In an industrial field, non-destructive testing (NDT) is commonly used to inspect industrial products.Among NDT methods using radiation sources, X-ray laminography has several advantages, such as high depth resolution and low computational costs.Moreover, an X-ray laminography system with stationary source array and compact detector is able to redu
The crisis of capitalism and the marketization of health care: the implications for public health professionals
The current economic crisis in Europe has challenged the basis of the economic model that currently prevails in much of the industrialised world.It has revealed a system that is managed not for the benefit of the people but rather for swisse high strength magnesium powder berry corporations and the small elite who lead them and which is clearly uns
A Redundantly Actuated Chewing Robot Based on Human Musculoskeletal Biomechanics: Differential Kinematics, Stiffness Analysis, Driving Force Optimization and Experiment
Human masticatory system exhibits optimal stiffness, energy efficiency and chewing forces needed for the food breakdown due to its unique musculoskeletal actuation redundancy.We have proposed a 6PUS-2HKP (6 prismatic-universal-spherical chains, 2 higher kinematic pairs) redundantly actuated parallel robot (RAPR) based on its swisse high strength ma
Improved Transient Performance of a Fuzzy Modified Model Reference Adaptive Controller for an Interacting Coupled Tank System Using Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm
The main objective of the paper is to design a model reference adaptive controller (MRAC) with improved transient performance.A modification to the standard direct MRAC called fuzzy modified MRAC (FMRAC) is used in truvisionhealthftp.com the paper.The FMRAC uses a proportional control based Mamdani-type fuzzy logic controller (MFLC) to improve the