Background & aim: Warm compression is an effective method preferred in relieving pain. It enables procedures to be completed in a shorter time, and with less pain due to increasing blood flow in the area. This study aimed to investigate the effects of warm compress applied before heel lance on the procedure time, level of pain, and comfort level of healthy term newborn...

Nonlinear constrained optimization algorithms are widely utilized in artifact design. Certain algorithms also lend themselves well to design of experiments (DOE). Adaptive design refers to experimental design where determining where to sample next is influenced by information from previous experiments. We present a constrained optimization algorithm known as superEGO (a variant of the EGO algor...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is a trans-diagnostic construct involved in anxiety and related disorders. Research focused on cross-sectional reporting, manipulating attitudes toward objective and impersonal events or on treatments designed to reduce IU in clinical populations. The current paper presents an experimental procedure for laboratory manipulations of IU and...

The autonomous parameter estimation of a manip-ulator is considered with respect to both dynamic and joint sensor properties. Using methods based on adap-tive control, a new formulation is introduced such that bench calibration of the robot joint sensors and actu-ators is no longer necessary. This method is unique because estimation is done with respect to invariant forces due to gravity loadin...

High performance, cast aluminum automotive wheels are increasingly being incrementally formed via flow forming/metal spinning at elevated temperatures to improve material properties. With a wide array of processing parameters which can affect both the shape attained and resulting material properties, this type of processing is notoriously difficult to commission. A simplified, light-duty versio...

Last August, 51-year-old multiple sclerosis (MS) patient Holly Shean was flying home to Arizona after undergoing an experimental surgical endovascular procedure at Stanford School of Medicine, during which two self-regulating stents were inserted to open a ste-nosis in her right jugular vein. Her surgeon believed the stents could restore normal blood flow from the brain and alleviate some of he...

Large scatter in published experimental data has been observed with respect to classical theory. Recent data have confirmed that liquid, fully-developed, laminar flow in smooth microchannels of various cross-section is governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. However, when the dimensions of the channels are comparable with the wall roughness, surface effects become significant, as shown experim...