Geared Five-bar motion generation is used to synthesize a mechanism which passes through or approximate prescribed rigid-body positions. This work will discuss the motion generation of geared five-bar mechanism with position tolerance variations due to gear fabrication. The tolerance variations study will be based on the standards of American Gear Manufacturing Association (AGMA) and American N...

BACKGROUND Growing imperatives for safety, quality and responsible resource allocation have prompted renewed efforts to identify and quantify harmful or wasteful (low-value) medical practices such as test ordering, procedures and prescribing. Quantifying these practices at a population level using routinely collected health data allows us to understand the scale of low-value medical practices, ...

Purpose. The study aimed to determine the extent of and factors influencing the prescribing of injections for the treatment of mild/moderate community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in Mongolia. Methods. Questionnaires were developed and administered to medication providers (34 Pharmacists, 27 pharmacy technicians) and prescribers (22 general doctors and 49 medical specialists) working in Mongolia. R...

Interprofessional learning is a key component of today's health sciences education. Within a two-course series in dental pharmacology and therapeutics, a dental curriculum was revised to provide an interprofessional activity to expose dental students to a community pharmacy setting. The objectives of this activity were to augment students' learning about drug laws and prescription writing, as w...

A 35-year-old male diagnosed with HIV infection 5 years previously and who had never received antiretroviral therapy presented with an oral cavity lesion. The mass in the inferior gum margin (Fig. 1) had been growing progressively for 2 months, bled easily and produced displacement of the lower teeth and halitosis. The patient had been prescribed wide-spectrum antibiotics by his general practit...

We consider a mathematical model for the quasi-static deformation of a thinning sheet. The model couples a first-order equation for the thickness of the sheet to a prescribed curvature equation for the displacement of the sheet. We prove a local in time existence and uniqueness theorem for this system when the sheet can be written as a graph. A contact problem is formulated for a sheet constrai...

We present a mathematical model describing the electro-mechanical coupling and the mechanical activity of the myofibres of the cardiac muscle and we perform the simulations for the partial differential equations describing the dynamical displacement of a onedimensional body with the resulting constitutive law. Prescribed boundary conditions describing the cardiac valves mechanisms and the arter...

BACKGROUND Cerebral palsy is the most common cause of childhood physical disability in developed countries, affecting two children per 1000 live births. Hip displacement affects about one-third of children with cerebral palsy and may result in pain, deformity, and impaired function. The prevention of hip displacement has not been studied in a randomized trial as far as we know. METHODS A rand...

We derive in algebraic form the displacement and stress fields produced by a triangular element of constant slip by superposing the solution of Comninou and Dundurs (1975) for an angular dislocation in an elastic half-space. Triangular elements are more flexible for simulating complex geometries than the rectangular elements widely used for modeling slip zones as a superposition of constant sli...