carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) is considered by researchers because of its high prevalence, and several studies have been done to find the causes and factors which increase the chance for the syndrome. these studies have shown relationships between this syndrome with some physical parameters like wrist dimensions, weight and systemic conditions. there is no investigation on risk factors in cts in...

We present a highly simplified model of the dynamical structure of a disk galaxy where only two parmeters fully determine the solution, mass and angular momentum. We show through simple physical scalings that once the mass has been fixed, the angular momentum parameter λ is expected to regulate such critical galactic disk properties as colour, thickness of the disk and disk to bulge ratio. It i...

In a Quality of Service (QoS) aware communication system, a user is able to choose between various service classes, each with different reliability, predictability, and efficiency degrees. However, until now security has not been recognized as a parameter in QoS architectures and no security-related service classes have been defined. This implies that end-users have no chance of configuring the...

In this work we argue on the benefits of including decision making modules in multi-agent systems architectures. We describe one of such modules used to fuse quantitative information. The description includes the syntaxis of the module, together with their options. Several aggregation operators can be used, each of them with a particular set of parmeters (that take different forms according to ...

A simple structure of Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) for gas sensing and chemical sensing has been proposed in this paper. Index guiding properties of proposed PCF have been numerically investigated by using finite element method (FEM). From the numerical result, it is shown that the relative sensitivity and confinement loss depend on geomatrical parameters and wavelength. The relative sensitivit...

This work describes the optimization of cryogenic treatment (CT) parameters such as the cooling rate, the soaking temperature, the soaking time, the tempering temperature and the tempering time to maximise the tool wear of high speed steel tools in dry turning of AISI 316 grade austenitic stainless steels by Taguchi method. For this purpose, four iteration of Taguchi design (L16) have been used...