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Outcome of shaft fractures among children treated with elastic stable intramedullary nailing
Background: Long bone fractures are frequent occurrence among children and considered a frequent pediatric orthopedic injury requiring hospitalization. Authors aimed to retrospectively analyze the outcome of fixation of long bone fractures with elastic stable intramedullary nailing (ESIN) among children and adolescents.Methods: From 2010 to 2018, ESIN was performed on 128 children aged 2 to 17 years having single shaft fractures of long bones. The data related to associated injuries, postoperative complications, postoperative treatment, till bony union or removal of rods, mal-union, functional deficit, need for secondary surgical intervention and subjective complaints at follow-up originated from postoperative clinical and radiological consultations carried out regularly. The primary end points were time of complete radiological union or removal of rods.Results: The mean age at the time of accident was 9.5 years. There were 37 (28.9%) femoral fractures, 16 (12.5%) of the lower leg, 51 (39.8%) fractures of radius/ulna and 24 (18.8%) of the humerus. In 2 (2.3%) children, reoperation was necessary due to prominent ends of elastic rods and 6 (4.7%) had early removal of rods due to same reasons. End point of the study, removal of rods noted in 126 (82.8%), radiological evidence of union in 7 (5.5%) and 15 (11.7%) cases were lost at follow-up.Conclusions: ESIN fixation of diaphyseal fractures in children and adolescents is safe. ESIN was found to be minimally invasive method, noted to produce excellent functional as well as cosmetic outcomes
Modeling of FRP Strengthened Masonry Wall under In-plane Lateral Loading
Masonry is an old and commonly used building material in the world. However, due to its brittle nature, it is vulnerable to earthquake loads. Strengthening of masonry walls with fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) sheets is one of the techniques used to strengthen masonry walls. Numerical analysis is crucial to study the behavior of structures under various boundary conditions. This paper aims to numerically study and analyze the effect of fiber reinforced polymer sheets. In particular, various geometrical configurations of the FRP sheets on masonry walls are analyzed using the finite element modeling (FEM) approach. ABAQUS software is used for the finite element modeling. A macro-modeling approach is adopted for modeling masonry, in which masonry is considered as homogenous and isotropic continuum. Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets with different patterns are applied on masonry walls. Different configurations include: single diagonal, vertical, horizontal and FRP lamina on the whole wall. Cohesive interaction is used for the bond between masonry and FRP sheets. The analysis is performed under in-plane loading condition. The numerical results indicate that tensile stresses from the masonry is taken by the FRP sheets which significantly increased the strength of the wall. Numerical results also revealed that among different patterns of FRP sheets on masonry wall, single diagonal FRP pattern was efficient and more economical
Access Control for IoT: Problems and Solutions in the Smart Home
The Internet of Things (IoT) is receiving considerable amount of attention from both industry and academia due to the business models that it enables and the radical changes it introduced in the way people interact with technology. The widespread adaption of IoT in our everyday life generates new security and privacy challenges.
In this thesis, we focus on "access control in IoT": one of the key security services that ensures the correct functioning of the entire IoT system. We highlight the key differences with access control in traditional systems (such as databases, operating systems, or web services) and describe a set of requirements that any access control system for IoT should fulfill. We demonstrate that the requirements are adaptable to a wide range of IoT use case scenarios by validating the requirements for access control elicited when analyzing the smart lock system as sample use case from smart home scenario. We also utilize the CAP theorem for reasoning about access control systems designed for the IoT.
We introduce MQTT Security Assistant (MQTTSA), a tool that automatically detects misconfigurations in MQTT-based IoT deployments. To assist IoT system developers, MQTTSA produces a report outlining detected vulnerabilities, together with (high level) hints and code snippets to implement adequate mitigations. The effectiveness of the tool is assessed by a thorough experimental evaluation.
Then, we propose a lazy approach to Access Control as a Service (ACaaS) that allows the specification and management of policies independently of the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) while leveraging its enforcement mechanisms.
