Rotary slanted single wire CTA – a useful tool for 3D flows investigations

The Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool: A useful tool for pain assessment in intensive care units

Pain is a major concern in all intensive care units (ICUs). The proper assessment and management of pain is one of the main goals of patient care in ICUs. Improper evaluation of pain and its over or under treatment can cause significant problems in the process of patient management in ICU. Since most ICU patients are unable to communicate correctly with the ICU team and explain their level of p...

Histogram analysis- a useful tool for tissue characterization in brain CT

Introduction: Pixel value in computed tomography (CT) gives the average linear attenuation coefficient of the scanned material in the path of the x-ray beam, being normalized to that of water. It is known that attenuation coefficient or HU value is a function of the chemical characteristic of the material and of the x-ray energy. The CT image shows the HU value by a shade of gr...

Experimental Investigations on Rotary Vane Compressors

Auto-Gopher - a wire-line rotary-hammer ultrasonic drill

Developing technologies that would enable NASA to sample rock, soil, and ice by coring, drilling or abrading at a significant depth is of great importance for a large number of in-situ exploration missions as well as for earth applications. Proven techniques to sample Mars subsurface will be critical for future NASA astrobiology missions that will search for records of past and present life on ...

Automatic Satrep - a Useful Tool for Forecasters

The SATREP (Satellite Report) is a detailed description of the IR and WV image in terms of conceptual models, making use of ECMWF model fields and of surface weather reports. It is meanwhile produced four times a day, at ZAMG during the day (06 and 12 UTC), at FMI in the evening (18 UTC) and at KNMI in the nightshift (00 UTC). It is desirable to have the SATREP in higher temporal frequency whic...