Seega is an ancient Egyptian two-phase board game that, in certain aspects, is more difficult than chess. The two-player game is played on either a 5 × 5, 7 × 7, or 9 × 9 board. In the first and more difficult phase of the game, players take turns placing one disk each on the board until the board contains only one empty cell. In the second phase players take turns moving disks of their color; ...

the acrylated epoxidized soy oil (aeso) was synthesized from epoxidized soy oil and its properties were investigated.  wheat straw particle boards were produced by the synthesized resin with 8% and 13% contents based on straws weight at three pressing times: 8,10 and 12 min. boards’ modulus of rapture, modulus of elasticity, internal bonding, minimum degree of thickness change and water absorpt...

One of the top strategic objectives and research areas in Europe is recovering wood from processing and end of life products. However, there are still several ‘contaminated’ wood products that are not or only partly reused/recycled. Particle board waste which is contaminated with aminoplasts is one of these products. In addition, a considerable amount of aminoplast waste resinis produced for th...

The ability to move in complex environments is a fundamental requirement for robots to be a part of our daily lives. While in simple environments it is usually straightforward for human designers to foresee the different conditions a robot will be exposed to, for more complex environments the human design of high-performing controllers becomes a challenging task, especially when the on-board re...

This paper presents a robotic platform which is targeted to perform the task of a tennis ball boy. This platform is self-contained with on-board sensing and computation, uses only cost-effective off-the-shelf components, and was designed to perform robustly and repeatably in semistructured real-world environments. In particular, this paper presents a particle-filter implementation that allows t...

The effect of using elastic glue in between a timber construction’s two floor layers – gypsum board and particle board – was investigated. In a new timber based building, the impact sound insulation was reduced by 2 dB when elastic glue was introduced in the production. To find out the long-term effects, six different elastic glues was involved in a laboratory test in which layers of floor plas...