Nowadays the automobile industry is becoming more and more demanding as far as quality is concerned. Within the wide variety of processes in which this quality must be ensured, those regarding the squeezing of the auto bodywork are especially important due to the fact that the quality of the resulting product is tested manually by experts, leading to inaccuracies of all types. In this paper, an...

background: the primary objective of this study was to determine the association between risk factors and the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorder (msd) among auto repair mechanics in klang valley, malaysia. methods: overall, 191 mechanics from eight auto repair centers in klang valley, malaysia were stratified sampling as participants of this study. a modified version of the general standard...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To compare the efficacy and patient tolerance, compliance, and preference between auto-continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and constant CPAP. DESIGN Single-blinded, crossover, cohort study of consecutive patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, with two treatment periods of 2 months each. PATIENTS Twenty-five patients (22 men, 3 women) with sleep apnea syndrom...

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are expected to become more and more important in the upcoming years, playing a significant role in 4G networks. In order to enable the deployment of IP services in such networks, IP address autoconfiguration mechanisms are required. Although the ad hoc topic has been a very intense research area, with a plethora of published papers about routing, there is a lack...

This research investigates adverse events and patient safety in healthcare due to poor supply chain management practices, and inadequate and disorganized product validation procedures. Focusing on commodity medical and surgical products, this research investigates correct product validation points for maximum patient safety. This study also explores benefits of standard product identifying tech...

This paper analyzes the recent development regarding the technology in ad-hoc networks. It compares the different routing protocols and analyses them from architecture design perspective. The comparison includes technical aspects, similarities and missing functionality on each of the protocols. The paper identifies the network resource discovery as missing functionality, and presents a generic ...

This paper presents a frequency synthesizer architecture based on the time delay digital tanlock loop (TDTL). The loop is of the first order type. The synthesizer architecture includes an adaptation mechanism to keep the complete system in lock. The mechanism uses a frequency sensing structure to control critical TDTL parameters responsible for locking. Both integer and fractional multiples of ...

A mobile device in a MANET must be assigned a free IP address before it may participate in unicast communication. This is a fundamental and difficult problem in the practical use of any MANET. Several solutions have been proposed. However, these approaches have different drawbacks. A new IP address allocation algorithm, namely prophet allocation, is proposed in the paper. The proposed scheme ma...

Background Primary care physicians and emergency dept. physicians are often called upon by patients to determine whether individual patients should be prescribed adrenaline auto-injectors (AAI’s). Although these patients are often also referred to an allergist to help determine whether their condition warrants this, the wait may often be for months. We set out to determine how accurate referrin...

This paper deals with the embedded network dedicated to the entertainment system of passenger cabin in an aircraft. The work described in this paper focuses on a wireless solution to interconnect the main components of this system. The selected solution is UWB with smart antennas. This solution is proved to be able to provide the system with the needed bandwidth. The self-configuration capabili...