The technological developments in distributed systems have led to new telerobotic applications, such as virtual laboratories and remote maintenance of complex equipment, built on top of Internet and distributed computing system infrastructures. These applications must satisfy both the general requirements of distributed computing, e.g. location transparency and interoperability, and the domain-...

Injuries involving the head and neck represent a significant proportion of sportsrelated trauma incurred by youth athletes. Approximately 6.5 % of over 2.6 million children ≤ 19 years treated for sport and recreation-related injuries in an emergency department setting between 2001 and 2009 had sustained traumatic brain injuries or concussions [1]. In this chapter, we will review the history of ...

"In an age of electronic banking and online college degrees, why hasn't the rest of the nation gone to voting on touchscreen computers? The reason is simple and resonates with the contentious debate that has yet to be resolved after at least 15 years of wrangling over the issue of electronic voting. No one has yet figured out a straightforward method of ensuring that one of the most revered dem...

In industry, engineers usually design equipment to perform given tasks, while the particular technologies employed for the solution do not matter greatly. In contrast, traditional university courses are related to the training of specific techniques. In order to bridge this gap, a robotics workshop has been introduced into the final year curriculum of the Master course Mechatronics at the Fachh...

The purpose of this study was to examine barriers perceived by teachers when including students with visual impairments in general physical education. Teachers (52 males, 96 females) who had children with visual impairments in their physical education classes were surveyed prior to in-service workshop participation. The most prevalent barriers were professional preparation, equipment, programmi...

Dust explosions always claim lives and cause huge financial losses. Dust explosion risk can be prevented by inherently safer design or mitigated by engineering protective system. Design of explosion prevention and protection needs comprehensive knowledge and data on the process, workshop, equipment, and combustible materials. The knowledge includes standards, expertise of experts, and practical...

An automatic pipette is a very useful equipment for any laboratory carrying out Kahn tests on a large number of sera. A number of devices were tried in a field laboratory which was functioning as a serological laboratory for the CeylonArmy Command during the years 1945 and 1946. A mechanical pipette which can easily be prepared with materials salvaged from a small workshop is described below. T...

Background: Considering the occurrence of medical emergencies in dental practice, and the essential need of acquiring competency in Basic life support (BLS), the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of BLS workshop on the skills of dental students in the cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Methods: In this switching replication experimental study, students in the 5th year of Mashhad d...

1 Research Lab, Department of Modelling and Industrial Computing, Faculty Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. ABSTRACT For the past few years, it has been possible to buy a business application including transaction processing systems for such tasks as accounting, manufacturing, or human resources as a packaged product. Packages to do this collection of w...

We introduce a Bayesian hierarchical statistical model that describes subpopulation-specific pathways of exposure to arsenic. Our model is fitted to data collected as part of the National Human Exposure Assessment Survey (NHEXAS) and builds on the structural-equation-based analysis of the same data by Clayton et al. (Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 2002, 12, 29-43)....