All mechanical designs pass through a series of formal and informal redesign steps, involving the analysis of func-tionality, manufacturability, cost and other life-cycle factors. The speed and eecacy of these steps has a major innuence on the lead time of the product from conceptualization to launching. In this paper we propose a methodology for automatically generating redesign suggestions fo...

The paper presents the development of a method that determines building material and surface properties using relative simple and low-budget experiments, with the following conditions: (I) Constrained: the material is located in building constructions and only non destructive measurements are allowed. (II) Unconstrained: the material if is freely available for optimal testing. The latter compre...

Human observations during behavioral studies are expensive, time-consuming, and error prone. For this reason, automatization of experiments is highly desirable, as it reduces the risk of human errors and workload. The robotic system we developed is simple and cheap to build and handles feeding and data collection automatically. The system was built using mostly off-the-shelf components and has ...

This document describes the hardware design of a tactile shear force display. The design parameters have been chosen by inquiries of psychophysical requirements and available actuator technologies. Furthermore the hardware setup of the prototype is described. This display will be used to investigate the perceptual effects of shear force to the human finger pulp.

There are at least two different techniques for preparing teeth prior to bonded porcelain restorations. The first involves using depth cutters guided by the existing tooth structure. A more recently developed approach integrates an additive wax-up that represents the final volume of the teeth, with indices used to guide the preparation design. This article illustrates in detail a clinical case ...

We propose drug screening designs based on a Bayesian decision theoretic approach, motivated by screening designs for phase II studies. The setup is as follows. At any point in time there are several treatments that may potentially be useful to fight some disease. For each treatment we wish to performa a small-scale study, typically phase II, to establish whether it’s promising enough to deserv...

Experimental techniques employed in the present work for the measurement of density, ultrasonic velocity, viscosity and working principle of ultrasonic interferometer have been discussed in this paper. In addition to that, the present paper also includes a brief discussion on experimental setup, different parts, procedure of ultrasonic interferometer, and various thermodynamic parameters which ...

Molecular communication is a new communication paradigm. It uses molecules as a communication medium and allows nanomachines to communicate over a short distance. This paper describes a design of a molecular communication system using vesicles. In the design, vesicles encapsulate molecules and act as a communication interface between senders and a propagation system and also between the propaga...

Selecting and adopting the appropriate assessment method for conducting subjective quality assessments is a challenging task. The method decides whether the assessment is successful in delivering the correct answers to previously set up hypotheses. Therefore, in this paper we provide recommendations on test methods used in the domain of Sensory Experience. The proposed test methods comprise sin...

this  article  provides  an  overview  on  preparation,  design,  crystal structure  and  properties  of  some  metal-organic  frameworks  of carboxylate coordination polymers mixed with pyridine-functionality linkers  prepared  in  our  laboratory.  the  article  covers  coordination polymers  in  two-  and  three-dimensional  supramolecular architectures. the reported coordination polymers ex...