This paper presents a new robot-based system to assist orthopaedic surgeons in performing distal intramedullary locking in femoral and tibial fracture reduction. The system consists of a miniature bone-mounted robot fitted with a drill guide that provides mechanical guidance for manual drilling of the distal screws’ pilot holes. The drill guide and the nail’s distal locking holes axes are autom...

In the present work, two different types of artificial neural network (ANN) architectures viz. back propagation neural network (BPNN) and radial basis function network (RBFN) have been used in an attempt to predict flank wear in drills. Flank wear in drill depends upon speed, feed rate, drill diameter and hence these parameters along with other derived parameters such as thrust force, torque an...

In automation flexible manufacturing systems, tool wear detection during the cutting process is one of the most important considerations. This study presents an intelligent system for online tool condition monitoring in drilling process .In this paper, analytical and empirical models have been used to predict the thrust and cutting forces on the lip and chisel edges of a new drill. Also an empi...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this article was to conduct a review of the types of training offered to people with schizophrenia in order to help them develop strategies to cope with or compensate for neurocognitive or sociocognitive deficits. METHODS We conducted a search of the literature using keywords such as "schizophrenia", "training", and "cognition" with the most popular databases of peer...

On the UK Continental Shelf, up to 80,000 tonnes wet weight of oily drill cuttings are produced annually. These are heterogeneous wastes generated from the petroleum drilling industry, composed of significant percentages of hydrocarbons, heavy metals and chlorides. Since 1992, the discharge of drill cuttings containing more than 1% oil-on-cuttings has been prohibited. Moreover, the extensive in...

using this instrument since a high-speed drill is unable to create tapping motion. To examine the convenience of a 1-step drill-tap, we measured the amount of time required for fixing 10 screws. In doing so, we recorded that a conventional 3-step and the new 2-step drills required 189 and 112 seconds, respectively. Although the total operative time did not change extensively, the use of this in...

Perforation in internal upset transition zone is one of the main failure styles for drill pipes. Due to the flow channel specificity of upset transition zone, in this paper, drill pipe failure analysis from the point of flow erosion was put forward. Flow field of drilling fluid in the internal upset transition zone of U127 mm API IEU S135 drill pipe under various conditions were obtained using ...

The dental burr rotated by an electric drill is the quickest, safest, and most precise form of treatment for corneal rust rings. It enables complete removal of the corneal rust at a single treatment and leaves a smooth crater that is no larger than the original rust ring. Pain relief is more rapid after electric drill removal; this is probably related to the complete removal of the rust. Epithe...

This study describes an informatics effort to track subjects through a National Pharmaceutical Stockpile (NPS) distribution drill. The drill took place in Seattle on 1/24/2002. Washington and the State Department of Health are among the first in the nation to stage a NPS drill testing the distribution of medications to mock patients, thereby testing the treatment capacity of the plan given a po...