The nature of electro-optical equipment in various industries and the pursuit of the goal of reducing costs demand high reliability on the part of electro-optical systems. In this respect, reliability improvement could be addressed through a reliability allocation problem. Subsystem reliability must be increased such that the requirements as well as defined requisite functions are ensured in ac...

The use of products extracted from plants for medicinal purposes can be traced to the beginnings of civilization and up until the end of the nineteenth century natural products were the principal source of medicines. Since then their relative importance has oscillated according to the strategies of large pharmaceutical companies. Now that these strategies are changing, there are new opportuniti...

Waugh's syndrome (WS) is the rare association of intussusception and intestinal malrotation. We present two such cases in a 5-month-old infant and a 9-year-old girl. Both patients presented with intussusception and were diagnosed with malrotation during workup and surgical exploration. We conclude that the possibility of intestinal malrotation must be taken into consideration while managing chi...

“justice” is a fine adjective to which various nouns may be attributed. these nouns can be divided into three universal categories: individual person, social situation, and society. each of these nouns has a particular characteristic feature based on which one may not use any given definition for justice. the purpose of this essay is to argue that taking the noun of justice into consideration i...

There are many features to take into consideration when designing servoed vision systems especially when redundant degrees-of-freedom (DOF) are present. Motion platforms mounted with camera systems usually have multiple joints. Example platforms include rovers, booms, gantries, aircrafts and submersibles. Teleoperating such systems to track moving objects is particularly challenging. The operat...