This paper showcases the use of lean manufacturing tool known as Value Stream Mapping (VSM) a means identifying and reducing waste in water bottling factory. is Lean Manufacturing technique for where wastes occur process. A Current State Map (CVSM) was utilized sources current state operations plant. On other hand, Future (FVSM) used proposing an improved plant’s production processes. The CVSM ...

With the creation of the 1997 Habitat Conservation Plan, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR, or Department) has charted a new course for forest management of 1.45 million acres of forested state trust land covered by the riparian conservation strategy. The Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) agreement, signed with the Federal Services (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Nati...

This work presents a method for reconstructing 3D tongue surfaces during speech from ultrasound data. The method reduces the dimensionality of the tongue surface and maintains highly accurate reproduction of local deformation features. This modification is an essential step if multiplane tongue movements are to be reconstructed practically into tongue surface movements. Earlier work (Stone & Lu...

Abstract. Several factorization techniques have been proposed for tackling the Structure from Motion problem. Most of them provide a good solution, while the amount of missing and noisy data is within an acceptable ratio. Focussing on this problem, we propose to use an incremenal multiresolution scheme, with classical factorization techniques. Information recovered following a coarse-to-fine st...

Several factorization techniques have been proposed for tackling the Structure from Motion problem. Most of them provide a good solution, while the amount of missing and noisy data is within an acceptable ratio. Focussing on this problem, we propose to use an iterative multiresolution scheme, with classical factorization techniques. Information recovered following a coarseto-fine strategy is us...

A Bulgarian and a German sentence were presented to Bulgarian and German listeners together with a question which either expected an early narrow focus or a late narrow focus. The answering sentences were manipulated so that the word in the latefocused position ranged from completely de-accented to strongly accented. The early focused position was neutral, allowing latefocus perception with lat...