BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to determine hippuric acid levels in urine samples, airborne toluene levels, acute and chronic neurological symptoms, and to describe any correlation between urinary hippuric acid and airborne toluene. METHODS The hippuric acid concentration in the urine of 87 paint workers exposed to toluene at work (exposed group), and 87 nonexposed people (control gro...

As the design of a workstation can have significant effects on user fatigue, safety and user performance, ensuring that the workstations used in any work systems are agreeable with the principles of anthropometrics have become so important. In this research, a library furniture set (table and chair for student) currently used at a Main Library, St.Maty’s Engineering College, has been evaluated....

Ensuring the facilitation students comfortable learning activities depends on couple of underlying factors and appropriate school furniture is one of the key factors. Idiosyncratically, the management of these schools could hardly pay attentions on this and have needful measure in practice due to couple of constrains like financial, technical capacities etc. As, students spend their 80% of scho...

We propose an interactive modeling framework to create 3D furniture models with interactive parts from a single image. Given a real furniture image, we first infer the potential structure of the furniture based on the labeled bounding box of each part. Then a novel interaction guided modeling algorithm is employed to make each part to be movable. With the interaction graph and user labeling, ou...

To meet the demand of online collaborative design, a Web-based Collaborative Working Environment (CWE) has been developed. An approach to enhance sustainable furniture design by utilizing the CWE is proposed. In this paper, the CWE framework is briefly presented, which consists of upperware, middleware and resource layers; then three key aspects of sustainable furniture design by utilizing the ...

Innovation is considered fundamental for the survival and sustainability of furniture manufacturers in Greece and Europe at least. The paper presents a draft summary of the techno-economic analysis of a nonincremental furniture innovation called GSF as an acronym of green and smart furniture. It regards a smart and purely ecological main entrance furniture piece with incorporated intelligent fu...

This study aimed to perform an ergonomic evaluation of industrial processes and products - upholstered sofas - produced in the furniture cluster of Ubá-MG. The used material was collected from two sofas upholstered industries associated with the union of the furniture industries of Ubá region, located in Minas Gerais estate, Brazil. As for the product were evaluated dimensionally 29 upholstered...

Founded in 1970 by Don Feckle, Hafford Furniture began as a small furniture manufacturer based out of Beaumont, Texas. Hafford originally sold office furniture to businesses in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, but, by 1978, was supplying furniture to businesses throughout the entire South. By 1980, Hafford was the third largest furniture manufacturer in the United States, supplying a variety of ...