BACKGROUND Patients undergoing facedown positioning have to overcome physical and psychological challenges; however, their perspective and experience are rarely documented in the research literature. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to examine the content of a self-motivated diary written by a person who underwent 77 days of facedown positioning after macular hole surgery. Her narra...

Diffuse competition due to niche overlap between actors without (direct) ties with each other, constrains their structural autonomy. This is not dealt with in Burt’s mathematical model of his well-known structural holes theory. We fix his model by introducing a network measure of niche overlap. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: L0; L1

Shot Peening process relies on multiple impacts of spherical media to a surface to achieve residual compressive stresses. This results in improved material characteristic.0utofthetwomethodd propeilingshotsforpeeningviz. Airless Shot Peening and Pneumatic Shot Peeningthis papercteals with essentials of centrifugal Blasting Machine and converting a centrifugal Airless Blast Machine to a Shot Peen...

Shot boundary detection is an important fundamental process toward automatic video indexing, retrieval, editing, etc. After a critical review of most approaches seeking to solve this problem, we propose a novel shot boundary detection. To improve the performance of the algorithm and reduce the computational cost, frames that are clearly not shot boundaries are first removed from the original vi...

Detection of shot boundaries in a video has been an active for quite a long time, t ill the TRECVID community almost declared it as a solved problem. A problem is assumed to be solved when there is no significant improvement being achieved from that of the state-of-the art methodologies. However, certain aspects can still be researched and improved. For instance, finding appropriate parameters ...

Shot peening is a complicated and expensive process and many shot peening parameters have an influence on the improvement in fatigue performance. Design of Experiment (DoE) has become a very useful tool to optimize the process by considering the greatest amount of information. With the development of computer ability, the Finite Element Method (FEM) has been widely used to simulate this dynamic...

The paper investigates the effects of collaboration networks on inventive productivity within an industrial research environment. A distinction is made between two kinds of network structures: structural holes offering information brokerage opportunities to individuals and network closures supporting co-specialization of individuals. Hypotheses regarding the effects of network positions on the ...