In the event of an emergency due to a fire or other crisis, a necessary but time consuming pre-requisite, that could delay the real rescue operation, is to establish whether the ground or area can be entered safely by human emergency workers. The objective of the VIEW-FINDER project is to develop robots which have the primary task of gathering data. The robots are equipped with sensors that det...

The largest two-shaft gas turbine in the United States has been operated in combined cycle service at the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company Horseshoe Lake Station since May 1963. The same design unit has been operated in peaking and stand-by service at Public Service Electric and Gas (Essex, N. J.) station since December 1963. The 0.G & E. unit has a NEMA rating of 25 Mw base load. The PSEG uni...

Emotions and Sentiment Analysis has had an important role in increasing business benefits on commerce sector. Emotions Analysis as well as Sentiment Analysis is a common machine learning technique used to analyze opinions of people about certain company aspects such as products image, product consumption, marketing campaigns, client's preferences and social or political movements. The relevance...

Changes in ventilatory capacity during the work shift were studied in workers exposed to tea dust in tea-packing plants, wood dust in two furniture factories, and virtually no dust in an inoperational power station. The FEV1 and FVC in workers exposed to dust were found to decline during the work shift by a small but significant volume. The MMFR, Vmax 50% and Vmax 75% were to variable to displa...

BACKGROUND U.S. natural gas production increased 40% from 2000 to 2015. This growth is largely related to technological advances in horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Environmental exposures upon impacted communities are a significant public health concern. Noise associated with natural gas compressor stations has been identified as a major concern for nearby residents, t...

We study the problem of dynamically allocating flexible workers to stations in tandem or serial manufacturing systems. Workers are trained to do a subset of consecutive tasks. We show that the optimal policy is often LBFS (last buffer first-served) or FBFS (first buffer first-served). These results generalize earlier results on the optimality of the pickand-run, expedite, and bucket brigade-typ...

Consider a production system that consists of m assembly stations arranged in series. All jobs enter the assembly line at station 1 and proceed with subsequent stations in the same order as in a ßow shop. Each job spends a Þxed amount of time c in each station, known as the production cycle. This production system is synchronous or paced because jobs move one station forward synchronously, ever...

Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is the 4th most common malignancy in Indonesia, after breast, cervical and lung cancer. The risk factors for this are Epstein-Barr virus, gender, race, adult age 30-50 years, family history, drinking alcohol smoking. prevalence of NPC Indonesia 6.2/100,000, with nearly 13,000 new cases, but a small proportion that has been documented. Adham et al (2012) reported head...