Outdoor 24-kV power transmission insulators include two main pieces, namely, the shed and core. In this study, these pieces were manufactured separately by roll/hot pressing hand lay-up methods, respectively. Both core formed from polymer-based composites due to their low weight, high strength-to-weight ratio, higher moisture pollution resistance compared those of ceramic glass sheds. The sheds...

[Purpose] To investigate the effects of two common asymmetric sitting positions on spinal balance. [Subjects and Methods] Thirty-seven healthy subjects in their twenties were enrolled and randomly divided into two groups. Asymmetric positions of resting the chin on a hand and crossing the legs were performed by each group for 1 hour. After 1 hour, the subjects lay in the supine position again a...

Safecast is a volunteered geographic information (VGI) project where the lay public uses hand-held sensors to collect radiation measurements that are then made freely available under the Creative Commons CC0 license. However, Safecast data fidelity is uncertain given the sensor kits are hand assembled with various levels of technical proficiency, and the sensors may not be properly deployed. Ou...

We describe two empirical studies of how professionals explain documents to lay clients who have varying levels of knowledge about the domain under discussion. We find that hand gestures, and in particular deictic gestures by the professional at various parts of the document play a major role in explanations of documents with clients in face-to-face settings. We describe a preliminary computati...

PLAIN ENGLISH SUMMARY There is a consensus that patients and the public should be involved in research in a meaningful way. To date, lay people have been mostly involved in developing research ideas and commenting on patient information but not as much in actual data collection. We have had firsthand experience with lay people helping to conduct a study on how patients in hospital are involved ...

The aim of this chapter is to draw links between (1) No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems which, interpreted inversely, lay the foundation of how to design search heuristics that exploit prior knowledge about the function, (2) Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP) and their approach to the problem of sequentially and optimally choosing search points, and (3) the use of Gaussian Process...

In the present study EP142-C510-50 woven carbon fiber composite was investigated from structural/ mechanical point of view aiming manufacturing parts for aeronautical industry. The composites were obtained by hand lay-up process. Prior to mechanical tests, the cure reaction results of composite resins specimens were analyzed by using DSC technique. The EP142 epoxy matrix was cured/polymerized a...

The multiplicity of forms of health-related knowledge, including biomedical knowledge, lay knowledge and critical constructionist knowledge, raises challenges for health researchers. On one hand, there is a demand for a pluralist acceptance of the variety of health-related knowledge. On the other, the need to improve health calls for action, and thus for choices between opposing forms of knowle...

OBJECTIVE Writing scientific manuscripts can be unnecessarily daunting, if not paralyzing. This paralysis is usually the result of one of two reasons: either researchers do not know how to start, or they do not know what to put where. However, most radiology manuscripts follow a definable blueprint. In this article, I attempt to lay out the paragraph-by-paragraph development of a typical radiol...