A facility wide security system cannot be tested without causing disruption or creating vulnerabilities within the system. To overcome this issue, individual components or equipment may be evaluated to a priori performance standard. The two common approaches to security equipment evaluations are vulnerability attacks and laboratory testing. Laboratory testing of security equipment can reduce th...

The program responds to the mandate of the Justice System Improvement Act of 1979, which created NIJ and directed it to encourage research and development to improve the criminal justice system and to disseminate the results to Federal, State, and local agencies. The Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program is an applied research effort that determines the technological nee...

The program responds to the mandate of the Justice System Improvement Act of 1979, which created NIJ and directed it to encourage research and development to improve the criminal justice system and to disseminate the results to Federal, State, and local agencies. The Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program is an applied research effort that determines the technological nee...

The Non-Intrusive Load Monitor (NILM) measures equipment performance by measuring and analyzing the source power to the equipment at a single point in the electrical system. Previous studies have proven the usefulness of the NILM system in characterizing the state of mechanical systems onboard U.S. Coast Guard vessels and at the U.S. Navy’s Land Based Engineering Site (LBES) in Philadelphia, Pe...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce equipment for estimation and training of anticipation performance in the combat sport karate. This equipment comprises a measuring station and a PC-software, which contains a database of videos and athletes, several tests and analysis routines and reports for the coach.

Hospitals outsource several activities of the service support in order to focus on the core healthcare production as maintenance service. Recently, faced to the sophistication and the costs of medical equipment that continue to escalate, governments have implemented new reforms to control costs and improve the efficiency and the quality. Hospitals become interested in minimizing the total opera...

The use of a structured approach to production system design is an effective means to improve a firm’s overall manufacturing capability. Design of a production system in addition to defining system architecture (subsystem organization and integration) also includes allocating high-level system requirements to subsystems. An area where requirements allocation is critical to system performance is...

Article history: Received 27 September 2007 Received in revised form 4 October 2008 Accepted 15 June 2009 With the rapid advancement of technology, product life cycle is shortening continuously. In order to compete against other firms in fiercely competitive global markets, a firm has to keep developing new technology to differentiate itself from others. The acquisition of new coretechnology eq...