For mixed reality (MR) applications the tracking of a video camera in a rapidly changing large environment with several hundred square meters still represents a challenging task. In contrast to an installation in a laboratory, industrial scenarios like a running factory, require minimal setup, calibration or training times of a tracking system and merely minimal changes of the environment. This...

Industrial imaging systems used for product quality control often need to make an accurate estimation of an object's area. Usually the area is estimated by counting the number of pixels classied as belonging to the object. However, with a technique called decomposition, the number of pixels can be estimated more accurately at the same resolution, or as accurately at a lower resolution. Another ...

Outdoor aerosol particles were characterized in industrial area of Samalut city (El-minia/Egypt) using low pressure Berner cascade impactor as an aerosol sampler. The impactor operates at 1.7 m(3)/h flow rate. Seven elements were investigated including Ca, Ba, Fe, K, Cu, Mn and Pb using atomic absorption technique. The mean mass concentrations of the elements ranged from 0.42 ng/m(3) (for Ba) t...

In this paper we propose a relatively simple procedure to predict Euro-zone industrial production using mostly data derived from the business surveys of the three major economies within the European Monetary Union (France, Germany, and Italy). The basic idea is that of estimating business cyclical indicators to be used as predictors for the industrial production in France and Germany; as far as...

ndustrial restructuring is the ongoing process of reallocating workers among jobs in the economy as industries expand and contract. The New York metropolitan area economy underwent a significant amount of restructuring during the first half of the 1990s as a variety of factors—including new products, increased competition from other areas, and deregulation and fiscal problems—caused area firms ...

Arsenic and chromium are widespread environmental contaminants that affect global health due to their toxicity and carcinogenicity. To date, few studies have investigated exposure to arsenic and chromium in a population residing in a high-risk environmental area. The aim of this study is to evaluate the exposure to arsenic and chromium in the general population with no occupational exposure to ...

The Industrial Process Measurement and Control Systems (IPMCS) architect has a plethora of fieldbuses to select. Many different proprietary fieldbuses, each one supporting different standards and targeting particular market requirements, have been installed in the industry in different time periods under different circumstances. There is an always-growing need to integrate the control applicati...

the present study illustrates the long-term changes in selected socioeconomic variables (population,industrial activities, settlement dispersion, and land-use) together with climate aridity trends in thriasio, the larger industrial area of greece located twenty kilometers far from athens. this region, originally devoted to agriculture, experienced fast industrial and economic development during...

This paper aims at checking the effectiveness of environmental policy pushed by the Central Government at provincial level since China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). For this purpose, the industrial system of each province is divided into industrial production sub-system and pollution treatment sub-system, and a novel slack-based measure data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA) mod...

background: it has been shown that inhalation of carbonaceous particulate matter may impair lung function in children. objective: using the carbon content of airway macrophages as a marker of individual exposure to particulate matter derived from fossil fuel, we sought direct evidence for this association. methods: 300 children from puffed rice industrial areas and 300 children from population ...