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Left Ventricle Assist Device
… the development and testing of left ventricle assist devices (LVADs). Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America, and LVAD offers an effective solution to patients with severe coronary artery disease who are not eligible for heart transplants. However, before testing LVADs in-vivo, …
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Engineering external heart assist device
… Department of Chemical Engineering on a heart assist device which was designed, built and tested in the laboratory. The project can be divided into a mechanical and an electrical task, both of which were undertaken by the author. The electrical task involved design and construction of a …
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A Bicycle Electric Assist Unit
The BEAU is an electric-assist bicycle system that is completely self-contained within the rear wheel. The purpose of approaching a electric-assist bicycle in this manner is two-fold: simplifying the device and opening the method of implementation to more creative uses. The project requires a large …
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LUCAS - Lund University Cardiopulmonary Assist System
Lund University Cardiopulmonary Assist System (LUCAS) is a mechanical device providing automatic 5 cm deep chest compressions and active decompressions back to normal anatomical position with a frequency of 100 per minute, and a duty cycle of 50%, i.e., LUCAS is constructed to give chest …
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Extending the ASSIST sketch recognition system
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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Agents to assist in finding help
… person in the community could easily provide assistance. Our approach to addressing this problem is to use software agents to assist the search for expertise. Previous research on this topic has been mostly in the areas of information marketplaces, referral systems or information repositories. …
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Satellite Deceleration Using Gravity Assist from Asteroid
<p>Satellites have used gravity assists to increase their speed when exploring the solar system. This same maneuver can be done but with the objective to slow down the satellites. This has been theorized to slow down asteroids using the moon to capture them in earth’s orbit. My goal is to determine …
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Analytical methods for gravity-assist tour design
… analytical methods for the design of gravity-assist space- craft trajectories. Such trajectories are commonly employed by planetary science missions to reach Mercury or the Outer Planets. They may also be used at the Outer Planets for the design of science tours with multiple flybys of those …
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The auto assist bar system for disabled people
This paper presents the development of the auto assist bar system to help the disabled people especially paralyzed in the legs where they have a problem to doing transaction stand-to-sit and sit-to-stand. An example the difficult movement of people with disabilities are from wheelchair to bed or …
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Christianity, the Duty to Assist Others, and Supererogation
<p>In 1958, J.O. Urmson's landmark article "Saints and Heroes" was the first in the history of philosophy to treat supererogation in a systematic manner. Arguing that the traditional threefold classification system consisting of <em>duties</em>, <em>permissible acts</em>, and <em>wrong acts</em> …
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Design and Analysis of a Lift Assist Walker
… provided stability to the elderly but cannot assist a person from sitting to standing. The objective of this project is to present the design and analysis of a lift assist walker. This report discusses the design and analysis of a collapsible lift assist walker capable of lifting a patient up …
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Using docker to assist Q&A forum users
Q&A forums are today an important tool to assist developers in programming tasks. Unfortunately, contributions to these forums are often unclear and incomplete as developers typically adopt a liberal style when writing their posts. This dissertation reports on a study to evaluate the feasibility of …
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Wireless bicycle assist : structural analysis of outer casing
… amounts of torque to a bicycle wheel to assist the rider in pedaling. This device makes bicycles accessible to a much larger fraction of the population. The device consists of two main modules, one of which is mounted on the handlebar, allowing the user a convenient way to set a desired …
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Assist channel coding for improving optical character recognition
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Engineering, Adoption, and Ethics of Lift-Assist Exoskeletons
… approach to better adoption of this type of assistive technology. The exoskeleton is based around a novel differential that allows the exoskeleton legs to articulate during ambulatory motion while providing automatic lifting engagement by linking the force-generating mechanisms in each leg. …
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Energy change detection to assist in tactical intelligence production
Currently, signals intelligence (SIGINT) analysts are constantly overwhelmed by the amount of data they ingest. A relatively new technology, known as Energy Change Detection (ECD), was fashioned in order to alleviate a portion of the "background noise," or signals not of interest to the SIGINT …
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Efficient hardware and software assist for many-core performance
In recent years, the number of available cores in a processor are increasing rapidly while the pace of performance improvement of an individual core has been lagged. It led application developers to extract more parallelism from a number of cores to make their applications run faster. However, …
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Experiences of being maintained on a ventricular assist device
… support from two different types of ventricular assist device (VAD). The literature review focuses on the decisionmaking experience of patients and caregivers considering implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD). The LVAD is a type of long-term/durable VAD which enables patients to …
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