The race for engine consumption and pollutant emission reduction requires engines development time reduction and optimisation. These problems bring engine test bed to become measuring systems more and more powerful and versatile. This test bed functionalities enrichment drives automation system evolutions. One of these is the integration of real time simulation execution in MORPHEE 2 which make...

the control of fluidized-bed operations processes is still one of the major areas of research due to the complexity of the process and the inherent nonlinearity and varying dynamics involved in its operation. there are varieties of problems in chemical engineering that can be formulated as nonlinear programming (nlps). the quality of the developed solution significantly affects the performance ...

The effects of a 37-day period of bed rest on myosin heavy chain (MHC) expression on both mRNA and protein level in human skeletal muscle fibers were studied. Muscle biopsies from vastus lateralis muscle were obtained from seven healthy young male subjects before and after the bed-rest period. Combined in situ hybridization, immunocytochemistry, and ATPase histochemistry analysis of serial sect...

In this paper we present Lbs, a load-management-system for network based concurrent computing. The system is built on Pt-Pvm, a library based on the PVM system. Pt-Pvm provides message passing and process management facilities at thread and process level for a cluster of workstations running the UNIX operating system. The presented system is realized as an open library which can be easily used ...

Moving patients or other care activities with manual patient handling is characterized by high mechanical load on the lumbar spine of healthcare workers (HCWs). During the patient transfer activity, the caregivers exert lifting, pulling, and pushing forces varying over time with respect to amplitude and direction. Furthermore, the caregivers distinctly change their posture and frequently obtain...

Although regional climates throughout much of the world appear to have become more arid in late Cenozoic time, sedimentation rates, and therefore presumably erosion rates, have increased. For sustained erosion of elevated terrain, at least where glaciers are not the major erosive agent, rivers must incise. Therefore bed-load transport by rivers should be a rate-limiting process in erosion. Theo...