We demonstrate the approach by investigating (also experimentally) alternative deployments in the IoT platform offered by Amazon Web Services on a realistic smart lock solution
On FIDEs System by Modified Sumudu Decomposition Method
In this paper, the technique of modified Sumudu decomposition method has been employed to solve a system of Fredholm integro-differential equations with initial conditions. Two examples are discussed to show applicability, reliability and the performance of the modified sumudu decomposition method. This study showed the capability, simplicity and effectiveness of the modified approach. Keywords: Modified Sumudu decomposition method; System of Fredholm integro-differential equations
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DEVELOPMENT OF A SOFT PNEUMATIC ACTUATOR FOR MODULAR ROBOTIC MECHANISMS
Soft robotics is a widely and rapidly growing field of research today. Soft
pneumatic actuators, as a fundamental element in soft robotics, have gained
huge popularity and are being employed for the development of soft robots.
During the last decade, a variety of hyper-elastic robotic systems have been
realized. As the name suggests, such robots are made up of soft materials,
and do not have any underlying rigid mechanical structure. These robots are
actuated employing various methods like pneumatic, electroactive, jamming
etc. Generally, in order to achieve a desired mechanical response to produce
required actuation or manipulation, two or more materials having different
stiffness are utilized to develop a soft robot. However, this method introduces
complications in the fabrication process as well as in further design
flexibility and modifications. The current work presents a design scheme of
a soft robotic actuator adapting an easier fabrication approach, which is economical
and environment friendly as well.
The purpose is the realization of a soft pneumatic actuator having functional
ability to produce effective actuation, and which is further employable
to develop modular and scalable mechanisms. That infers to scrutinize the
profile and orientation of the internal actuation cavity and the outer shape of
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the actuator. Utilization of a single material for this actuator has been considered
to make this design scheme convenient. A commercial silicone rubber
was selected which served for an economical process both in terms of the
cost as well as its accommodating fabrication process through molding. In
order to obtain the material behavior, \u2018Ansys Workbench 17.1 R
\u2019 has been
used. Cubic outline for the actuator aided towards the realization of a body
shape which can easily be engaged for the development of modular mechanisms
employing multiple units. This outer body shape further facilitates
to achieve the stability and portability of the actuator. The soft actuator has
been named \u2018Soft Cubic Module\u2019 based on its external cubic shape. For the
internal actuation cavity design, various shapes, such as spherical, elliptical
and cylindrical, were examined considering their different sizes and orientations
within the cubic module. These internal cavities were simulated in order
to achieve single degree of freedom actuation. That means, only one face
of the cube is principally required to produce effective deformation. \u2018Creo
Perametric 3.0 M 130\u2019 has been used to design the model and to evaluate the
performance of actuation cavities in terms of effective deformation and the
resulting von-mises stress. Out of the simulated profiles, cylindrical cavity
with desired outcomes has been further considered to design the soft actuator.
\u2018Ansys Workbench 17.1 R
\u2019 environment was further used to assess the
performance of cylindrical actuation cavity. Evaluation in two different simulation
environments helped to validate the initially achieved results. The
developed soft cubic actuator was then employed to develop different mechanisms
in a single unit configuration as well as multi-unit robotic system
developments.
This design scheme is considered as the first tool to investigate its capacity
to perform certain given tasks in various configurations. Alongside
its application as a single unit gripper and a two unit bio-mimetic crawling
mechanism, this soft actuator has been employed to realize a four degree
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of freedom robotic mechanism. The formation of this primitive soft robotic
four axis mechanism is being further considered to develop an equivalent
mechanism similar to the well known Stewart platform, with advantages of
compactness, simpler kinematics design, easier control, and lesser cost.
Overall, the accomplished results indicate that the design scheme of Soft
Cubic Module is helpful in realizing a simple and cost-effective soft pneumatic
actuator which is modular and scalable. Another favourable point of
this scheme is the use of a single material with convenient fabrication and
handling
Fuzzy information graph of epileptic seizures
The mathematical modelling of EEG signals provides valuable data to neurologists, and is heavily utilized in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. The erratic nature of these signals, coupled with their lack of a consistent visible trend results in a high degree of difficulty in forming a statistical model to describe seizures. Working with Delia-normalized signals, the authors compute the associated Shannon entropies for three sets of data, and show via construction that the information flow during an epileptic seizure can be viewed as a type-2 fuzzy graph
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