Creating architecture for a complex telecommunication system is a difficult task and requires expertise of many different stakeholders. The software architecture design process relies on understanding the architecturally significant requirements (ASRs) for the system under design. This paper describes experiences in creating a new base station product line. A goal was to create a process to fac...

In the beginning a command prompt based C++ application was created to control a Rotary ASRS using a RS232 serial interface. Later by implementing the logic and the functions of the program a new one was created. Using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) a Graphical User Interface (GUI) program was developed to control the robot and to manage its database. The MFC ap...

BACKGROUND Currently, only one in three UK medical students undertake an intercalated degree. This has often been implicated as a result of financial obstacles or a lack of interest in research due to inadequate exposure to academic medicine. The aims of this study were to determine whether exposure to research early in medical school, through the initiation of an early years clinical academic ...

Robot conveyor tracking is a task in which a robot follows and obtains objects on a conveyor belt. Prior to obtaining an object from an automation line, a robot needs information about the object, such as its position, orientation, velocity, size, etc. Compared to ultrasonic sensors and infrared ray sensors, vision sensors can provide more information about the object on the conveyor belts. Gen...

BACKGROUND Comorbidity between ADHD and Bipolar Disorder (BD) is associated with greater severity of BD. The current study aims at investigating, in a specialized mood disorders clinic, the percentage of comorbid ADHD-BD subjects and assessing the impact of ADHD on the severity of BD. METHODS Out of 539 mood disorders subjects, the medical records of 138 BD subjects were scrutinized in terms ...

We present a scheduling problem of the flow-shop type. We introduce a transportation system: robot or conveyor. This transportation system is also involved in machine loading and unloading. The studied workshop consists of two machines and a conveyor that must process a set of tasks. Tasks having just been executed wait for the conveyor to be transported. The objective is to determine a feasibl...

Age-standardized rates (ASRs; using 1985 Japanese standard population) for Breast cancer mortality for 1960–2000 are shown for Japan, the USA, the UK, France and Italy (Fig. 1). Over this period, ASRs of breast cancer among women from the USA, the UK, France and Italy decreased following the peak around 1990. ASRs for Japanese women were much lower than those observed among women in the USA, th...

Novel CMOS realizations of the second and the third generation current conveyors based on the use of the current conveyor of the first generation are given. The simulations show that these circuits have an excellent performance and an exceptional bandwidth. q 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Current conveyors; CMOS realizations 1. Introduction Since its conception, the ...

OBJECTIVE Our study aims to describe changes in carcinoma in situ (CIS) and invasive cervical carcinoma (ICC) in Korean women diagnosed between 1993 and 2009. METHODS All cases of CIS and invasive cervical carcinoma diagnosed from 1993 to 2009 in the Korean National Cancer Incidence database were analyzed. Age-standardized rates (ASRs) and annual percent changes (APCs) in incidence rates were...

Objetivo. Presentar los parámetros métricos iniciales del Adult ADHD Self Report Scale V 1.1 abreviado (ASRS-6) en participantes adultos jóvenes peruanos, y comparar estos resultados con obtenidos el estudio primigenio. Material métodos. Estudio observacional trasversal; 70 (39 mujeres), de Lima Metropolitana (Perú); 26 actividad laboral, entre 17 33 años (edad promedio 21.7), varias carreras p...