According to WHO, at any one time, around 50 per cent of medical equipment in lowand middle-income countries cannot be used because of lack of maintenance or spare parts.1 We have found that unwillingness or inability to repair equipment and put it back in use is also a major cause. New equipment is made available by different international non-government organisations (INGOs) competing with on...

Code reuse attacks such as return oriented programming and jump oriented programming are the most popular exploitation methods among attackers. A large number of practical and non-practical defenses are proposed that differ in their overhead, the source code requirement, detection rate and implementation dependencies. However, a usual aspect among these methods is consideration of the common be...

Inexpensive analog phase array antennas are on the verge of becoming widely available. These versatile antennas are capable of very rapidly altering their gain pattern to form complex patterns. However, previous research has shown that problems arise when using the stock 802.11 MAC protocol with directional antennas, and new MAC protocols have been designed to address these issues as well as ex...

During pick and place tasks, a mobile manipulator performs recurring relative moves within the close proximities of the object of interest and the destination independent of their global poses. These moves are usually critical to the success of the manipulation attempt and hence need to be executed delicately. Considering the critical yet recurring nature of these moves, we let the robot memori...

BACKGROUND In 2000, reuse of disposable syringes and inadequately sterilized syringes resulted in 39% of all injections being unsafe, causing 22 million infections. We describe the contribution of measles supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) and Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) funding in replacing disposable and sterilizable syringes with auto-disable (AD) syringes t...

BACKGROUND Despite high levels of equipment distribution through Needle and Syringe Programmes (NSPs) in Australia, the levels of reuse of equipment among people who inject drugs remain concerning. This paper used an exploratory analysis to examine the needs of NSP client that could be addressed by NSPs to enhance service impact and blood-borne virus risk practices. METHODS People who inject ...

Inexpensive analog phase array antennas are on the verge of becoming widely available. These versatile antennas are capable of very rapidly altering their gain pattern to form complex patterns. However, previous research has shown that problems arise when using the stock 802.11 MAC protocol with directional antennas, and new MAC protocols have been designed to address these issues as well as ex...

Over the last decade, software has become an integral part of many products with which it is not traditionally associated (e.g., automobiles, medical equipment, home appliances, etc.). This has led to problems in many organizations, since it has proved difficult to integrate software engineering processes with other engineering processes. To address the increased complexity and to coordinate th...

E-waste currently represents a portion of global waste problem; nevertheless, e-waste quantities are continuously fast rising all over the world. As the waste problem increases, new business opportunities related to their reuse and recycling could be evaluated. The paper focuses on a particular type of e-waste: mobile phones as they are the most ubiquitous electronic equipment. By analysing mar...