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Occupational Health and Safety Dimensions and Work Outcomes in the Mental Hospitals in Ghana: The Moderating Effect of Job Satisfaction
Like high risk industries such as aviation and mining, occupational health and safety issues in the mental hospitals cannot be underestimated. For instance, although some conceptual and empirical studies have ...
Michael Asiedu Gyensare, Olivia Anku-Tsede… in Advances in Safety Management and Human Fa… (2018)
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Effectiveness of S-FRCM Strengthening System Applied with Two Different Techniques
The work aims to investigate the structural performance of Reinforced Concrete (RC) beams strengthened with an innovative system made of stainless steel fibre strips embedded into an inorganic matrix (S-FRCM:...
Francesco Bencardino, Antonio Condello in High Tech Concrete: Where Technology and E… (2018)
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Flexible Service Provision in Context-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems
Cyber-Physical Systems have emerged in recent years as a new technological revolution to support a collection of devices in the execution of physical processes. In mobility scenarios the execution context is ...
Ramón Alcarria, Borja Bordel, Antonio Jara in Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in… (2018)
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Teaching Students the Basics of Control Theory Using NI ELVIS II
This paper describes a remote lab, currently available on the Department of Control Systems and Computer Science in ITMO University. The remote lab allows students with disabilities to gain knowledge in Electr...
Dmitrii Dobriborsci, Dmitry Bazylev, Alexey Margun in Smart Education and e-Learning 2017 (2018)
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Consensus in Multiperson Decision Making Using Fuzzy Coalitions
We consider the problem of group decisions, in which decision-makers have different opinions or interests. This study proposes various metric spaces for representing the movements of decision-makers for reachi...
Fabrizio Maturo, Viviana Ventre in Soft Computing Applications for Group Deci… (2018)
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Software in a Hardware View
In current practices of SoC design a trend can be observed to integrate more and more low-level software components into the hardware at different levels of granularity. The implementation of important control...
Carlos Villarraga, Dominik Stoffel, Wolfgang Kunz in Formal System Verification (2018)
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Automatic Movement Detection Using Mobile Phones
Context aware systems enable interaction between users and their environment in a way that is transparent. Network systems are deployed in these systems in order to collect values from the environment and late...
Ayaka Hatori in Trends in Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Syste… (2018)
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Assessment of Tomography Models of Taiwan Using First-Arrival Times from the TAIGER Active-Source Experiment
In 2008, the TAIGER project conducted an active-source experiment in which seismic records from 10 explosions were collected at nearly 1400 locations on the island of Taiwan. In this study, we manually pick th...
Yu-Pin Lin in Isotropic and Anisotropic Seismic Tomograp… (2018)
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Pure Nonlinear Oscillator
In this Chapter the pure nonlinear oscillator with pure nonlinearity of any rational order is considered.
Livija Cveticanin in Strong Nonlinear Oscillators (2018)
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Dynamic Stresses in Embankment and Ground Caused by HST with the Considering of Track Irregularity
Scientific design of a railway track formation requires an understanding of the dynamic stresses in embankment and ground. To study the dynamic stress, the time-history of stress, and the stress development wi...
Jing Hu, Xiang Duan, Xuecheng Bian… in Environmental Vibrations and Transportatio… (2018)
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A New Simple Preprocessing Method for MUSIC Suitable for Non-contact Vital Sensing Using Doppler Sensors
Non-contact vital sensing using Doppler sensor is emerging along with interests on its application as a means for monitoring patients in hospitals or the elderly living in home alone. We already proposed a sig...
Yukihiro Kamiya in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services 2017 (2018)
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Supply Chain Coordination by Revenue Sharing Contract Under Different Carbon Emission Policies
To solve the problem of global warming, governments have carried out some corresponding policies to reduce carbon emissions. In this paper, we considered a two-echelon supply chain consisting of a supplier and...
Li Lu in Proceedings of the Eleventh International … (2018)
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Öffentliche Wissenschaft
Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird die Entwicklung der institutionellen Wissensvermittlung seit den 1960erJahren bis in die Gegenwart mit einem Fokus auf die Öffentliche Wissenschaft und die Wissenschaftskommunikati...
Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha… in Öffentliche Gesellschaftswissenschaften (2018)
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Radon Transform Based Automatic Posture Recognition in Ballet Dance
The proposed system aims at automatic identification of an unknown dance posture referring to the twenty primitive postures of ballet, simultaneously measuring the proximity of an unknown dance posture to a kn...
Amit Konar, Sriparna Saha in Gesture Recognition (2018)
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Process of Mobile Application Development from the Security Perspective
Recent tendencies in the field of application development indicate the more and more significant role which mobile applications fulfill in everyday live of the rapidly growing number of smartphone users. Deve...
Aneta Majchrzycka, Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda in Advances in Dependability Engineering of C… (2018)
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Eye Movement Analysis of Japanese Sewing Scissors Craftsman
The purpose of this study is to elucidate the skill of a blacksmith who has an ability to produce a pair of scissors whose two blades accurately comes across in the length, width and angle of each blade, even ...
Yasuko Kitajima, Hayato Nakatani… in Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human … (2018)
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A Study of the Knowledge, Attitude, Behaviour and Practices Pertaining to the Safety of Public School Children Among School Van Drivers in the 5 Towns of the Republic of Mauritius
Travelling to any educational institutions in the Republic of Mauritius is a free service provided by the government, but because of hectic lifestyles of parents and heavy traffic congestions, many parents ava...
S. D. Lukea-Bhiwajee, P. Ramseook-Munurrun in Advances in Safety Management and Human Fa… (2018)
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A Device Status Visualization System Based on Mobile Markerless AR Technology
In order to effectively manage computer and network infrastructure, administrators need to appropriately understand the latest state of the whole system. When managing new servers and communication equipment, ...
Toshiyuki Haramaki, Hiroaki Nishino in Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (2018)
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Objectives and Research Methodology
Our main aim is to analyze the thought of Chester Barnard on the creation and maintenance of a cooperative system, the executive process, and the function of leadership, and to examine its relevance for modern...
Stefania Zanda in Building Efficient Management and Leadership Practices (2018)
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Philosophie im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert: Intersubjektivität als Maßstab
Die erneute Auseinandersetzung um die Leitwissenschaft hat die Philosophie zu Beginn des Jahrhunderts verloren, sie kann und will kein geschlossenes Dach mehr anbieten. Die Naturwissenschaften haben ihr den Ra...
Heiko Reisch in Kleine Geschichte der Philosophie (2018)