The automotive industry is confronted with increasing competition, leading to higher cost pressures and the demand to optimize production processes and value chains. Here the RFID technology promises to improve a range of processes in logistics and manufacturing. Despite its promising potential in the automotive industry, RFID has not yet made a decisive step from pilots to real-life implementa...

divorce as a social issue in iran has experienced lots of changes during the previous decades. in the present article, these changes are investigated considering the mode of their social development. to state the diverse dimensions of changes in the social structure of divorce in iran, the theoretical “analytic- realistic” model as one of the most efficient theoretical models has been utilized ...

Significance: Optical endomicroscopy (OEM) is a novel real-time imaging technology that provides endoscopic images at a microscopic level. The nature of OEM data, as acquired in clinical use, gives rise to the presence of uninformative frames (i.e. pure-noise and motion-artefacts). Uninformative frames can comprise a considerable proportion (up to >25%) of a dataset, increasing the resources re...

word count – 248 Text word count – 2469 The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Institutes for Occupational Safety and Health. OEM Online First, published on September 22, 2009 as 10.1136/oem.2009.047126 Copyright Article author (or their employer) 2009. Produced by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd under licence. on...

The development workflow for distributed embedded system components in the automotive industry is typically characterized by a strict separation of concerns between the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and its suppliers. It is based on hardware components or Electronic Control Units (ECUs), where the OEM specifies the network layout and communication system properties before suppliers deve...

Mapping agencies world-wide produce a range of different types of maps, in efforts to meet different user requirements. These maps are usually designed in a digital environment and some of them are distributed through the World Wide Web. One important issue for those agents is the appropriate modelling and handling of map objects from which the digital maps are composed. , This paper focuses on...