... of the manipulator torch tip on the x-y plane tothe center C of platform, φ w isthe heading angle in the horizontal plane of the welding torch, and φ C isthe heading angle of the mobile platform ... In order to perform the welding task, an assignment for the mobile platform andthe manipulator is made as: the mobile platform should track the curved surface in which the welding trajectory ... on, andthe manipulator has the duty of reaching tothe altitude of the welding point 2.2 Kinematic Modeling for the Mobile Platform The kinematic equation of the platform can be described as the...
... materials and revised the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript 14 15 Acknowledgements The authors thank Ms Marie Désy for statistical analysis The work was supported by a grant ... rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1996, 39:1576-1587 Yoshihara Y, Nakamura H, Obata K, Yamada H, Hayakawa T, Fujikawa K, Okada Y: Matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases ... from the Canadian Arthritis Network YS-P and AJdBF are scholars of the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec NS is supported by a studentship from La Fondation Armand-Frappier andthe Canadian...
... veterinarians are motivated to collect valid data at the herd level They perceive the collection of the data in and of itself as the basis for taking relevant action at the farm They may skip the ... for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 cal analyses in the future, and they are highly motivated to use, for instance, multi-factorial analysis on the herd level or higher ... local herd context 4) Law-abiding Veterinarians stated that metritis scoring is enforced by law This was the primary motivating factor for running the herd health programme, rather than, for example,...
... children tend to take on many behavioral characteristics of the parents and their behaviors are modified by that of the parents That isto say, the family becomes a reference group, and language ... on the three above language theories, respectively According to Ellis (2005), the oral-situational approach is based on a behaviorist learning theory, that is, it assumes that language learning ... conduct a research on 10 English teachers and 50 pupils in Hanoi These 50 pupils are in normal classes of a normal school They are in the labor area their parents all come from the working class...
... of high temperature regions for baseline and adiabatic with EGR cases arethe same Also at adiabatic case for 400°CA and 420°CA, these regions more spread out in the main chamber andthe values ... releases in the adiabatic case is larger than the other cases thus, the amount of burnt fuel in this case is more than the others Because of shortage of oxygen in the charge of cylinder in the ... 11e, at 380°CA, the NO forms in the swirl chamber throat, pre and main chambers and then transferred into the main chamber at 400°CA for baseline engine While at adiabatic without and with EGR cases...
... conrmed that the peptide possessed the potential to form an a- helix with a balance between amphiphilicity and hydrophobicity, and structural characteristics that are associated with obliqueorientated ... membrane-interactive a- helices in that they possess a hydrophobicity gradient along the a- helical long axis This structural feature causes an a- helix to penetrate membranes at a shallow angle of 3060 , thereby ... Fig 1B that a glutamate residue is centrally located in the apolar face of the AP1 a- helix, and previous studies have shown that similarly located glutamate residues are important for the antimicrobial...
... There are many existing data management offices and databases that could support ocean acidification observational and research data The FOARAM Act also calls for an “Ocean Acidification Information ... law the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring (FOARAM) Act of 2009—which calls for, among other things, the establishment of a federal ocean acidification program; this report is ... researchers now and in the future Other large-scale research programs have developed data policies that address data quality, access, and archiving to enhance the value of data collected within these...
... oxygen isa vital element for the respiration of the living organisms, the organisms start to die off The other reason for the massive death of the organisms, including fishes, is an increase in ammonia ... are not available for the author Monitoring of fish and other higher organisms is not performed in the Nemunas regularly Single studies of the state of the fisheries are organised by corresponding ... sewerage network The norms for wastewater discharged into sewerage are less strict than the norms for wastewater discharged into surface waters, because a big part of wastewater is discharged into...
... inputs tothe solver The third step isto run the optimizer and collect the output The IOF Allocator can run on a desktop PC that has a spreadsheet program anda mathematical solver installed The approximate ... headquarters is in the form of data, information, knowledge or wisdom, andthe effect that the headquarters has isto add value tothe inputs By moving the input along the path toward wisdom, the headquarters ... of the mathematical model at the heart of the IOF Allocator and its implementation are included in Appendixes Aand B Here we will cover the details of the data and constraints in the model The...
