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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interaction of Polymer Flexible Joint with Concrete Elements in an Uniaxial Tensile Test
New generation materials are more commonly applied in civil engineering as they allow designing structures in much more demanding conditions. New and effective materials for application in civil engineering ar...
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The Effects of a Combined Hip Flexion and Pelvis Movement Intervention on Postural Stability, Spinal Loading and Lumbar Flexion When Reaching and Lifting
Poor balance (instability) and flexing the lumbar spine towards end range of motion are risk factors associated with low back injury. One method used by educators to improve stability and lumbar posture when r...
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Assessment of the Students’ Expectations and Perception Regarding the Development of the Competences in Industrial Engineering Course
The challenges of higher education institutions in analyzing the development of egress skills during undergraduate course become more important in preparing for the job market. Applying assessments that charac...
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Tips Service and Water Diary An Innovative Decision Support System for the Efficient Water Usage at Households
In the paper, we present the tips service and water diary, which are the modules of the mobile decision support system (DSS) for the efficient water usage at households. This system is a part of the Integrated...
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Steel-Concrete Composite Flat Arch Bridge
As part of a new University Campus development in the city of Northampton (UK), a new road access bridge was required to span over the river Nene. The client’s aspirations and the planning requirements were se...
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A Co-evolute Approach to Analyze the Competencies of Sales Personnel of Banking Sector of Pakistan
The banking sector of Pakistan is playing a pivotal role in the economy of country. Over the last two decades, private banks have progressed rapidly. It resulted into highly competitive environment in the sec...
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HEI Quality Culture in Poland – Multi-paradigm View
This paper sets out to analyse the concept of the multitudes of quality cultures of Higher Education Institutions. The paper describes proposals for a model of a multi-paradigm analysis of cultures at univers...
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Managerial Decisions Modelling for the Company Development Strategy
In this paper we investigate the subject of strategies development by Russian companies through the managerial decision modelling. In the traditional economic model it is assumed that the company exists in or...
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Usability Test in Different Types of Control-Authority Allocations for Multi-Operator Single-Robot System OCTOPUS
Four-arm four-flipper disaster response robot called OCTOPUS, which has 26 degrees of freedom (DOF), has been developed to engage in complex disaster response work. OCTOPUS adopts a multi-operator single-robo...
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A Neural Network Model of Peripersonal Space Representation Around Different Body Parts
The Peripersonal Space (PPS), the space immediately surrounding the body, is coded in a multisensory, body part-centered (e.g hand-centered, trunk-centered), modular fashion. This coding is ascribed to multise...
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Building Real-Time Travel Itineraries Using ‘off-the-shelf’ Data from the Web
Existing travel related systems and commonly used websites have some major limitations which cause efforts to be made by the traveler before going out on vacation. Some of these sites allow users to write thei...
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Design and Implementation of High Speed VLSI Architecture of Online Clustering Algorithm for Image Analysis
A novel architecture for computing On-line clustering using moving average method for handling varied dimension data up to eight is proposed. The architecture proposed can perform clustering operation in a sin...
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An Improved Method for Text Segmentation and Skew Normalization of Handwriting Image
This paper proposed an off-line cursive handwriting segmentation method and an efficient skew normalization process of the handwritten document. The proposed segmentation method based on horizontal and vertica...
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Towards Universal Haptic Library: Library-Based Haptic Texture Assignment Using Image Texture and Perceptual Space
In this study we focused on building a universal haptic texture models library. This library is used to automatically assign haptic texture models to any given surface based on image features. The library is b...
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Low-Field NMR Relaxation Times Distributions and Their Magnetic Field Dependence as a Possible Biomarker in Cartilage
The dependence of the proton NMR relaxation times on field strength and on location within the tissue has been determined for a number of bovine and human articular cartilage samples. While the strong variatio...
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From Healthcare to Human-Computer Interaction: Using Framework Analysis Within Qualitative Inquiry
One of the primary methods used by healthcare researchers following qualitative inquiry is framework analysis. The method lends itself to revealing patterns within a matrix, which can be easier than attemptin...
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Evaluation of Digital Image Watermarking Techniques
In digital image watermarking, selecting an appropriate domain for hiding the watermark according to application is a very important issue, since it directly affects on the performance of the watermarking sche...
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On the Distribution of Shear Forces in Non-axisymmetric Slab-Column Connections
The majority of punching tests, based on which the provisions for slab-column connections in design codes are developed, were performed on symmetric test specimens where the support reaction was centric with ...
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A Roadmap for Agility Estimation and Method Selection for Secure Agile Development Using AHP and ANN
The modern software industry is expected to provide fast software delivery and because of dynamic environment the customer requirements changes very rapidly, which has lead to inclination towards agile develop...
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Comparative Analysis of 1-D HMM and 2-D HMM for Hand Motion Recognition Applications
Hand motion recognition is an interesting field in the development of virtual reality applications through the human–computer interface. The stochastic mathematical model hidden Markov model (HMM) is used in t...
