Southwest Wisconsin Technical College

About: Southwest Wisconsin Technical College is a education organization based out in Fennimore, Wisconsin, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Microstructure & Corrosion. The organization has 240 authors who have published 219 publications receiving 2667 citations. The organization is also known as: Southwest Tech.

System and method to authenticate users to computer systems

Abstract: A system utilizing a personal security device to provide access to a computer terminal where the personal security device includes circuitry and transceiver components for transmitting identification information and exchanging other digital information with a computer terminal and other compatible devices and the personal security device establishes a communication link with a computer terminal to allow a user to logon to the terminal so that when a user leaves the computer terminal, the communication link is terminated, causing the computer terminal to lock the keyboard, blank the monitor, and/or logoff the user if the communication link is not restored within a sufficient time period and also allowing the personal security device to facilitate subsequent computer access within a time range by providing time related access codes to the terminal that can be used to reestablish computer terminal access.

Latin Hypercube Sampling

Abstract: This chapter discusses the use of computer models for such diverse applications as safety assessments for geologic isolation of radioactive waste and for nuclear power plants; loss cost projections for hurricanes; reliability analyses for manufacturing equipment; transmission of HIV; and subsurface storm flow modelling. Such models are usually characterized by a large number of input variables (perhaps as many as a few hundred), and usually, only a handful of these inputs are important for a given response. In addition, the model response is frequently multivariate and time dependent. Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) uses a stratified sampling scheme to improve on the coverage of the k-dimensional input space for such computer models. This means that a single sample will provide useful information when some input variable(s) dominate certain responses (or certain time intervals), while other input variables dominate other responses (or time intervals). By sampling over the entire range, each variable has the opportunity to show up as important, if it indeed is important. If an input variable is not important, then the method of sampling is of little or no concern. The values of the stratified sampling scheme can be paired to ensure a desired correlation structure among the k input variables. LHS is more efficient than simple random sampling in a large range of conditions. Keywords: Latin hypercube sampling; uncertainty analysis; sensitivity analysis; rank correlation; hurricane loss projection; uncertainty importance

Interactive medication dispensing machine

Abstract: This invention relates to an interactive medication cassette with a machine readable and writable information strip that contains information corresponding to the medication in the cassette. The cassette is designed for use in a medication distribution and inventory system that includes at least one medication dispensing machine having a sensor for reading the information in the strip and updating or altering this information when medication is added to or removed from the cassette. The cassette is filled by a dispensing machine that counts the quantity of medication added to the cassette. The information strip is altered by the dispenser to include medication and quantity information corresponding to the dispensed medication. The cassette is also for use with a dispensing machine that dispenses the medication from the cassette, and updates the information strip with additional information including the quantity of medication dispensed from the cassette.

Interactive medication container labeling

Abstract: This invention relates to the dispensing, creation, and selecting of memory devices that are used with interactive medication containers, dispensers, reminders, or consoles that hold or otherwise organize one or more medication vials or containers. The memory device is attached or adhered to a medication container or vial and has information corresponding to medication and prescription information. The memory device can be prepared when a standard medication label is printed by a pharmacist and can be part of the standard printed label. In other instances the memory device is separate from the medication label. When separate, the memory device has a printed section that identifies the dosing schedule or medication name that corresponds to the reminder schedule the memory device is associated with. The pharmacist or the customer/patient can match the text printed on the memory device with the text of the medical container label to ensure the memory device is only attached to the correct medication container.

Latin Hypercube Sampling

Abstract: This entry discusses the use of computer models for such diverse applications as safety assessments for geologic isolation of radioactive waste and for nuclear power plants; loss cost projections for hurricanes; reliability analyses for manufacturing equipment; transmission of HIV; and subsurface storm flow modelling. Such models are usually characterized by a large number of input variables (perhaps as many as a few hundred), and usually, only a handful of these inputs are important for a given response. In addition, the model response is frequently multivariate and time dependent. Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) uses a stratified sampling scheme to improve on the coverage of the k-dimensional input space for such computer models. This means that a single sample will provide useful information when some input variable(s) dominate certain responses (or certain time intervals), while other input variables dominate other responses (or time intervals). By sampling over the entire range, each variable has the opportunity to show up as important, if it indeed is important. If an input variable is not important, then the method of sampling is of little or no concern. The values of the stratified sampling scheme can be paired to ensure a desired correlation structure among the k input variables. LHS is more efficient than simple random sampling in a large range of conditions. Keywords: Latin hypercube sampling; uncertainty analysis; sensitivity analysis; rank correlation; hurricane loss projection; uncertainty importance