The design for the environment (DfE) tools are used to include the environmental objectives into all of the company’s processes, and their suppliers and customers if possible. This paper investigates the benefits of applying DFE tools in the graphic arts industry, specifically the book production process. A present book production process in a print shop was redesigned taking into account the q...

When manufacturing parts using material extrusion additive and anisotropic polymers, the mechanical properties of a manufactured component are strongly dependent on print trajectory orientation. We conduct non-planar slicing optimize trajectories to maximize alignment between deposition direction stress flow induced by predefined load case. The optimization framework considers manufacturability...

The heterogeneous integration of devices from multiple material platforms onto a single chip is demonstrated using transfer-printing (TP) technique. Serial printing in spatially dense arrangements requires that subsequent processes do not disturb previously printed components, even the case where print head contact with those devices. In this manuscript we show deterministic components within f...

Bouma's law of crowding predicts an uncrowded central window through which we can read and a crowded periphery through which we cannot. The old discovery that readers make several fixations per second, rather than a continuous sweep across the text, suggests that reading is limited by the number of letters that can be acquired in one fixation, without moving one's eyes. That "visual span" has b...

In the last few years the research community has witnessed significant progress in biometric technology, due to the availability of a wide variety of databases. However, the available databases that are currently available present significant setbacks in terms of restricted access to data, low-resolution and restrictions imposed on individuals during the acquisition phase. In this paper, two ne...