it is accepted that the visual comfort in schools depends on the quality of the whole visual environment. this leads to the concern upon the quality and quantity of lighting. currently in iran, in order to calculate energy transfer for public buildings a coefficient is usually used. this coefficient considers the rate of sunlight energy absorption in these kinds of buildings. to increase the de...

BACKGROUND Evidence of cost and effects for comprehensive hospital-based integrative care (IC) is scarce. The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of using local hospital data and routines to estimate costs and effects of anthroposophic IC programmes for chronic pain and stress disorders in Sweden. METHODS Retrospective analysis of one IC hospital's local administrative registry d...

The prison population is a high-risk group for tuberculosis (TB). This investigation aimed to study predictive factors of treatment adherence among prisoners involved in a pilot programme of supervised treatment. The study included TB patients from the Men's Penitentiary Center of Barcelona (MPCB) in 1995. Directly observed therapy (DOT) was carried out in the infirmary or in a methadone progra...

Thas paper presents the desagn of a fuzzy usage parameter controller (FUPC) for ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) networks The usage parameter control (UPC) as here based on a dual leaky bucket (DLB) mechanasm, wath parameters of token generatzon rate and token pool saze. In FUPC, we further e m p l o y parameters of token-change rate and anterarnval tame of zncomzng cells as znput languastac va...

Admittance control approaches show significant promise in providing reliable force-guided assembly. An important issue in the development of these approaches is the specification of an appropriate admittance control law. This paper identifies procedures for selecting the appropriate admittance to achieve reliable planar force-guided assembly for single-point contact cases. A set of conditions t...

OBJECTIVES To determine the long-term change in static admittance values of subjects with a positive or negative history of otitis media (OM) and ventilation tube (VT) insertion; and to investigate the association between static admittance values and tympanic membrane abnormalities. DESIGN Prospective follow-up study. SUBJECTS A total of 358 subjects with or without a history of OM (OM+ or ...

This chapter is a programme-level overview of the contribution of ACTS to new ways of flexible working, and highlights some of the technological issues that need to be addressed by the IST programme. The task of the ACTSLINE project is to summarise the results of ACTS in a form meaningful to communications professionals in various business sectors external to ACTS. For further information on su...

Pseudo-admittance is introduced as a novel bilateral telemanipulation system that is designed to mimic proportional-velocity admittance control on systems where the master is an impedance-type robot. The controller generalizes to systems with slave robots of the impedance or admittance type. Pseudo-admittance uses a proxy with admittance dynamics combined with direct force feedback from the sla...

This paper presents the characterization of illuminated high-frequency active devices using a time domain physical simulation model. The model is based on Boltztnann’s Transport Equation (BTE), which accurately accounts for carrier transport in microwave and millimeter wave devices with sub-micrometer gate lengths. Illumination effects are accommodated in the model to represent camer density ch...

Active network synthesis is important for circuit designer to find new circuits with desired performance. In this paper, a method of Tow-Thomas (TT) Bi-quad band-pass filter circuit generation methods is proposed using nullor representation of the operational amplifier (OPA), and a method for synthesizing active band-stop filters is presented, both of which start from voltage transfer function ...