EMPRESS: A European Project to Enhance Process Control Through Improved Temperature Measurement

A collaborative project to enhance efficiency through dressing change practice.

OBJECTIVE A collaborative project between Hull CHCP and Smith and Nephew wound management, which sought to enhance practice efficiency, specifically in relation to the optimisation of dressing change frequency. The project involved the use of a new foam dressing (Allevyn Life, Smith & Nephew, Hull) designed to manage wound exudate more effectively, be more acceptable to patients by masking stai...

Can Male Fertility Be Improved Prior to Assisted Reproduction through The Control of Uncommonly Considered Factors?

EMPReSS: European Mouse Phenotyping Resource for Standardized Screens

UNLABELLED Standardized phenotyping protocols are essential for the characterization of phenotypes so that results are comparable between different laboratories and phenotypic data can be related to ontological descriptions in an automated manner. We describe a web-based resource for the visualization, searching and downloading of standard operating procedures and other documents, the European ...

Improved Optimization Process for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of PMSM

Model-based predictive control (MPC) is one of the most efficient techniques that is widely used in industrial applications. In such controllers, increasing the prediction horizon results in better selection of the optimal control signal sequence. On the other hand, increasing the prediction horizon increase the computational time of the optimization process which make it impossible to be imple...

Improved Infrared Temperature Measurement of RF Devices

The paper describes the infrared (IR) thermal measurement facility at De Montfort University and the use of the facility to make IR temperature measurements on RF devices. Some of the limitations with conventional IR measurements will be described; including effects related to the low emissivity and optical transparency of materials. A novel method for improving the accuracy of IR temperature m...