Abstract The telecommunication and radioelectronic systems with redundancy are widely used in different branches of human activity. To provide the necessary reliability level equipment, operation system is utilized. That contains intended use, maintenance, repair, technical condition monitoring, others. damages, faults failures usually observed during lifecycle systems. They can lead to deterio...

Neisseria species are identified in most diagnostic microbiology laboratories by using carbohydrate degradation methods. Conventional methods require 24 to 48 h of incubation for completion of the test (15). A number of rapid methods which employ various agar bases, growth factors, sugar concentrations, agar concentrations, inoculum sizes, filter paper disks, radiometry, gas chromatography, spe...

This paper deals with the sequential diagnosis approach and the associated test sequencing problem (i.e. the problem of generating the sequence of tests required to reach a diagnostic conclusion at minimum cost). The traditional test sequencing problem is generalized here to include asymmetrical and multi-valued tests. We present the sequential diagnosis tool (SDT) that enables the user to gene...

Expert systems are used for evaluating the actual state and future behavior of insulating systems of high voltage electrical machines and equipment. Several rule-based expert systems have been developed in cooperation with top diagnostic workplaces in the Czech Republic for this purpose. The IZOLEX expert system evaluates diagnostic measurement data from commonly used off-line diagnostic method...

Pathology undergoes presently changes due to new developments in diagnostic opportunities and cost saving efforts in health care. Out of the wide field of telepathology the paper selects three prototype applications: telepathology in teleeducation, expert advice for preselected details of a slide and finally telepathology for remote diagnosis. The most challenging field for remote diagnosis is ...

The ability to reconfigure a ship's engineering plant in response to changing mission or equipment conditions can dramatically increase a ship's capability and survivability. We describe the agent-based, distributed diagnostic aspects of a distributed control architecture that integrates multiple ship systems and provides resourceand diagnostic-driven reconfiguration at multiple system levels, ...

Maintaining quality, competitiveness and innovation in global health technology is a constant challenge for manufacturers, while affordability, access and equity are challenges for governments and international agencies. In this paper we discuss these issues with reference to rapid diagnostic tests for malaria. Strategies to control and eliminate malaria depend on early and accurate diagnosis. ...

Herein we show the development of a minimally instrumented paper-based molecular diagnostic for point of care detection of sexually transmitted infections caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. This new diagnostic platform incorporates cell lysis, isothermal nucleic acid amplification, and lateral flow visual detection using only a pressure source and heat block, eliminating the need for expensive la...

Introduction: Extensive use of diagnostic radiology is the largest contributor to total population radiation doses. Thus, appropriate equipment and safe practice are necessary for good-quality images with optimal doses. This study aimed to perform quality control (QC) audit for radiography and fluoroscopy devices owned by private sector in Syria (2005-2013) to verify compliance of performance o...

introduction: medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure for diagnosing and treating pleural diseases. despite its proven role in diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, it is infrequently used, which could be because of cost of equipment and lack of training. we analyzed our initial 3 years record of thoracoscopy at himalayan institute of medical sciences, a tertiary care center in hi...