It might be assumed that increasing the thickness of a glove would reduce the vibration transmitted to the hand. Three material samples from an anti-vibration glove were stacked to produce three thicknesses: 6.4, 12.8 and 19.2 mm. The dynamic stiffnesses of all three thicknesses, the apparent mass at the palm and the finger and the transmission of vibration to the palm and finger were measured....

This paper proposes a Biometric identification system for person identification using two biometric traits hand geometry and palm print. The hand image captured from digital camera is preprocessed to identify key points on palm region of hand. Identified key points are used to find hand geometry feature and palm print Region of interest (ROI). The discriminative palm print features are extracte...

Oil palm production has led to large losses of valuable habitats for tropical biodiversity. Sparing of land for nature could in theory be attained if oil palm yields increased. The efficiency of oil palm smallholders is below its potential capacity, but the factors determining efficiency are poorly understood. We employed a two-stage data envelopment analysis approach to assess the influence of...

In this paper, we have proposed a system based on KL Transform to recognize different hand gestures. The system consists of five steps: skin filtering, palm cropping, edge detection, feature extraction, and classification. Firstly the hand is detected using skin filtering and palm cropping was performed to extract out only the palm portion of the hand. The extracted image was then processed usi...

The existing palm-print verification schemes have demonstrated good verification performance when identity claims have to be verified based on palm-print images of adequate quality (e.g., acquired in controlled illumination conditions, free from distortions caused by the pressure applied to the surface of the scanner, etc.). However, most of these schemes struggle with their verification perfor...

As our lists of well-monitored species worldwide show increasing numbers of those in decline and under threat, it is a treat for researchers to learn of the discovery of a new species — even more so when it is large, showy and appears to be quite distinct from its nearest known relatives. That was the news last month when researchers reported a new species of palm in Madagascar. It was so disti...

Roasting is the most common way for pistachio nuts processing, and the purpose of that was to increase the products total acceptability. Purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of temperature (90, 120 and 150°C), time (20, 35 and 50 min), and roasting air velocity (0.5, 1.5 and 2.5 m/s) on geometrical attributes of pistachio nuts and kernels including principle dimensions, shape fac...

The purpose of this research was identifying factors affecting the development of processing and complementary industries of date palm in Khouzestan province. The method of research was causal comparative. The population of this research was managers in processing and complementary industries of date palm products of Khouzestan province (N=100). The return rate was 94% (N=94). By census method...

Introduction: Allergic rhinitis and asthma can be related to occupation. The present study aimed to investigate the correlation between asthma or allergic rhinitis and employment in the palm tree gardens of Jahrom, Iran.   Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study including 50 palm tree garden workers and a control group of 50 office employees. Data collection included demographic...