1 Department of Furniture and Decoration Education, Dumlupinar University, 43500 Simav-Kutahya, Turkey. 2 Department of Furniture and Decoration, Giresun University, Giresun Vocational School, 28048, Giresun-Turkey. 3 Department of Furniture and Decoration, Artvin Coruh University, Artvin Vocational School, 08000, Artvin-Turkey. 4 Department of Forest Industrial Engineering, Artvin Coruh Univer...

background: in our competing educational world, students spend a considerable part of their daily life, studying at library furniture. not surprisingly, due to lack of proper anthropometric databases, these products have typically been ill fitted for the intended user populations. objective: to verify the optimum anthropometric match of library furniture within an academic environment, through ...

Rearranging furniture in elementary school classrooms encourages classroom activities. In elementary schools in Indonesia and some other developing countries, usually only one style of furniture is used for all children, and the furniture is heavy and oversized for younger children. This affects their ability to carry it. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of elementary s...

Classical scrapie is an environmentally transmissible prion disease of sheep and goats. Prions can persist and remain potentially infectious in the environment for many years and thus pose a risk of infecting animals after re-stocking. In vitro studies using serial protein misfolding cyclic amplification (sPMCA) have suggested that objects on a scrapie-affected sheep farm could contribute to di...

In this paper, a modeling method to handle furniture is proposed. In real environment, there is a lot of furniture such as drawer, cabinet and so on. If mobile robots can handle these furniture autonomously, it is expected that multiple daily tasks, for example, storing a small object in a drawer, can be performed by the robots. However, it is a perplexing process to give several pieces of know...