To build software which, at the press of a button, can tell you what cognition related hazards there are within an environment or a task, is probably well into the future if it is possible at all. However, incorporating existing tools such as task analysis tools, interface design guidelines and information about general cognitive limitations in humans, could allow for greater evaluative options...

The growing number of musculoskeletal disorders in industry could be addressed by the use of collaborative robots, which allow the joint manipulation of objects by both a robot and a person. Designing these robots requires to assess the ergonomic benefit they offer. Current methods use a posteriori assessment, i.e. observation of a worker performing the task, and require a physical mock-up of t...

Vegetation coverage is very important in terrestrial ecosystems and climate systems. However, the observational record of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), which started 1980s when satellites became widely used, too short to investigate history variation beyond modern observation period. Here, we present a 189 y series based on total 349 Mongolian pine (Pinus sylvestris var. mongol...

The review article discusses the current data on mechanisms of hypersensitivity drugs reactions (HDRs). relevance problem is associated with a significant prevalence adverse drug reactions, in structure which immune allergic occupy proportion. Adverse according to literature, occur 10-20% hospitalized patients and about 25% outpatients. A serious HDRs their overdiagnosis, affects results indivi...

In this paper, the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems are investigated with picture 2-tuple linguistic information. Then, based on Hamy mean (HM) operator and dual (DHM) operator, power average geometric operations utilized to develop some aggregation operators: weighted (P2TLPWHM) (P2TLPWDHM) ordered (P2TLPOWHM) (P2TLPOWDHM) hybrid (P2TLPHHM) (P2TLPHDHM) operator. The prominent...

This paper concerns the development of a computer-aided platform to analyse workers’ postures and movements and ergonomically validate the design of device or the condition a man or woman may deal with. In particular, we refer to two different applications: pick and place operations of food items on a display unit and gait analysis. The paper describes two low-cost solutions that integrate two ...

Blue Angelonia × angustifolia flowers can show spontaneous mutations resulting in white/blue and white flower colourations. In such a white line, a loss of dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR) activity was observed whereas chalcone synthase and flavanone 3-hydroxylase activity remained unchanged. Thus, cloning and characterization of a DFR of Angelonia flowers was carried out for the first time. T...