A safety harness system is essential to ensure participant safety in experiments at the threshold of balance recovery where avoiding a fall is not always possible. The purpose of this study was to propose a method to determine the maximum allowable force on a safety harness cable to discriminate a successful from a failed balance recovery. Data from 12 younger adults, who participated in experi...

This paper considers a scheduling problem for a single burn-in oven in the semiconductor manufacturing industry where the oven is a batch processing machine with restricted capacity. The batch processing time is set by the longest processing time among those of all the jobs contained in the batch. All jobs are assumed to have the same due date. The objective is to minimize the sum of the absolu...

An efficient optimization algorithm is proposed for designing causal stable perfect-reconstruction two-channel infinite impulse response filter banks originally introduced by Basu, Chiang, and Choi. The problem is stated as a constrained optimization problem where the maximum of the stopband energies of the analysis filters is minimized subject to the given constraints. First, the maximum allow...

A priority queue, a container data structure equipped with the operations insert and delete-minimum, can re-order its input in various ways, depending both on the input and on the sequence of operations used. If a given input σ can produce a particular output τ then (σ, τ) is said to be an allowable pair. It is shown that allowable pairs on a fixed multiset are in one-to-one correspondence with...

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Recent work on liquid-surface-protected plasma facing components has resulted in the establishment of operating windows for candidate liquids, as well as limits on the maximum allowable liquid surface temperature in order to limit plasma impurities from liquid evaporation. In this study, an additional constraint on the maximum allowable surface temperature gradient (i.e., heat flux gradient) ha...

in this study, a hierarchical hub location problem by considering different modes of transportation and maximum allowed delay is investigated. this study is done on iran’s express postal service with 2 days maximum delay in delivery considering ground and airport hubs. the problem is of the type of location and single allocation for collection, transfer and distribution of the shipments. all th...

In this paper the maximum current carrying capability of ACAs flip chip joint is investigated based on two failure mechanisms: (1) degradation of the interface between gold stud bumps and aluminum pads; and (2) ACA swelling between chips and substrates under high current stress. For the determination of the maximum allowable current, bias stressing was applied to ACAs flip chip joint. The curre...