Hot forging of an Fe-Ni-Co alloy used for aeronautical purposes has been modeled using the commercial software ABAQUSTM/Explicit in order to obtain all the mechanical and thermal information to proceed with piercing and ring rolling. The material used is a 909 Incoloy type super alloy and it is used for the energy generation industry. Information of the constitutive behaviour of the alloy was i...

MobiHealth and HealthService24 are two major EU projects targeting the development and validation, with extensive medical trials, of innovative systems and services for mobile health care. Biosignals are measured by sensor devices connected to a wireless Body Area Network. These signals are transmitted reliably and securely over public wireless networks (e.g. GPRS, UMTS) to a remote healthcare ...

Software free trial is a common practice that has both positive and negative effects. On the one hand, it helps firms to exploit the positive network externalities by building up the total user base; on the other hand, it cannibalizes partial demand for the commercial software. The objective of my dissertation is to determine the conditions under which the firms should introduce the free trial ...

A strategy to improve the performance of current commercial industrial robots is presented in this paper. This strategy involves cooperation of two robotic manipulators: the robotic controlled impedance device (RCID) and a commercial industrial robot. The RCID is a small six degrees-of-freedom (DOF) high bandwidth force–impedance controlled parallel manipulator, developed at the School of Engin...

according to research, over seventy percent of change efforts have been failed to achieve the expected goals. there are many reasons for the failure of change implementation, however, at the strategic and macro level, the non-alignment between business strategy and change variations may lead to the failure of change efforts. in this paper, the alignment between business strategy and change vari...

Karstification is adopted to develop a new synthetic strategy for single-crystalline WO(3) octahedra bound with {111} facets from irregular-shaped commercial WO(3) particles.

OBJECTIVES To describe the characteristics of randomised controlled trials supported by the main non-commercial sources of funding in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 2002. DESIGN Descriptive survey. SETTING Randomised controlled trials funded by the Medical Research Council, NHS research and development programme, Department of Health, Chief Scientist Office in Scotland, and medical res...