System Safety Analysis of a Brake Press Using Fuzzy Methodology

Brake presses are widely used in industry, especially in small and medium sized establishments because of their relative affordability and flexibility. They enable the production of a wide variety of sheet metal parts of various sizes and shapes. The operation...

The Status of English for Business Purposes

English is the mostly used medium for international business communication. Business men around the world use English at work. They use English in finance, industry and exchanging goods and services. As regards Evan Frando (2005:1), “Business English is communication with...

Fundamentals of Mixed Signal Testing

Fundamentals of Mixed Signal Testing The main purpose of functional testing is to ensure that the fabricated chip operates in conformance with its specifications. Based on the system specifications, the first step in the test process is to specify the...

Spring of artificial intelligence

spring of artificial intelligence In 1956, artificial intelligence (AI) was formally established as an academic discipline during the Dartmouth workshop. After that, it has gone through a series of boom-bust cycles. Because of the half-century efforts, it has become a...

Physical activity based unobtrusive sleep monitoring technologies

Sleep stages Sleep is a physiological state defined by specific characteristics (Roehrs, 2000). Being periodic, naturally-occurring, reversible, recurring and involving suspension or reduction of alertness and muscular activity, it has always been a subject of interest for researchers, even regarding...

Interpretability and disentanglement

 Problem statement and motivation An unsupervised representation for speech, i.e., one that could be trained directly with large amounts of unlabelled speech recordings, and could disentangle the main factors underlying speech variability, would have a major impact on many speech...

Hydrogen Storage Properties

Hydrogen Storage Properties The physical and chemical properties of materials related with safety and design of hydrogen storage system decides its suitability for prevalent use as hydrogen store. The cost of material, synthesizing processes, raw elements and their abundance are...

Challenging characterisation: multi-scale sized features

Structure Cellulose is a linear, high molecular weight polymer built up from P-D-glucose units that are linked via P(1,4) bonds and belongs to the chemical group of poly saccharides. Cellulose of natural origin is organised in strongly bound bundles of...

Technological workflow from data acquisition to surgery

Technological workflow from data acquisition to surgery Reconstruction A CT scan with a 1 mm slice thickness is performed at the veterinary clinic on both front limbs of the ailing dog. The paws are positioned with extension of the antebrachiocarpal...

Uncertainty analysis of test data at the nrc 1.5 meter trisonic wind tunnel

Accurate prediction of aircraft aerodynamic performance is critical to manufacturers like Bombardier Aerospace for design and development activities. Even though advances in computing power, modeling approaches, and computational fluid dynamic algorithms can now provide performance estimates, wind tunnel experimental data...