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A Visual Servoing Scheme for Autonomous Aquaculture Net Pens Inspection Using ROV

open access: yesSensors, 2022
Aquaculture net pens inspection and monitoring are important to ensure net stability and fish health in the fish farms. Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) offer a low-cost and sophisticated solution for the regular inspection of the underwater fish net ...
Waseem Akram   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pipeline In-Line Inspection Method, Instrumentation and Data Management

open access: yesItalian National Conference on Sensors, 2021
Pipelines play an important role in the national/international transportation of natural gas, petroleum products, and other energy resources. Pipelines are set up in different environments and consequently suffer various damage challenges, such as ...
Q. Ma   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Optimal design for inspection and maintenance policy based on the CCC chart [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper, the concept of cumulative count of conforming chart (CCC chart) is applied in inspection and maintenance planning for systems where minor inspection, major inspection, minor maintenance and major maintenance are available.
Chan, Ling-Yau, Wu, Shaomin
core   +2 more sources

Damage Assessment of Pine Wood Facades in the First Years of Service for Sustainable Maintenance

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
The importance of the sustainability of wood buildings is increasing. The renewed attention highlights the need to assess the wood deterioration accurately, in the initial years of service, to optimize treatment during its lifetime and reduce maintenance
Joana Oliveira Almeida   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defect Inspection Techniques in SiC

open access: yesNanoscale Research Letters, 2022
With the increasing demand of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices that outperform the silicon-based devices, high cost and low yield of SiC manufacturing process are the most urgent issues yet to be solved.
Po-Chih Chen   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Special Interest Group: Regulating and inspecting integrated care

open access: yesInternational Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Introduction: Integrated health and social care is at present part of the health and social care delivery model in many countries, and developing in others.
Heleen Buijze   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regulating the Audit Quality and Deprofessionalisation of the Auditing Profession

open access: yesAsian Journal of Accounting Perspectives, 2014
There has been considerable criticism of the auditing profession from the public following a series of corporate failures. Consequently, this has led to reform in the auditing regulatory framework.
Noor Adwa Sulaiman   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

The inspection paradox in stochastic resetting [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2021
The remaining travel time of a plane shortens with every minute that passes from its departure, and a flame diminishes a candle with every second it burns. Such everyday occurrences bias us to think that processes which have already begun will end before
Arnab K. Pal, S. Kostinski, S. Reuveni
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Application of NDT thermographic imaging of aerospace structures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This work aims to address the effectiveness and challenges of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) inspection and improve the detection of defects without causing damage to the material or operator.
Avdelidis, N. P.   +9 more
core   +2 more sources

Inspection and market-based regulation through emissions trading <br> The striking reliance on self-monitoring, self-reporting and verification

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2006
This contribution discusses inspection with regard to emissions trading. It focuses on the EU greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme. The core rule of emissions trading is that industries need to cover their emissions with tradable emission rights ...
Marjan Peeters
doaj   +1 more source

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