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Automatic defect detection in leather

, 2022
Esta dissertação desenvolve-se em torno do problema da deteção de defeitos em couro. A deteção de defeitos em couro é um problema tradicionalmente resolvido manualmente, usando avaliadores ex perientes na inspeção do couro. No entanto, como esta tarefa é lenta e suscetível ao erro humano, ao longo dos últimos 20 anos tem-se procurado soluções que ...
openaire   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud, Hervé Monchot, Vladimir Dabrowski, Charlène Bouchaud, Jérémie Schiettecatte   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collagen as a Potential Biomaterial in Biomedical Applications

Reviews on Advanced Materials Science, 2018
Collagen, a biopolymer finds its application in the preparation of pharmaceutical products that are used in wound management, ophthalmic, orthopaedic and oral surgeries.
Muthukumar T., Sreekumar G., Sastry T.P., Chamundeeswari M.   +3 more
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The Intriguing History of Gloves and Their Application to Surgery

ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Gloves were first worn to protect against cold and injury. In surgery, their purpose now is to reduce surgical site infection and blood‐borne transmission of disease. Surprisingly, their adoption in surgery as a routine has been remarkably recent and had a bizarre origin.
Spencer W. Beasley
wiley   +1 more source

Susceptibility to DNA damage in workers occupationally exposed to pesticides, to tannery chemicals and to coal dust during mining

Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2012
Our mutagenesis group has been studying with important economic drivers of our state, such as agriculture, the footwear and leather industry and open-cast coal mining. Working conditions in these sectors have potentially harmful to humans.
Katia Kvitko, Eliane Bandinelli, João A.P. Henriques, Vanina D. Heuser, Paula Rohr, Fernanda R. da Silva, Naye Balzan Schneider, Simone Fernandes, Camile Ancines, Juliana da Silva   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich, M. Levy, O. Avrahami, D. Samuel, D. Lischinski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oral collagen-based supplement as a bioactive component in functional foods

Collagen and Leather
Collagen, an abundant extracellular matrix protein in food-producing animals, is widely integrated into food systems for its unique physicochemical properties.
Yue Wu, Siqi Deng, Wenqi Wei, Yuanmeng He, Yunxiang He, Gonghua Hong, Yanbin Zheng, Linli Han, Yifei Li, Yimin Hua, Junling Guo   +10 more
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Skills‐to‐Job Mismatches

New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A pervasive discourse calls for worker upskilling amid ongoing digital transformation. This study introduces a skills‐to‐job mismatch perspective into research on the digital transformation of work by conceptualising technological adoption as a process that reshapes the relationship between workers’ skill endowments and evolving job ...
Ana Santiago‐Vela
wiley   +1 more source

An Apple and Acáchul Berry Snack Rich in Bioaccessible Antioxidants and Folic Acid: A Healthy Alternative for Prenatal Diets

Foods
A fruit leather (apple and acáchul berry) oriented toward women of reproductive age was developed. The snack was supplemented with an ingredient composed of folic acid (FA) and whey proteins (WPI) to ensure the required vitamin intake to prevent fetal ...
Rocío Corfield, Mariana C. Allievi, Roy Rivero, Tamara A. López, Oscar E. Pérez, Daniela Salvatori, Carolina Schebor   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source