In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The advent of agriculture and civilization, however, necessitated a way for people to measure ...

Fenceline monitoring systems collect environmental data at the boundaries of industrial facilities, allowing air ...

There is growing acknowledgement in the United States that to achieve better care, at an affordable cost, with better population health, we will need to expand beyond traditional approaches. Most ...

Comparing commercial Hadoop big data-styled analysis systems might get a little easier, thanks to a new benchmark from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). The TPCx-HS benchmark, ...

Hospital-acquired infections are growing more difficult to treat due to rise of antibiotic resistance. These infections pose dangerous health consequences for patients and threaten hospitals’ bottom ...

A common approach to measuring distance or angle in a rotating system is by using an incremental encoder or resolver. The majority of industrial applications, such as machines or drives, are dominated ...

The material and environmental conditions control the dimensional stability of solid bodies. Strains at break should be precisely recorded from a low percentage in the case of metals and around 100% ...