background and objectives: painting workshops are part of the woodwork (carpentry) industry in which despite advances in technology, the work force fulfills most of the roles in the production process. since such manual activities are often performed with awkward postures due to lack of workers’ awareness and inappropriate design of tools and working conditions, ergonomic assessment of work env...

D the holiday season, transformations abound. At the end of the year, my family, friends, and colleagues parade in their ugly sweaters or their New Year’s Eve party-wear. I was thinking about how these adornments can influence our circle of interactions. As a tangible example, my colleague George Phillips attracted a crowd with his prize-winning sweater (Figure 1). Our first issue of 2012 also ...

We describe an algorithm for automatic generation of idealized bead figures from recognizable 3D models (animals, humans, etc.). The bead figures approximate the model by a set of cylindrical shapes threaded onto a skeleton of the model. As such, they provide volumetric shape information in addition to the skeleton. The bead figures can be used by applications requiring a simple and compact des...

a good account given as to site, plans, area per patient, arrangement of the administrative units, detail of structure as foundations, walls, floors, roofing, stairs, partitions, windows, woodwork, painting, water supplies, heating, lighting, signalling, plumbing and sewerage, ventilation, refrigeration, elevators. Then follows a chapter on the divisions of a general hospital, administrative de...

The burials at the Neolithic cemetery Kadruka 23 in Sudan have yielded adornments and bone lithic artefacts that occur as distinct stages of chaîne opératoire . This article reports on a hitherto unrecognised funerary practice highlights importance craftsmanship for communities life beyond.

The conspicuous white silken adornments known as stabilimenta, which are commonly found in the orb webs of some spiders, appear to be protective devices that warn birds of the presence of webs in their flight path. Webs endowed with artificial equivalents of stabilimenta tended to survive intact the early morning period when birds are on the wing; unmarked webs showed a high incidence of destru...