The use of durable medical equipment in the home, while not a recent development, was formally recognized by the Congress with the passage of the original Medicare legislation. Since that time the statute has been amended to provide for a more workable, economical, and desirable interface among the administrative, supplier, and user communities. To assist in achieving this end, a research proje...

This thesis studies the reliability of telecommunications equipment, its components, and the systems made using those components. Special attention is paid to creating stronger links between the reliability analyses performed at different hierarchy levels. The thesis starts with a temperature derating study. It is found out that the generic handbook based procedures may not always be very attra...

Fujitsu has developed outdoor Long Term Evolution (LTE) infrastructure equipment (eNodeB) based on the specifications in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Thanks to the use of highly efficient and highly integrated devices, flexible software configuration technology and simple hardware architecture, this LTE infrastructure equipment is small, lightweight and has a low power consump...

Current control strategies for avian influenza virus, exotic Newcastle disease, and other highly contagious poultry diseases include surveillance, quarantine, depopulation, disposal, and decontamination. Skid steer loaders and other mobile equipment are extensively used during depopulation and disposal. Movement of contaminated equipment has been implicated in the spread of disease in previous ...

A simple mathematical model has been developed to identify and prioritize medical equipment in need of replacement. The model contains a total of ten attributes addressing four primary replacement issues: equipment service and support; equipment function; cost benefits; and clinical efficacy. Sensitivity to incomplete or subjective data is significantly reduced through the use of a "yes-no" (0,...

The degree of comfort of personal protective equipment (PPE) was investigated in an automobile encapsulating plant. Up to 96.2% of employees used one or a combination of PPE. Only 8% of the workers felt their respirators were comfortable, 30% tolerated their respirators, and 62% rated them as uncomfortable. The percentage of employees who rated their PPE (other than a respirator) as comfortable...

introduction: nowadays, more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals. this way, medical electrical equipment is being employed in a wide variety of fields in medical sciences with different physiological effects and measurements. hospitals and medical centers must ensure that their critical medical devices are safe, accurate, reliable and operational at the requ...

Vibration from equipment mounted on the telescope and in summit support buildings has been a source of performance degradation at existing astronomical observatories, particularly for adaptive optics performance. Rather than relying only on best practices to minimize vibration, we present here a vibration budget that specifies allowable force levels from each source of vibration in the observat...

H IST O R Y O F D E V E L O PM E N T An opportunity to discuss the development of any product must include a bit of history so that having observed where we have been one may have a clearer perspective of where we are and may be going. This discussion will try to capture all of these facets. Construction projects of one type or another date back to times before recorded history. M an’s hands we...