When considering a composite strip or plate under certain thermal and environmental conditions and loadings, there is a minimum strain threshold for the appearance of the first micro crack. The associated strain level is defined here as “critical strain”. There are various active displacement methods …

Enige tijd geleden presenteerde de commissie Lemstra haar rapport over het Maasstad ziekenhuis Rotterdam, waar de klebsiella bacterie heerste. Opvallend uit het rapport is de dominante rol die de lijstjes met de 'beste ziekenhuizen' van Elsevier en het Algemeen Dagblad vervullen binnen de strategie van …

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were (i) To establish whether it is possible to assess by means of a check-list in a reliable way errors which violated biomechanical and ergonomical principles during nursing tasks, and (ii) to study the effectiveness of an ergonomic-educational course by using …

Abstract—In many biomechanical motion studies, kinematic parameters are estimated from position measurements on a number of landmarks. In the present investigation, dummy motion experiments are performed in order to study the error dependence of kinematic parameters on geometric factors (number of markers, …