A Versatile Laser Glass Inspection and Damage Testing Facility

ABSTRACT This work presents a comprehensive study of the performance of winter tires on snow, ice, and asphalt. A set of 77 different winter tires were carefully selected for the study. Of these, 27 were new and 50 were worn from real traffic use. All three tire types for winter conditions (Nordic, European, and studded) were represented. All tires have been tested using a mobile tire-testing device for snow and asphalt and using a stationary tire-testing facility for ice. Both devices recorded the tire forces and motions, enabling a close to complete stationary characterization of the tires. In addition, 42 of the tires were tested on a passenger car, where brake performance was evaluated for the three different road conditions. This enables a comparative study of performance between tire types and wear for various winter road conditions. The results suggest that the recorded data represent real vehicle performance. Some conclusions from the measurements are that the effect of wear is consistent between the tire groups and that the performance degradation is most noticeable on studded tires on ice and on European tires on snow.

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A unique integrated flight testing facility for advanced control/display research

10.2514/6.1981-2490 ◽

1981 ◽

Author(s):

V. BATSON ◽

J. HATFIELD ◽

N. NOVACK

Keyword(s):

Flight Testing ◽

Testing Facility ◽

Advanced Control

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Low-Cost Hardware Implementation of Human Blood Identification Device Using Feed-Forward Artificial Neural Network on FPGA

10.31227/osf.io/dp63x ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Rizki Eka Putri ◽

Denny Darlis

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Artificial Neural Network ◽

Low Cost ◽

Image Resolution ◽

Blood Type ◽

Feed Forward ◽

Testing Facility ◽

System Input ◽

Artificial Neural ◽

Short Time

This article was under review for ICELTICS 2018 -- In the medical world there is still service dissatisfaction caused by lack of blood type testing facility. If the number of tested blood arise, a lot of problems will occur so that electronic devices are needed to determine the blood type accurately and in short time. In this research we implemented an Artificial Neural Network on Xilinx Spartan 3S1000 Field Programable Gate Array using XSA-3S Board to identify the blood type. This research uses blood sample image as system input. VHSIC Hardware Discription Language is the language to describe the algorithm. The algorithm used is feed-forward propagation of backpropagation neural network. There are 3 layers used in design, they are input, hidden1, and output. At hidden1layer has two neurons. In this study the accuracy of detection obtained are 92%, 92%, 92%, 90% and 86% for 32x32, 48x48, 64x64, 80x80, and 96x96 pixel blood image resolution, respectively.

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Surface Treatment of P2O5-BaO-Al2O3-K2O Phosphate Laser Glass

Journal of Inorganic Materials ◽

10.3724/sp.j.1077.2010.00196 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 196-200 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gang YANG ◽

Qi QIAN ◽

Zhong-Min YANG

Keyword(s):

Surface Treatment ◽

Laser Glass

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New Challenges for Biobanks: Accreditation to the New ISO 20387:2018 Standard Specific for Biobanks

BioTech ◽

10.3390/biotech10030013 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 13

Author(s):

Pasquale De Blasio ◽

Ida Biunno

Keyword(s):

Performance Monitoring ◽

Quality Management System ◽

Internal Audit ◽

Accreditation Body ◽

Accreditation Process ◽

Testing Facility ◽

Collection Data ◽

Definition Of ◽

First Time ◽

Operational Aspects

Background: The emergence of “multi-omics” and “multi-parametric” types of analysis based on a high number of biospecimens enforces the use of a great number of high-quality “Biological Materials and Associated Data” (BMaD). To meet the demands of biomedical research, several Biological Resource Centers (BRCs) or Biobanks world-wide have implemented a specific Quality Management System (QMS) certified ISO 9001:2015 or accredited by CAP9 ISO 20387:2018. For the first time, ISO, with the support of several Biobanking experts, issued the ISO 20387:2018 which is the first ISO norm specific for Biobanks. The fundamental difference with present certification/accreditation standards is that the ISO 20387:2018 focuses not only on the operational aspects of the Biobank, but also on the “competence of the Biobank to carry our specific Biobanking tasks”. Methods: The accreditation process for ISO 20387:2018 required the definition of: (1) objectives, goals and organizational structure of the Biobank, including procedures for governance, confidentiality and impartiality policies; (2) standard operating procedures (SOPs) of all activities performed, including acquisition, analysis, collection, data management, distribution, preparation, preservation, testing facility and equipment maintenance, calibration, and monitoring; (3) procedures for control of documents and records, the identification of risks and opportunities, improvements, corrective actions, nonconforming records and evaluation of external providers (4) an internal audit and management reviews, verification of QMS performance, monitoring of quality objectives and personnel qualification and competency in carrying out specific Biobanking tasks. Results: The accreditation process is performed by an independent authorized organization which certifies that all processes are performed according to the QMS, and that the infrastructure is engineered and managed according to the GDP and/or GMP guidelines. Conclusion: Accreditation is given by an accreditation body, which recognizes formally that the Biobank is “competent to carry out specific Biobanking tasks”.

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