we have started developing nano-CMM that measures three dimensional parts in nanometer resolution. In this article, we evaluate the repeatability and the straightness of stages of nano-CMM.

Coordinate measurement machine (CMM) probing techniques can involve direct mechanical contact (e.g., tactile probing) or diverse non-contact principles (e.g., laser line scan probing). For some applications, contact methods are not capable of measuring fast enough to ensure 100% quality controlled parts. A laser line scanning probe uses a laser triangulation-based method to acquire 3D measureme...

Of the eight desirable attributes of a standardized method given in KSA-SM-3, three are the focus of this article: resemblance of the untreated control data, repeatability of the response of interest across multiple tests, and reproducibility of the response across multiple laboratories. These attributes can be assessed by considering three random effects on the response: among-carrier differen...

Of the eight desirable attributes of a standardized method given in KSA-SM-3, three are the focus of this article: resemblance of the untreated control data, repeatability of the response of interest across multiple tests, and reproducibility of the response across multiple laboratories. These attributes can be assessed by considering three random effects on the response: among-carrier differen...

PURPOSE To evaluate monoexponential, stretched exponential, kurtosis, and biexponential models for diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) of normal prostate and prostate cancer (PCa), using b-values up to 2000 s/mm(2) , in terms of fitting quality and repeatability. METHODS Eight healthy volunteers and 16 PCa patients underwent a total of four repeated 3T DWI examinations using 16 and 12 b-values, ...

Genetic parameters for test-day milk flow (TDMF) of 2175 first lactations of Holstein cows were estimated using multiple-trait and repeatability models. The models included the direct additive genetic effect as a random effect and contemporary group (defined as the year and month of test) and age of cow at calving (linear and quadratic effect) as fixed effects. For the repeatability model, in a...

in this research genetic and phenotypic parameters were estimated using linear and threshold models, for reproductive traits, data from 6 large industrial dairy herd of east azerbaijan province collected by agriculture jihad organization during 10 years (2001-2010). best linear unbiased predictions of traits breeding values were estimated using restricted maximum likelihood method by wombat sof...

Repeatability of traditional kinematic and kinetic models is affected by the ability to accurately locate anatomical landmarks (ALs) to define joint centres and anatomical coordinate systems. Numerical methods that define joint centres and axes of rotation independent of ALs may also improve the repeatability of kinematic and kinetic data. The purpose of this paper was to compare the repeatabil...

a data file containing 607662 (317608) milk (open days) records belonging 294417 (177838) holstein cows that were calved from 1983 to 2008 was used. the bivariate repeatability model was used for data analyzing so that herd, calving year, calving month, days in milk (only for milk trait) and calving age for each parity, were assumed as fixed effects and additive genetics and permanent environme...

Milk yield records from 1 to 5 lactations of Iranian Holstein cows were analyzed using repeatability and a number of multivariate models that varied in additive genetic variance structure. A total of313,006 milk yield records were used. The records were obtained from 116,531 cows born between 2001 and 2005. The animals originated from 2,355 sires and 91,212 dams. A multivariate model with heter...