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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"adjustability"”.
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Assessing the Relationship between Occupational Injury Risk and Performance: the Efficacy of Adding Adjustability and Using Exoskeletons in the Context of a Simulated Drilling Task
… of two distinct types of interventions: adding adjustability, as a commonly advocated approach when considering ergonomics early in the (re)design phase to change task demands; and using exoskeletons to enhance worker capacity. A simulated drilling task was used, which was considered informative …
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Barriers to Access Palliative Care for Ethnic Minorities, Particularly South Asians in the UK: A Systematic review
… PC services: acceptability, approachability, and adjustability. Acceptability includes the roles of culture and religion, family and religion, language barriers, and lack of knowledge or awareness. Approachability factors that serve as barriers include socioeconomic factors, racism, and low …
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Mechanical Design of the Legs for OLL-E, a Fully Self-Balancing, Lower-Body Exoskeleton
… other design requirements such as weight, adjustability, and range of motion. Adjustability was a key factor for ensuring the comfortable use of the exoskeleton and to minimize risk of injury by aligning the exoskeleton joint axes as close as possible to the wearer's joints. The legs of …
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Neural networks and fuzzy logic for structural control
… networks and the high degree of flexibility and adjustability acquired through utilization of fuzzy logic. This method is classified as a ""learning control method"" with emphasis on the important role of the learning capabilities of the controller. However it can be classified as a smart or an …
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The Design, Manufacture, and Testing of a Novel Adhesion System for a Climbing Vehicle
… designing for lightness, manufacturability, and adjustability. The clean sheet design presented in this thesis was taken from concept to functioning prototype in less than 6 months, requiring a considered mix of off-the-shelf components, custom fabrication, and outsourced production. Proof of …
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Characterization and testing of a height adjustable kinematic coupling
… stiffness and range & precision of height adjustability. Here, the prototype coupling and test apparatus design, with initial results that verify the system's manufacturing are reported. Some design revisions to the coupling are also suggested. Future work will report coupling …
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2007 Formula SAE pedal box
… box design emphasizes design for manufacture, adjustability, ergonomics and weight savings. An innovative design decreases the amount of space needed for the pedal box through the use of vertically mounted master cylinders while allowing for the d.river to adjust front to rear brake bias, brake …
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A Framework to Support the Development of Manually Adjustable Light Shelf Technologies
… basis. Amongst the variations tested, rotational adjustability has been found to contribute most to the increase in performance. Segmented adjustability, e.g. where the inner and outer sections of a light shelf are manipulated separately, was found to extend performance of light shelves even …
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Análise da estabilidade lateral em ambientes fluviais do semiárido paraibano.
… focusing mainly on analyzing the lateral adjustability and its relation with the energy flow, which through identification of the material composition of banks through texture and consistency test, and analysis of vegetation, as well as analysis of the energy distribution, and so from the …
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Design and analysis of a 200 volt, high slew rate, current-limited operational amplifier
… a small amount supplied for current-limiting adjustability.
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Discrete Element Modeling of Railway Ballast for Studying Railroad Tamping Operation
… modular code that enables a high degree of adjustability to allow control of all process parameters for achieving optimized output. A parametric study is performed to find the best values of tine motion parameters to optimize the linear tamping efficiency and a performance comparison has …
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Measuring the Scope of International Accounting Harmonisation and Standardisation – A Study of South East Asia
… non-compliance by organisations and the level of adjustability accessible in specific accounting treatments.
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Beam alignment and image metrology for scanning beam interference lithography : fabricating gratings with nanometer phase accuracy
… (0.4 arcsec), which translates into a period adjustability of 4 ppm at 400 nm.
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Mechatronic design of an ISO 22675 prosthetic foot tester
… 1.5. The redesigned structure also provides adjustability to four crucial geometric parameters specified by the ISO 22675 standard and enables testing of prosthetic foot ranging from 23 cm to 31 cm in length. In addition, a system control PCB was designed and developed to serve as an …
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The Effect of Incorporating End-User Customization into Additive Manufacturing Designs
… The associated metrics are used to quantify the adjustability of a set of online designs which are then plot against the daily use rate and each other on separate graphs. The use rate data used in this study is naturally biased towards hobbyists due to where the designs used to create the data …
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Design, optimization, and performance of an adaptable aircraft manufacturing architecture
… which clarifies the relations and points of adjustability available in aircraft manufacturing is presented. A signomial-programming (SP) aircraft optimization code that is capable of simulating the inefficiencies generated by the AAM geometry was developed. The SP mathematical structure and …
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Discrete Element Modeling of Railway Ballast for Studying Railroad Tamping Operation
… model is constructed with high degree of adjustability to allow control of all process parameters for achieving realistic output. The analysis shows that DEM is a highly valuable tool for studying railroad tamping operation. It has the capability to provide crucial and unprecedented …
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Theoretical and experimental study on cable vibration reduction with a TMD-MR damper
… the flexibility of the TMD damper and the adjustability of the MR damper, and therefore is a promising way to reduce the cable vibration, though further research is necessary to warrant field applications.
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Investigation of a Novel Dual Band Microstrip/Waveguide Hybrid Antenna Element
… desirable feature of a dual band antenna is easy adjustability of upper and lower frequency bands. This thesis presents investigation of a new dual band antenna, which is a hybrid of microstrip and waveguide radiating elements. The low band radiator is a Shorted Annular Ring (SAR) microstrip …
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The design of adjustable spherical mechanisms using plane-to-sphere and sphere-to-plane projections
… of rigid body locations and orientations. Having adjustability would make a single mechanism effective for multiple design applications. Numerous methods have been published for the design of adjustable planar mechanisms. Unfortunately, the number of design methods for adjustable spherical …
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