To reduce the incidence of occupational musculoskeletal disorders, back-support exoskeletons are being introduced to assist manual material handling activities.
Maria Lazzaroni +9 more
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System for automatically preventing the raising of ash from dedicated landfills [PDF]
The paper presents a system for automatic prevention of raising of ashes from dedicated landfills based on a simple mathematical model which has modest entry requirements for meteorological data.
Milutinović Predrag +5 more
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Design and Study of a Stair Climbing Robots with Two Wheels and a “4R+2P” Pattern
Aimed at the current major problems of “slipping, misstep and misplace” in the robot stair climbing process and at reaching the goals of being “flexible, adaptive and stable” in multiple scenarios, a two-wheeled robot with a “4R+2P” pattern that can ...
Guanwu Wu +6 more
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Lifting and Lowering of Salvage Frame for Integral Salvage of Large Tonnage Wreck
A wreck salvage scheme is designed for the integral salvage of “Yangtze River Estuary II” ancient ship, using the curved beam system to implement salvage. Before formally threading the curved beam, the end plate longitudinal beam assembly (salvage frame)
WEI Liangmeng, ZHU Xiaodong, YI Qian, CUI Jin, ZHOU Dongrong
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Background: Osteoarthritis of the knee is considered to be related to knee straining activities at work. The objective of this review is to assess the exposure dose-response relation between kneeling or squatting, lifting, and climbing stairs at work ...
Jos Verbeek +7 more
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Evaluation of MEMS Structures with Directional Characteristics Based on FRAT and Lifting Wavelet [PDF]
Steps and grooves, which have typical directional characteristic, are two main functional structures of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems). This paper proposes a method for analysis and evaluation of MEMS steps and grooves based on finite radon ...
Li, Tukun +6 more
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Chemical enhancement of footwear impressions in blood deposited on fabric - Evaluating the use of alginate casting materials followed by chemical enhancement [PDF]
Most footwear marks made in blood on a surface such as fabric tend to be enhanced in situ rather than physically recovered using a lifting technique prior to enhancement.
NicDaeid, N. +4 more
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A computational study of a lifting wing in close proximity to a moving ground plane [PDF]
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-96).Commercial software packages Fluent® and Gambit® were used to develop a 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model to determine the aerodynamic characteristics of a DHMTU lifting wing ...
Smuts, Evan M
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Multi-view image coding with wavelet lifting and in-band disparity compensation [PDF]
This paper presents a novel framework to achieve scalable multi-view image coding. As open loop operation, the wavelet lifting scheme for geometric filtering has been exploited to overcome the limitation of SNR scalability and to attain view scalability.
Anantrasirichai, N +5 more
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Multiresolution analysis over simple graphs for brain computer interfaces [PDF]
Objective. Multiresolution analysis (MRA) offers a useful framework for signal analysis in the temporal and spectral domains, although commonly employed MRA methods may not be the best approach for brain computer interface (BCI) applications.
Palaniappan, R +4 more
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