New Concept Design for Mikma Coffee Grinder to Increase User Base

Our project focused on helping Mikromashina, a Soviet-era company with an aging product line, to improve its brand image and consumer base. Our main objective was to produce a new design for one of Mikromashina’s flagship products - the coffee grinder, whose sales have slowed in recent years. The proposed design, a manual burr grinder that incorporated features unique for this class of product, is detailed from concept to manufacturing stage in this report. It is informed by extensive market research, interviews with experts, and focus groups with consumers. The combined American-Russian team delivered a CAD model of the final design, ready for prototyping, and an economic analysis of the relevant production costs and profit margins

Design and Optimization of a FSAE Vehicle

The purpose of this MQP was to research, analyze, and supply the frame and various sub-components for the design of the new 2016 FSAE car for competition. The MQP carefully studied the older design and created the new design and major sub-systems while working closely with the future 2015-2016 FSAE MQP team and SAE club members. A key goal was to improve the performance (handling, acceleration, braking, information gathering, serviceability, and reliability) of the future car. Design and analysis of the sub-system components and the structural frame layout was performed using SolidWorks Simulation. Each sub-system of the car was optimized for integration and performance to ensure that the car will be competitive once built

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Severe early onset preeclampsia: short and long term clinical, psychosocial and biochemical aspects

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific disorder commonly defined as de novo hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks gestational age. It occurs in approximately 3-5% of pregnancies and it is still a major cause of both foetal and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide1. As extensive research has not yet elucidated the aetiology of preeclampsia, there are no rational preventive or therapeutic interventions available. The only rational treatment is delivery, which benefits the mother but is not in the interest of the foetus, if remote from term. Early onset preeclampsia (<32 weeks’ gestational age) occurs in less than 1% of pregnancies. It is, however often associated with maternal morbidity as the risk of progression to severe maternal disease is inversely related with gestational age at onset2. Resulting prematurity is therefore the main cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in patients with severe preeclampsia3. Although the discussion is ongoing, perinatal survival is suggested to be increased in patients with preterm preeclampsia by expectant, non-interventional management. This temporising treatment option to lengthen pregnancy includes the use of antihypertensive medication to control hypertension, magnesium sulphate to prevent eclampsia and corticosteroids to enhance foetal lung maturity4. With optimal maternal haemodynamic status and reassuring foetal condition this results on average in an extension of 2 weeks. Prolongation of these pregnancies is a great challenge for clinicians to balance between potential maternal risks on one the eve hand and possible foetal benefits on the other. Clinical controversies regarding prolongation of preterm preeclamptic pregnancies still exist – also taking into account that preeclampsia is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the Netherlands5 - a debate which is even more pronounced in very preterm pregnancies with questionable foetal viability6-9. Do maternal risks of prolongation of these very early pregnancies outweigh the chances of neonatal survival? Counselling of women with very early onset preeclampsia not only comprises of knowledge of the outcome of those particular pregnancies, but also knowledge of outcomes of future pregnancies of these women is of major clinical importance. This thesis opens with a review of the literature on identifiable risk factors of preeclampsia

Measurement of associated W plus charm production in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

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