trolling marine fouling on ships’ hulls has been considered essential since the earliest days of marine transport. It has been estimated that without any attempt to control fouling, shipping would require 40% more power, equal to about 72 million tonnes of additional fuel per year.1 Therefore, without an effective antifouling system, today’s marine transport industry would undoubtedly grind to ...

ticular note are Raymond Dasman's ecological analysis of what man hath wrought to his detriment in the Nile Valley, Kenneth Boulding's exposition of an economics based on the recognition of the finiteness of our world, Father Wassmer's discussion of abortion, and Kingsley Davis' detailed attack on the assumption that better contraceptives and better access to these contraceptives will, themselv...

Area-based stereo algorithms, as the most universal of all stereovision methods, have the potential to become widely used in many industrial sectors, but their relatively low speed halt the usage. This paper describes the method which can significantly increase computing speed. This new method is called false epipolar constraint. It is an addition to epipolar constraint which can reduce the set...

This article contains the optimum 3 step stress accelerated life test under cumulative exposure model. The lifetimes of test units are assumed to follow a generalized Pareto distribution. The scale parameter of the used failure time distribution at the constant stress level is assumed to have a log-linear and quadratic relationship with the stress. A comparison between linear plan and quadratic...

Accelerated life test (ALT) is currently the main method of assessing product reliability rapidly, and the design of effi‐ cient test plans is a critical step to ensure that ALTs can assess the product reliability accurately, quickly, and economi‐ cally. With the promotion of the national strategy of civil‐military integration, ALT will be widely used in the research and development (R&D) of va...