Background Most aphasia research is published in international, peer-reviewed journals a format that inaccessible for people with (PWA). Video presents an ideal disseminating information to PWA accessible digital format. No has explored the preferred videos from perspectives of PWA.Aims To explore preferences aphasia-accessible videos.Methods and procedures The study involved three stages; all ...

In this paper we design a passive fault tolerant controller against actuator faults for discretetime piecewise affine (PWA) systems. By using dissipativity theory and H∞ analysis, fault tolerant state feedback controller design is expressed as a set of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). In the current paper, the PWA system switches not only due to the state but also due to the control input. Th...

The aim of our study was to investigate the association between pulse wave velocity (PWV) and pulse wave analysis (PWA)-derived measurements for the evaluation of arterial stiffness. A total of 20 (7 male and 13 female) healthy, non-smoking individuals, with mean age 31 ± 12years were included. PWV and PWA measurements were performed using a SphygmoCor apparatus (Atcor Medical Blood Pressure An...

The paper concerns with synthesis of stabilizing controllers for processes described by fuzzy Takagi-Sugeno models. Commonly in the fuzzy control it is difficult to design control strategies which guarantee that the closed-loop system will be asymptotically stable. Standard approaches which rely on co-stabilization of the whole collection of local models are usually overly conservative. Therefo...

Virtual prototype of pipe wagon articulating (PWA) system has been developed and simulated based on the kinematics and dynamics of machinery and Automatic Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems (ADAMS) software. It has been integrated with real-time three dimensional (3-D) system simulations for detailed and responsive interaction with dynamic virtual environments. By using this virtual model, ...

Ion exchange resins were investigated for the effective recovery of platinum, palladium, and gold from a pregnant cyanide heap leach solution. Screening results indicated that strong-base anion exchange resins proved to be most effective in the recovery of these metal cyanides. Gold was selectively recovered with the use of Minix, while effective recovery of gold, platinum, and palladium over t...

This study investigated the benefits of hot-water spraying (HWS) as a diagnostic test to verify the absence of signs of life (SOL) before scalding in pigs slaughtered with carbon dioxide (CO2) stunning. A total of 37 108 finishing pigs from five German abattoirs (A to E) operating at 55 to 571 pigs per hour were assessed. Suspended pigs were sprayed onto the muzzle, head and front legs (143 to ...