Reprocessing has emerged as an attempt to control the cost of single-use bipolar and ultrasound diathermy devices despite limited data on defect rates. This study compares the defect rates, as reported by surgical teams, between original equipment manufacturer (OEM) single-use bipolar

We currently possess a limited understanding of an original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) decision to employ a branded component contract with a supplier of a component over the alternative white box contract. In this paper, we use the lens of transaction cost economics to analyze contracts

Very fast development of CAD/CAE (Computer-Aided De-sign and Computer-Aided Engineering) tools (Lee 1999) re-sulted in an increasing interest in virtual prototyping among automotive manufacturers. The main reason for using more

The SGI Origin 2000 is a cache-coherent non-uniform memory access (ccNUMA) multiprocessor designed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics, Inc. The Origin system was designed from the ground up as a multiprocessor capable of scaling to both small and large processor counts without any bandwidth

for which a linear hybrid automaton satisfies a temporal-logic requirement. 1 Introduction A hybrid system typically consists of a collection of digital programs that interact with each other and with an analog environment. Examples of hybrid systems include manufacturing controllers, automotive and flight

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the application of CFD to the prediction of radial compressor aeroacoustics. It concentrates mainly on automotive turbocharger operations in the low mass-flow range where blade leading-edge and tip separation reduce the compressor performance and induce transient flow behaviour. Whereas the blade-passing is tonal and at high frequency, usually beyond the human hearing range, transience in the flow are turbulence-dominated, broad-band in nature, and in magnitude a significant source of aeroacoustics which appears well within the range of peak human hearing (1-5kHz). Other noise sources occur due to distortions in the flow upstream of the compressor face, and rotating stall. The simulation methodology enumerated here pays attention to all the above flow-induced aeroacoustics. Due consideration is given to turbulence modelling, to ensure that both the narrow-band and broad-band sources are directly resolved in the CFD. Appropriate discretisation practices are adopted, so as to capture both turbulent-convection and soundpropagation mechanisms. Pressure-wave non-reflective boundary conditions are applied to the computational boundaries to remove any artificial resonances in the domain. STAR-CCM+, the commercial CFD code used here, was previously benchmarked against experimental data for the same compressor under ideal installation conditions, then the compressor performance assessed under real installation conditions

, this enriched representation has not yet shown its superiority over the BOV. In the first part we show that with several well-motivated modifications over the original framework we can boost the accuracy of the FK. On PASCAL VOC 2007 we increase the Average Precision (AP) from 47.9% to 58.3%. Similarly, we

Over the last three decades Taiwan and South Korea have seen high sustained rates of growth in output and income. While high savings rates and substantial investments in new capital equipment are clearly an important part of their success, it is impossible to ignore the role of the export market

It has become common to distribute software in forms that are isomorphic to the original source code. An important example is Java bytecode. Since such codes are easy to decompile, they increase the risk of mahcious reverse engineering attacks. In thii paper we describe the design of a Java code

Current concern with the impact of new technologies on the wage structure motivates this study. We offer evidence that technology-skill and capital-skill (relative) complementarities existed in manufacturing early in this century and were related to the adoption of electric motors and particular