Stress results when an individual has less control over an environment or a situation than is desired. One way of regaining control and reducing stress is to regulate privacy by screening the self from spatial, visual or acoustical invasion. This study examined the use of architectural features to regulate privacy under hypothetical situations that are likely to generate low, moderate and high ...

We present an agent-based model of a public bus where some passengers board and exit at every stop. Agents are the passengers characterized by their ethnicity, age group and cultural backgrounds and respective preferences for seats in the bus. Different scenarios are set up whereby the bus moves in various parts of the city, which maybe segregated residentially, university campuses, and areas o...

This paper examines the interesting problem of designing seating plans for large events such as weddings and gala dinners where, amongst other things, the aim is to construct solutions where guests are sat on the same tables as friends and family but, perhaps more importantly, are kept away from those they dislike. This problem is seen to be NP-complete from a number of different perspectives. ...

CCC-r chart extended approach of CCC charts, is a technique applied when nonconforming items are rarely observed. However, it is usually assumed that the inspection process is perfect in the implementation control charts imperfect inspections may have a significant impact on the performance of the control chart and setting the control limits. This paper first investigates the ...

Surgical guides produced by stereolithography use hard resin. The hard resin prevents seating beyond the height of contour, hence these guides are not intrinsically retentive. By covering the guide with a flexible thermoplastic material that extends into the undercuts, the resulting guide now has a retentive feature. This allows it to maintain its position during surgery yet it can easily be re...

Charts constitute a natural uniform architecture for parsing and generation provided string position is replaced by a notion more appropriate to logical forms and that measures are taken to curtail generation paths containing semantically incomplete phrases.

Control chart is the most well-known chart to monitor the number of nonconformities per inspection unit where each sample consists of constant size. Generally, the design of a control chart requires determination of sample size, sampling interval, and control limits width. Optimally selecting these parameters depends on several process parameters, which have been considered from statistical and...