Objectives: Phlebotomy and venous cannulation are common, technically challenging and potentially distressing procedures in pediatrics. The aim of this pilot study was to assess whether a novel medical equipment holder could be a useful adjunct for venipuncture in children. Methods: Doctors and nurses at a district general hospital were asked to analyze the portable medical equipment holder and...

Spectrum licensing enables quality of service guarantees, but often leads to inefficient use of spectrum. Unlicensed spectrum promotes efficiency through sharing, but quality of service cannot be guaranteed, which is a serious problem for some applications. Such applications may be better served by a real-time secondary market, where secondary users ask the license-holder for temporary access t...

OBJECTIVE Accurate and reproducible coil positioning is important for headache research using transcranial magnetic stimulation protocols. We aimed to design a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil holder and demonstrate reliability of test-retest coil positioning. METHODS A coil holder was developed and manufactured according to three principles of stability, durability, and three-dimension...

By formulating negotiations about licensing payments as cooperative games without side payments, we investigate stable bargaining outcomes in licensing a cost-reducing technology of an external patent holder to oligopolistic firms producing a homogeneous product under two licensing policies: fee and royalty. The final bargaining outcome in fee licensing is uniquely determined, because the NTU b...

Profitability means a company’s ability to earn return on investment through its business activities. It shows how the resources are efficiently utilised achieve goal of earning profits. Profits essential for organisation make dividend payments shareholders as well retain part profits reserves overcome unforeseen circumstances in near future. The attempt is made this study know profitability po...

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Pioneer Award (DP1OD003874). Java Code for the model is available from the authors upon request.. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not. doi: bioRxiv preprint first posted online Apr. 24, 2014;. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It is m...

A new method for increasing LDR in deep drawing is application of anti-lock braking system (ABS) on blank holder. In this method, instead of applying a constant force on blank and control the metal flow, the ABS system holds and releases the blank several times (20 to 50 times) which results increasing LDR. This study investigates the effect of different parameters of ABS on improving the condi...

A new method for increasing LDR in deep drawing is application of anti-lock braking system (ABS) on blank holder. In this method, instead of applying a constant force on blank and control the metal flow, the ABS system holds and releases the blank several times (20 to 50 times) which results increasing LDR. This study investigates the effect of different parameters of ABS on improving the condi...

We describe an opinion analysis system developed for a Multilingual Opinion Analysis Task at NTCIR8. Given a topic and relevant newspaper articles, our system determines whether a sentence in the articles has an opinion. If so, we then extract the holder of the opinion. In the opinion judgment task, we constructed a phrase-level opinion expression extractor from sentence-level annotated corpus....