RATIONALE Rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) are on the rise in Canada. Flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) is an initial screening test for CRC primarily used in adults aged 50 years and older at average risk for the disease. Physicians and registered nurses have been shown to have the same effectiveness in performing a FS procedure. This paper presents an analysis of the use of registered nurses (RN) c...

In Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises: A Toolkit for Dynamic Adaptation (Springer, 2010), authors and educators, Homa Bahrami and Stuart Evans present a crossfunctional general management toolkit for strategizing, organizing, leading, and ultimately reinventing knowledge enterprises. Part I of this interview is focused on the theory behind, and the conceptual foundations of, superflexi...

A theoretical model for instantaneous PLIF measurements of mole fraction in a shock tunnel ow with pressure gradients and large temperature variations is presented. The model determined the optimum excitation frequency which provided PLIF signal intensity proportional to freestream mole fraction. Experimental PLIF images of a two-dimensional slot scramjet injector with and without hydrogen fuel...

Modeling and solving real world problems is one of the most important issues in optimization problems. In this paper, we present an approach to solve Fuzzy Interval Flexible Linear Programming (FIFLP) problems that simultaneously have the interval ambiguity in the matrix of coefficients .In the first step, using the interval problem solving techniques; we transform the fuzzy interval flexible p...

this article addresses a single row facility layout problem where the objective is to optimize the arrangement of some rectangular facilities with different dimensions on a line. regarding the np-hard nature of the considered problem, a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm based on simulated annealing has been proposed to obtain a near optimal solution. a number of test problems are randomly generat...

this paper presents a robust fractional order controller for flexible-joint electrically driven robots under imperfect transformation of control space. the proposed approach is free from manipulator dynamics, thus free from problems associated with torque control strategy in the design and implementation. as a result, the proposed controller is simple, fast response and superior to the torque c...

A flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) is flexible, thin and lightweight; however, FPCBs experience more deflection and stress in the flow environment because of fluid–structure interaction (FSI), which affects their performance. Therefore, the present study focuses to optimize a typical FPCB electronic in order to minimize the deflection and stress induced in the system. In this study, numeri...

This article reports the use of commercial, flexible printed circuit technology for the fabrication of low-cost microelectrode arrays (MEAs) for recording extracellular electrical signals from cardiomyocyte cultures. A 36-electrode array has been designed and manufactured using standard, two-layer, polyimide-based flexible circuit technology, with electrode diameters of 75 and 100 m. Copper str...

A technique called the Enhanced Disturbance Map to plan space manipulator motions that will result in relatively low spacecraft disturbances is presented. Although a spacecraft's attitude control reaction jets can compensate for the dynamic disturbances imposed on its spacecraft by its manipulator's motions, reaction jet fuel is a limited resource. Excessive disturbances would limit the life of...