Bearings are important components of most machinery and their working conditions influence the operation entire machinery. Even if bearings being used under excellent conditions, sooner or later material fatigue will occur. Besides other things poor operating environment contaminated peculiarly moist areas improper handling practices cause premature failures. This article focuses on vibration a...

Friedreich's ataxia (FA) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that causes progressive nervous system damage. FA caused by a deficiency in the frataxin protein due to expansion of GAA repeats first intron gene. Reduced expression thought negatively affect mitochondrial function, leading increased oxidative Although considered disorder, it not completely understood why most patients present...

Machinery entanglements are a leading cause of hospitalized injury on Canadian farms. This study evaluates the role farm tasks play in the occurrence of machinery entanglement events. A retrospective case series of 41 entanglement injuries involving 35 farm-machinery types was assembled. Only a few limited tasks were implicated in the majority of entanglements. These tasks were as follows: (1) ...

Purpose – Aims to show how robots can be used to prototype and prove key handling operations during the design of food processing machines. This can reduce both development time and costs. Design/methodology/approach – A number of examples of the use of robots during the design of food processing machinery are presented in the areas of product handling, product manipulation and product packing....

I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?” This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms “machine” and “think.” The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous, If the meaning of the words“machine”and “think” are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to e...

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous, If the meaning of the words "machine" and "think" are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to...

During the 1970s, Barwise and Seligman took the situation-theoretic approach to information and took away much of the technical machinery for handling situations, relations and types, to produce an abstract mathematical account of information flow. Their motivating idea is that information flow is made possible by regularities in systems. Rather than develop machinery for analyzing those regula...