OBJECTIVE When the dimensional measurements of the students who spend most of their time at school are taken into consideration, inappropriate dimensions of school equipment may affect their body and psychological improvements negatively. Anthropometric measurements are necessary for designing the educational equipment of the children at school. It is emphasized that anthropometric measurements...

Smart grid has been introduced to address power distribution system challenges. In conventional power distribution systems, when a power outage happens, the maintenance team tries to find the outage cause and mitigate it. After this, some information is documented in a dataset called the outage dataset. If the team can estimate the outage cause before searching for it, the restoration time will...

Underground stations traditionally are a common application for video surveillance. Currently, humans have to be employed to control trains and stations to avoid harm to passengers and equipment using closed-circuit television (CCTV), but this personell has to watch at least 20 screens at the same time and could miss important events. However, the already installed surveillance equipment in sta...

On 15 June 2010, a Member of the European Parliament, Jill Evans, introduced the Report on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and Electronic Equipment (Recast), to the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament. This Report was seen by m...

We study the stability of the optimal stopping problem for a discrete-time Markov process on a general space state X. Revenue and cost functions are allowed to be unbounded. The stability (robustness) is understood in the sense that an unknown transition probability p(·|x), x ∈ X, is approximated by the known one p̃(·|x), x ∈ X, and the stopping rule τ̃∗, optimal for the process governed by p̃ is ...

This paper reports the first of several tests of new auditory alarms originally proposed by Block et al. [1] and formalized in IEC 60601-1-8 for use in medical electrical equipment. We test whether participants who are supplied with the IEC-recommended mnemonics while learning label-alarm associations can more accurately identify the alarms after short periods of learning. Results for 18 partic...