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A Background on Utilities and Maintenance Management
2012The expression “public utility” or “utility”, first used in 1903, is defined by Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition (http://www.merriam-webster.com), as “a business organization performing a public service and subject to special governmental regulation”. In the same manner, the Encyclopaedia Britannica (http://www.britannica.com)
Juan F. Gómez Fernández +1 more
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Adaptive maintenance scheme for codebook-based dynamic background subtraction
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2016An adaptive maintenance scheme for the codebook-based background subtraction algorithm is proposed.We develop an equal-qualification updating strategy to replace the maximum-negative-run-length-based filtering strategy.We substitute the cache-based foreground learning process with a random updating scheme.In the modified framework, parameters that are ...
Zhi Zeng +3 more
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Clinical and Experimental Nephrology, 2021
Some pediatric patients on maintenance dialysis may need end-of-life care in the future because of being excluded from the indication of kidney transplantation and experiencing difficulty in continuation of their dialysis. This study aimed to thoroughly elucidate mortality outcomes of children on maintenance dialysis including the cause of death and ...
Satoshi Hibino +5 more
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Some pediatric patients on maintenance dialysis may need end-of-life care in the future because of being excluded from the indication of kidney transplantation and experiencing difficulty in continuation of their dialysis. This study aimed to thoroughly elucidate mortality outcomes of children on maintenance dialysis including the cause of death and ...
Satoshi Hibino +5 more
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Maintenance proficiency assessment: background and overview
Conference Record for 1992 Fifth Conference on Human Factors and Power Plants, 1992Valid assessment of the skills and knowledge of individual maintenance personnel is critical for the efficient and safe performance of maintenance tasks in nuclear power plants. A brief overview of an Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) research project to develop, evaluate and effect technology transfer of a methodology to assess maintenance ...
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Foreground Object Detection Based on Multi-model Background Maintenance
Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Workshops (ISMW 2007), 2007This paper addresses the problem of background maintenance for foreground object detection. A Multi- model Background Maintenance (MBM) framework that contains two principal features is proposed. Under this framework, a pure time-varying background image is maintained and learned using the statistical information of the multi-model Gaussian ...
Tsung-Han Tsai +2 more
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Face Recognition in Complex Background: Developmental Network and Synapse Maintenance
International Journal of Smart Home, 2015As an important sub-field in computer vision and pattern recognition, face recognition has important theoretical and practical application. It is a very complicated problem which is often affected by variations in illumination condition, head pose, facial emotions, glasses, beards, and so on.
Dongshu Wang, Lei Liu
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Robust background maintenance by estimating global intensity level changes for dynamic scenes
Intelligent Service Robotics, 2009The maintenance of relevant backgrounds under various scene changes is very crucial to detect foregrounds robustly. We propose a background maintenance method for dynamic scenes including global intensity level changes caused by changes of illumination conditions and camera settings.
Hwang, Y. +4 more
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Language maintenance and identity among Sudanese-Australian refugee-background youth
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009This paper reports the results of a sociolinguistic survey-based study of the Sudanese community in a regional settlement in Australia. The context of this study represents a distinctive language contact setting with a unique combination of social, cultural and demographic factors. The study aimed to explore attitudes, perceptions and the actual use of
Hatoss, Aniko, Sheely, Terry
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Sustainability: Orientation in Maintenance Management—Theoretical Background
2012New concepts and approaches to corporate management, such as Lean Manufacturing, new challenges connected with natural resources management (Green Manufacturing), and thinking in a sustainable way (Sustainable Manufacturing) resulted in developing new approach to maintenance management as well.
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A robust moving object segmentation algorithm using integrated mask-based background maintenance
2012 3rd IEEE International Conference on Network Infrastructure and Digital Content, 2012In this paper a novel moving object segmentation algorithm is proposed. This algorithm utilizes an integrated mask-based background (BG) maintenance scheme. A rough foreground (FG) mask and a block-based FG mask are integrated by an OR operation to give the final update mask.
Yuyang Chen, Yanyun Zhao, Anni Cai
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