A new approach to modelling human systems as reusable components of manufacturing workplaces is described. Graphical and computer executable models of people competences and behaviours are created which are qualitatively and quantitatively matched to equivalent models of process networks, decomposed into roles and dependencies between roles. To enable model creation and reuse, coherent sets of ...

The purpose of the present investigation was to compare the performance of the acoustic otoscope/DPU-411 printer and acoustic immittance with otoscopic examinations by a physician for the detection of middle ear effusion (MEE). Three hundred and two patients (11 months to 69 years) were evaluated with the acoustic otoscope, acoustic immittance, and otoscopic examinations. The patients were divi...

When plasmid DNA duplexes carrying the regular homopurine-homopyrimidine inserts (dGA)n, (dTC)n and (dG)n, (dC)n are preincubated with homologous labeled oligo(dPy) ((dTC)n and (dC)n respectively) at acid pH, the label co-electrophoreses with the duplex DNA. Thus, a very strong complex is formed. Complementary oligo(dPu) does not form a complex under these conditions. No binding is observed for...

1 Bioengineering Science Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K. Division of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK Laboratoire de Modélisation Mathématiques et Simulation Numérique, Faculté des Sciences, Université Badji-Mokhtar, BP 12, 23000 Annaba, Algeria Depar...

Cholesky factorization is the computationally most expensive step in numerically solving positive definite systems. Due to inherently recursive computation process and associated floating point division and square root operations in Cholesky factorization, it is very difficult to obtain acceleration by exploiting parallelism on FPGA’s. To solve this problem, approach suggests iterative architec...

Six-Sigma has some measures which measure performance characteristics related to a process. In most of the traditional methods, exact estimation is used to assess these measures and to utilize them in practice. In this paper, to estimate some of these measures, including Defects per Million Opportunities (DPMO), Defects per Opportunity (DPO), Defects per unit (DPU) and Yield, a new algorithm ba...

INTRODUCTION Proteinuria (PTU) is an important marker for the development and progression of renal disease, cardiovascular disease and death, but there is limited information about the prevalence and factors associated with confirmed PTU in predominantly white European HIV+ persons, especially in those with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of 60 mL/min/1.73 m(2). PATIENTS AND ME...

Tingginya pertumbuhan penduduk didaerah perkotaan memicu peningkatan aktivitas, salah satunya dalam bidang transportasi, semakin bertambahnya meningkatkan mobilitas dengan demikian keberadaan sarana dan prasarana serta kualitasnya akan menjadi sebuah kebutuhan. Dalam era modern seperti sekarang ini banyak moda transportasi yang berkembang bermunculan, angkutan sewa khusus yaitu grab car. Grab c...