In the past, many production-scheduling methods were developed to achieve high due-date and short manufacturing lead times performance. Among them, DRUMBUFFER-ROPE (DBR) has been recognized as one of the excellent solutions. However, there are some implementation constraints (e.g., time buffer determination, setup ratio evaluation, non-CCR subordination etc.) limit its implementation performanc...

In this paper we suggest an entirely new strategy for the dexterous manipulation of a linear flexible object, such as rope or a cable, with a high-speed manipulator. We deal with a flexible rope as one example of the linear flexible object. The strategy involves manipulating the object at highspeed. By moving the robot at high-speed, we can assume that the dynamic behaviour of the flexible rope...

Four-probe resistance vs temperature and gate voltage are reported for an individual single-wall carbon nanotube rope before and after doping in situ with potassium. All the features in R(T) from unoriented bulk material, before and after doping, are qualitatively reproduced by the rope data. The 5.3 K conductance of the pristine rope decreases with positive gate voltage, while G vs Vg becomes ...

This paper describes the five development stages of the rope human parasite. Rope parasites have been discovered as a result of cleansing enemas. Parasite adult stages live in human gastrointestinal tract and are anaerobic. They move inside the body by releasing gas bubbles utilizing jet propulsion. Rope parasites look like a rope, and can be over a meter long. It takes tens of years for them t...

We examine a three-dimensional (3-D) numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation describing a very fast interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) propagating from the solar corona to 1 AU. In conjunction with its high speed, the ICME evolves in ways that give it a unique appearance at 1 AU that does not resemble a typical ICME. First, as the ICME decelerates far from the Sun in the solar w...

abstract back grand: early obesity and its transfer to the adult, increases likelihood incidence of coronary artery disease (cad). atp-binding cassette transporter) abca1) as a member of the abc transporters family plays a crucial role in reverse cholesterol transport and cad prevention. objective: the purpose of this study was to investigate abca1 expression in lymphocytes, plasma apolipoprote...

Automatic visual inspection is an arising field of research. Especially in security relevant applications, an automation of the inspection process would be a great benefit. For wire ropes, a first step is the acquisition of the curved surface with several cameras located all around the rope. Because most of the visible defects in such a rope are very inconspicuous, an automatic defect detection...

As fundamental research for human-robot interaction, this paper addresses the rhythmic reference of a human while turning a rope with another human. We hypothyzed that when interpreting rhythm cues to make a rhythm reference, humans will use auditory and force rhythms more than visual ones. We examined 21-23 years old test subjects. We masked perception of each test subject using 3 kinds of mas...

Order Preserving Encryption (OPE) schemes have been examined to a great extent in the cryptography literature because of their prospective application to database design. OPE is an appealing method for database encryption as it permits to execute sort and range queries in an efficient manner without decrypting the data. Databases such as CryptDB are beginning to employ encryption to guard sensi...

Magnetic clouds are a subset of interplanetary coronal mass ejections characterized by a smooth rotation in the magnetic field direction, which is interpreted as a signature of a magnetic flux rope. Suprathermal electron observations indicate that one or both ends of a magnetic cloud typically remain connected to the Sun as it moves out through the heliosphere. With distance from the axis of th...