590 research outputs found
Electronic Health Records and Cloud based Generic Medical Equipment Interface
Now-a-days Health Care industry is well equipped with Medical Equipments to
provide accurate and timely reports of investigation and examination results.
Medical Equipments available in market are made for specific tests suited for a
particular laboratory leading to a wide variety of devices. The result viewing
experience on console of these devices is not only cumborsome for medical staff
but inefficient. Therefore, Medical Equipment Interfaces act as backbone of any
Hospital Management Information System assisting in better management and
delivery of test results. It also acts as a mode to collect data for further
research and analysis. These equipments communicate via a fixed data format but
compatibility among these formats is a major issue being faced in modern and
legacy medical equipments. In this paper, we present a case study of designing
and implementing a cloud based Generic Medical Equipment Interface(GMEI) along
with the state of the art in such systems. This solution removes the burden of
reentry of patient details into the Electronic Health Record(EHR) and thrives
for accelerating EMR initiative in the countryComment: National Conference on Medical Informatics 2014 (AIIMS, New Delhi
Increases in salience of ethnic identity at work: the roles of ethnic assignation and ethnic identification
To better understand how ethnicity is actually experienced within organisations, we examined reported increases in ethnic identity salience at work and responses to such increases. Thirty British black Caribbean graduate employees were interviewed about how and when they experienced their ethnic identity at work. The findings demonstrated that increased salience in ethnic identity was experienced in two key ways: through ‘ethnic assignation’ (a ‘push’ towards ethnic identity) and ‘ethnic identification’ (a ‘pull’ towards ethnic identity). We explore how and when ethnic assignation and ethnic identification occur at work, and their relevance to how workplaces are experienced by this group of minority ethnic employees. The findings suggest the need for further research attention to the dynamic and episodic nature of social identity, including ethnic identity, within organisations, and to the impact of such increases in salience of social identities on behaviour at work
A critical role for the Sp1-binding sites in the transforming growth factor-β-mediated inhibition of lipoprotein lipase gene expression in macrophages
Increasing evidence suggests that the cytokine transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) inhibits the development of atherosclerosis. The lipoprotein lipase (LPL) enzyme expressed by macrophages has been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis by stimulating the uptake of lipoprotein particles. Unfortunately, the action of TGF-β on the expression of LPL in macrophages remains largely unclear. We show that TGF-β inhibits LPL gene expression at the transcriptional level. Transient transfection assays reveal that the −31/+187 sequence contains the minimal TGF-β-responsive elements. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays show that Sp1 and Sp3 interact with two regions in the −31/+187 sequence. Mutations of these Sp1/Sp3 sites abolish the TGF-β-mediated suppression whereas multimers of the sequence impart the response to a heterologous promoter. TGF-β has no effect on the binding or steady-state polypeptide levels of Sp1 and Sp3. These results, therefore, suggest a novel mechanism for the TGF-β-mediated repression of LPL gene transcription that involves regulation of the action of Sp1 and Sp3
Modeling Of Fatigue Crack Growth in Composite Repair by Finite Element Method
Fatigue failure is caused due to fluctuating loads and is one of the most common
type of failure in mechanical structures. Fatigue damage starts with nucleation,
crack formation and then propagation of the crack. Estimation of safe life of critical
components becomes very essential in fail safe tolerant design for certification. Total
life of a component generally consists of two stages viz. crack initiation and crack
propagation. The proportion which each contributes will vary with the geometry,
the loading and especially with the material.
Crack growth behaviour is a major issue in scheduling of inspection and
maintenance in variety of industries especially in aircraft industry. Here, failure
leads to catastrophic consequences and loss of life. When aircraft reach the end of
their service life, fatigue cracks are found to have developed along rivet holes and
other highly stressed regions of the aircraft. In order to extend the life of these
aircraft, repairs are made to arrest these cracks. This is because huge financial costs
involved in manufacturing of aircrafts. Hence, extending the life of in-service
aircrafts can provide huge savin
Emission Characteristics of the Projectile Fragments at Relativistic Energy
A projectile (84^Kr_36) having kinetic energy around 1 A GeV was used to
expose NIKFI BR-2 emulsion target. A total of 700 inelastic events are used in
the present studies on projectile fragments. The emission angle of the
projectile fragments are strongly affected by charge of the other projectile
fragments emitted at same time with different emission angle is observed. The
angular distribution studies show symmetrical nature for lighter charge
projectile fragments. The symmetrical nature decreased with the charge of
projectile fragments. At ~4o of emission angle for double charge projectile
fragments, the momentum transfer during interaction is similar for various
target species of emulsion were observed. We also observed a small but
significant amplitude peaks on both side of the big peak for almost all light
charge projectile fragments having different delta angle values. It reflects
that there are few percent of projectile fragments that are coming from the
decay of heavy projectile fragments or any other process.Comment: 32 pages, 17 Figure
Centrifugal Pump Impeller Modeling With Reverse Engineering
Abstract This project is about application of reverse engineering. Reverse engineering helps in obtaining the geometry of part or product which is not available otherwise. Its application makes it possible to reconstruct the original component with its drawing and manufacturing process. It is used in various fields but here the main application is related to broken impeller. In this present work a broken impeller of an old 0.5 hp motor taken. Currently this part is not available in the market as it is out dated and drawing of the component does not exist. As the part is no longer available it has to be made in-house so it will require all activities from designing to rapid prototyping. The procedure includes various stages which will help understand the different phases of reverse engineering. The process starts with understanding the reverse engineering procedure. The part geometry is first obtained with the help of scanning technology. Then with the use of different softwares, the three-dimensional image of the broken impeller is obtained. Once the image is obtained the part is optimized using ANSYS software. After the optimized geometry is obtained, the pattern of the part is obtained using Rapid prototyping machine. This can be used for casting of the original part
Characteristics of alpha projectile fragments emission in interaction of nuclei with emulsion
The properties of the relativistic alpha fragments produced in interactions
of 84^Kr at around 1 A GeV in nuclear emulsion are investigated. The
experimental results are compared with the similar results obtained from
various projectiles with emulsion interactions at different energies. The
total, partial nuclear cross-sections and production rates of alpha
fragmentation channels in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions and their
dependence on the mass number and initial energy of the incident projectile
nucleus are investigated. The yields of multiple alpha fragments emitted from
the interactions of projectile nuclei with the nuclei of light, medium and
heavy target groups of emulsion-detector are discussed and they indicate that
the projectile-breakup mechanism seems to be free from the target mass number.
It is found that the multiplicity distributions of alpha fragments are well
described by the Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling presentation. The mean
multiplicities of the freshly produced newly created charged secondary
particles, normally known as shower and secondary particles associated with
target in the events where the emission of alpha fragments were accompanied by
heavy projectile fragments having Z value larger than 4 seem to be constant as
the alpha fragments multiplicity increases, and exhibit a behavior independent
of the alpha fragments multiplicity.Comment: 33 pages, 8 figures and 3 tables (in press
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