Conductive webbing

Research the latest prosthetic developments on the Web. Always obtain your teacher s permission before conducting Web searches. Write a brief report on two developments that interest you. Include information about the technology and how it was different than what was previously available. 

Figure 9.3 Conductive webbing with interlinking (Courtesy of Bally Ribbon Mills).

Figure 9.8 Three-strand conductive webbing (Courtesy of Ohmatex).

Conductive tape (Courtesy of Bally Ribbon Mills) is used to neutralize the static electricity and EMI shielding. An elastic webbing (Courtesy of Bally Ribbon Mills) with cable has been used for undersea communication. Physiological sensors and other sensors have been incorporated into textile substrate to monitor heart rate, skin temperature, movement and respiration, and muscle activity for medical and sports applications. RIP (respiratory inductance plethysmography) belts (Courtesy of Natus Neurology Incorporated) are used for sleep apnea monitoring. A conductive belt is used to make electrodes for EEC and other medical applications. A 3D conductive webbing (Courtesy of Bally Ribbon Mills) is also used as ON and OFF switch. 

The Web-based graphical user interface permits a choice from numerous criteria and the performance of rapid searches. This service, based on the chemistry information toolkit CACTVS, provides complex Boolean searches. Flexible substructure searches have also been implemented. Users can conduct 3D pharmacophore queries in up to 25 conformations pre-calculated for each compound. Numerous output formats as well as 2D and 3D visuaHzation options are supplied. It is possible to export search results in various forms and with choices for data contents in the exported files, for structure sets ranging in size from a single compound to the entire database. Additional information and down-loadable files (in various formats) can be obtained from this service. 

The printing of newspapers is conducted at very high speeds, often reaching 3000 feet per miaute. AH three printing processes utilize similar quaHty newsptint which, essentiaHy, is made of groundwood or thermomechanical pulp. Presses are fed a continuous web of newsptint that unwiads from a feed roUer. Inks dry by absorption of Hquid iato the porosity of the substrate. Some evaporation of water ia a flexo pubHcation ink can accelerate the dryiag process. 

The fabric may also be given one or more of a number of other finishing treatments, either ia tandem with web formation and bonding or off-line as a separate operation, as a means of enhancing fabric performance or aesthetic properties. Performance properties iaclude functional characteristics such as moisture transport, absorbency, or repeUency flame retardancy electrical conductivity or static propensity abrasion resistance and frictional behavior. Aesthetic properties iaclude appearance, surface texture, and smell. 

Contact Dryers. Coatings on webs as well as sheets of newly formed paper can be dried by contacting the web around the surface of a heated dmm. Thus conduction is used to transfer the heat. Dmms can also be used to rapidly cool warm extmded films, to increase the viscosity, and soHdify the film. 

Electronic marketplace/E-commerce In addition to the many databases available and person-to-person contacts, E-commerce in plastics has been conducted through suppliers web sites or the dot-commerce independent web sites that link material buyers with sellers in transactions or auction formats. During the year 2000 five plastic producers/suppliers and various elastomer producers/suppliers created a new and important business model of a joint-venture web site. It provides multiple companies to join forces to do business. This is a strategy some observers call competition and others regard as just another form of selling in. an electronic format. Regardless of how it is perceived, the model will help propel e-commerce into the mainstream of processor procurement due to the size and wealth of the companies involved. The plastic model example is the largest online business-to-business site todate. 

Web-based data collection and management systems provide a mechanism for remote data entry, where entered data are added to a centralized database once the submit button is pressed. They can be designed to automate the various aspects of clinical trials such as eligibility evaluation, data collection, and tracking specimens. They also serve as a resource site for participating sites to access trial-specific information, facilitate communication, track data queries and their resolutions, and allow administrative management of trials [28, 29]. For these reasons, they play an important role in facilitating the conduct of international clinical trials. 

Commercial software packages are available for conducting an LCA. A list of software packages, databases, and additional information on conducting an LCA are foimd at the U.S. EPA, Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory Web site http // www.epa.gov / rumrl/lcaccess / resources.html Software. 

FieldNotes user verification can be conducted by following the SOP written by Astrix, which can be downloaded from the Astrix Web site. The SOP contains a script that is typed into the computer system. If the printout matches the SOP script, then verification is complete. A record of this must be placed in the facility archive. This verification process takes 1 h or less. For FieldNotes, calculations are not verified at the field site since the manufacturer feels that the software developer and the sponsors have performed adequate validation of these calculations previously. This may, therefore, require a visit to the sponsor or to the manufacturer to confirm that this important step of the validation process has been completed and is adequately documented. By following the Astrix SOP, the user is simply ensuring that the program operates on their system(s). The SOP script must be typed in exactly as written in order to confirm the printout accuracy. QA must ensure that the verification documentation is properly archived. Just as with any other SOP, this SOP must be approved in writing by field site management to comply with GLP. 

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