... sincerely hope that Designing the Invisible isa book that you guys are also proud of and glad to have on the FSS shelf Sarah: thanks for the updates, organisation and encouraging words throughout the ... join the ranks of their authors Huge thanks tothe whole team: Mark and Emma: I still think you’ve both taken a risk by going ahead with this book and I’m so grateful for that risk and for all ... show them the way It should also leave them wanting more, or at the very least let them achieve what they came to in the first place And it should be the same for their entire experience So as...
... radiological agent that has the potential to cause harm hazardous event an incident or situation that can lead tothe presence of a hazard (what can happen and how) indicator organisms microorganisms ... isa statutory authority within the portfolio of the Commonwealth Minister for Health and Ageing, established by the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992 The NHMRC advises the ... world’s land area, it has only 1% of the water carried by the world’s rivers This is because Australia is flat and hot, so most of the rain that falls evaporates again before it can replenish...
... To find the area of a circle, use the formula A = r2 r ■ To find the area of a parallelogram, use the formula A = bh h b ■ To find the area of a rectangle, use the formula A = lw w l ■ To find the ... value (the median), and /or the average of all the values (the mean) M EAN AND M EDIAN To find the average, orthe mean, of a set of numbers, add all the numbers together and divide by the quantity ... 16 Therefore, the surface area of the cube = 16 ϫ = 96 To find the surface area of a rectangular solid, use the formula A = 2(lw ϩ lh ϩ wh) length height width V = lwh ■ To find the surface area...
... preferences This method was used in the UK, the Netherlands andthe USA in several health care projects [13-17] The aim of this paper isto identify the factors which are important for treatment decisions ... In fact, there isa whole spectrum of explanatory and pragmatic trials [5] The second level of reporting is related tothe appraisal of the effect of the health service Appraisal means that an ... for each of the four factors Second, several pairs of factor levels were presented tothe participants to assess the weight of the factors For that, the participants had to express the importance...
... (Oncorhynchus mykiss) One test series was conducted with organisms whereas the other test series was accomplished without fish Every test with fish was performed with 15 individuals Therefore, the ... or absence of fish Furthermore, the water content, the capacity of exchangeable cations, the organic matter and additional variables are responsible for erodibility of cohesive sediment [8] The ... Page of Authors’ contributions HS and HH developed the concept of this article HS, MB, CC, RMF, SUG, MH, SH, UK, GL, SR, AS and HH contributed equally tothe content of the article and gave their...
... arethe signals to be transmitted, yri isthe received signal at the ith relay, yi1 ,yi2 arethe received signals at destination, and βi isthe scale factor of the ith relay The source keeps transmitting: ... plot the outage probabilities of the SISO, NAF and adaptive NAF protocols for a two-relay scheme anda spectral efficiency of bits pcu Here again, the enhancement of the adaptive NAF over the NAF ... where the choice of a transmission scheme is based on the channel links quality 3.1 Presentation of the adaptive AF The idea leading tothe definition of the adaptive AF strategy isto consider all...
... two nodes, a base station anda mobile client By attaching the tap agents, the nodes are capable of introducing live traffic into the ns-2 simulator and injecting traffic from the simulator into the ... of HTTP/TCP makes them more appropriate for high-speed networks Since the transmitted data traffic is much higher than that in WAP 1.x, the WAP 2.0 performance degrades when FER is high due to more ... bytes The IP packets captured from the live traffic by thenodeare first fragmented at link layer (LL) and then transmitted tothe other nodeThe received fragments are then defragmented in the node...
... companies, government, andthe markets and, thereby, quality original investment research Thanks tothe PC andthe Net, an investor has at his/her disposal the essential communications and analytical ... After all, investors are just that—investors They are not analysts who are being compensated for rendering their advice to others Rather, investors invest That isto say, they create and manage ... balance sheet At this point, what we are most interested in from the balance sheet arethe total assets andthe equity With that information we will a little ratio analysis with the sales andthe net...
... produce chitin The chitin was then centrifuged and washed with distilled water, ethanol, and ether, in o order, and vacuum dried at 70 C to produce refined chitin in white powder form It was then hydrolyzed ... in the United States alone [20] Therefore, there is an urgent need for significant research to develop new medicine to treat hypertension There area great number of pharmaceuticals that have ... experimental groups were hypertensive, but there were no histopathological signs in tissue properties (data not shown) Discussion Hypertension isa major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases such as...