This paper aims to simplify the continuity conditions of Bézier curves. For this purpose, a special family of Bézier curves with three parameters, to be called adjustable Bézier curves, is constructed. They have the same structure as the quartic Bézier curves. The newly constructed curves possess some of the basic properties of Bézier curves, such as the convex hull property, symmetry, geometri...

Touch-screen tablets are becoming increasingly popular as office work tools. However, as current health and safety regulations applied to office equipment do not cover tablets, the importance of understanding their impact on the posture of office workers increases. As the research on ergonomic issues related to tablet use is scarce, especially in the context of office work, we explore, through ...

Occupant packaging practice relies on statistical models codified in SAE practices, such as the SAE J941 eyellipse, and virtual human figure models representing individual occupants. The current packaging approach provides good solutions when the problem is relatively unconstrained, but achieving good results when many constraints are active, such as restricted headroom and sightlines, requires...

Hydrophilic nanotubes formed by lipid molecules have potential applications as platforms for chemical or biological events occurring in an attolitre volume inside a hollow cylinder. Here, we have integrated the lipid nanotubes (LNTs) by applying an AC electric field via plug-in electrode needles placed above a substrate. The off-chip assembly method has the on-demand adjustability of an electro...

The aim of this article is to compare two neural classifiers applied to micro component recognition. These micro components can be used for the automation of production and assembly processes of solar concentrators. The image databases have been developed and include mixed and heaped-up micro work pieces. Two neural classifiers, the limited receptive area classifier (LIRA) and the permutation c...

Camera-based document image retrieval is a task of searching document images from the database based on query images captured using digital cameras. For this task, it is required to solve the problem of “perspective distortion” of images, as well as to establish a way of matching document images efficiently. To solve these problems we have proposed a method called Locally Likely Arrangement Has...

RSM is a replacement sensor model that replaces with high fidelity all aspects of the original sensor model for virtually all imaging sensors. This includes the ground-to-image relationship, adjustability, and rigorous error propagation. RSM can do so for both satellite and airborne platforms as well as for different sensor modalities (optical and SAR). This paper provides a general introductio...

In this work, we designed a narrow-band filter based on one-dimensional photonic crystal heterostructure featuring an angle-adjustable single-channel. The design presented here is quarter-wave reflector with mirror defect layer in the middle of structure. By combining two defective crystals (PCs), obtained which sub-PCs had wavelengths their modes, that is, same at one incident angle and differ...

Gasification of biomass can yield synthesis gas for power generation. A problem is the poor adjustability to changes in load. To improve dynamics, integration a hydrogen storage system based on liquid organic carriers has been evaluated. Coupled with gasification unit, it remove from gas. If demand high, dehydrogenation releases increase energy content mixture. The proposed concept discussed re...

Vibration control of composite structures coupled with distributed masses under random excitations is a significant issue. In this paper, partial and ordinary differential coupling equations are obtained from periodic sandwich plate supported excitation. An analytical solution to the proposed, stochastic response adjustability system various distributions geometrical physical parameters studied...