The system of asylum seeker detention in Australia is one in which those seeking refuge are stripped of many of their rights, including the right to health. This presents serious ethical problems for healthcare providers working within this system. In this article we describe asylum seeker detention and analyse the role of nurses. We discuss how far an "ethics of care" and witnessing the suffer...

This paper provides a management overview of a new joint Navy/Army millimeter wave (MMW) seeker technology development initiative. The goal of the program is to provide advanced seeker components for endoatmospheric interceptors for theater and strategic missile defense. The technologies are driven by requirements for low weight/volume interceptors, high interceptor and target velocities and a ...

The tomographic scanning (TOSCA) imaging seeker concept is presented. The system is based on conical scan reticle seeker optics modified with an eccentrically rotating circular aperture. After signal preprocessing, an image is extracted using tomography reconstruction techniques. Simulation results are provided to show the reconstruction quality. The concept, using a single pixel and a simple r...

This paper presents a seeker algorithm for solving the multi-objective reactive power dispatch problem. Swarm intelligence algorithms have been productively applied to hard optimization problems. Seeker optimization algorithm is one of the latest members of that class of metaheuristics and the primary type of this algorithm was less successful with multimodal functions. We propose hybridization...

In view of the issue of rapid attitude maneuver control of agile satellite, this paper presents an attitude-tracking control algorithm with path planning based on the improved genetic algorithm, adaptive backstepping control as well as sliding mode control. The satellite applies double gimbal control moment gyro as actuator and is subjected to the external disturbance and uncertain inertia prop...

BACKGROUND The International Society of Biomechanics has proposed a standardization recommendation for motion recordings of the upper extremity defining the set of bony landmarks, local coordinate systems and joint coordinate systems. The aim of our study was to verify the clinical interpretation of the proposed rotation sequence for the glenohumeral joint and to compare it with other sequences...

Missile pose estimation in terminal guidance refers to the technique of estimating missile position and attitude by matching seeker images with pre stored reference images during the terminal phase of missile flight. This paper presents a method for estimating the position and orientation of the missile with respect to a known object using point correspondences between seeker and reference imag...