The growing use of "features" in the design and manufacturing communities is due to the fact that features better capture the functionality or intent associated with a part design. The process planning team at the National Bureau of Standards is using features and their associated functionality to derive process plans from a part model in a semi-automatic fashion. The process planning team beli...

In the era of Big Data, omic-scale technologies, and increasing calls for data sharing, it is generally agreed that the use of community-developed, open data standards is critical. Far less agreed upon is exactly which data standards should be used, the criteria by which one should choose a standard, or even what constitutes a data standard. It is impossible simply to choose a domain and have i...

Conceptual process planning is an activity for designers to evaluate manufacturability and the manufacturing cost in the early design stage for mechanical parts production. Since major manufacturing costs of a product are committed in product specification and design, it is critical to be able to assess manufacturability and cost as early as possible in the design process. At the National Insti...

As for the limitations of algorithms in global path planning of mobile robot at present, this study applies the improved simulated annealing algorithm artificial neural networks to path planning of mobile robot in order to better the weaknesses of great scale of iteration computation and slow convergence, since the best-reserved simulated annealing algorithm was introduced and it was effectivel...

conclusions according to the results, it seems that more planning and implementation of projects is required to strengthen the axes of the joint commission regarding accreditation of hospitals and attraction of medical tourists to these centers, especially foreign tourists. researchers are recommended to pay special attention to the university of medical sciences of two provinces for the establ...

Zhangjiakou regional network belongs to the Jibei power grid in Northern China and locates at the midway of the power transmission corridor from Inner-Mongolia to the rest of Jibei power grid. Zhangjiakou regional network consists of several area networks connected to the main network through 500kV stations. In recent years, renewable energy in rural areas has developed rapidly and electrified ...

nursing manpower plays an important role in care quality and health promotion. so any health care organization without an efficient nursing unit is not expected to survive for a long time. this study was conducted to estimate the number of the necessary nursing manpower for the selected hospitals according to the proposed model by the iran ministry of health.this research is a cross wardal stud...

Smart Emission is a citizen sensor network using low-cost sensors that enables citizens to gather data about environmental quality, like air quality, noise load, vibrations, light intensities and heat stress. This paper introduces the design and development of the data infrastructure for the Smart Emission initiative and discusses challenges for the future. The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)...

Smart Emission is a citizen sensor network using low-cost sensors that enables citizens to gather data about environmental quality, like air quality, noise load, vibrations, light intensities and heat stress. This paper introduces the design and development of the data infrastructure for the Smart Emission initiative and discusses challenges for the future. The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)...

One of the most important components of orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning is the evaluation of the patient's soft tissue profile. The main purpose of this study was to develop soft-tissue cephalometric standards for Turkish men and women and compare them with the cephalometric standards of normal European-American white people. The sample included 96 Turkish adults (48 women, 48 men)...