This paper reports on a large, long-term mobile wireless sensor network deployment. The trial was part of an animal study involving 45 animals. During the trial, 15 animals were equipped with wireless sensor nodes for a week. The paper discusses various issues with such a deployment including electronic design, software design, animal ethics clearance, logistics, and wearable computing equipmen...

Every year, 3 million newborns die within the first month of life. Birth asphyxia and other breathing-related conditions are a leading cause of mortality during the neonatal phase. Current diagnostic methods are too sophisticated in terms of equipment, required expertise, and general logistics. Consequently, early detection of asphyxia in newborns is very difficult in many parts of the world, e...

Frequently, images of rare documents must be taken under strict time constraints, when a chance opportunity arises, and with equipment that is less than ideally suited for precise digitization. This can often result in uncalibrated images whose contents are nonetheless qualitatively useful. Due to the logistics of document imaging, perspective distortion is a common artifact which can manifest ...

D. Malindžák, BERG Faculty, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia Metallurgical production processes (MPP) consist of continuous and discrete types of technology operation, transport, manipulation and storing processes regards the fl ow of material and also the equipment and machines. Other specifi cs are: long production cycles, great inertia, tree structure of production processes ...

Ports are one of transportation’s logistic components crucial to supporting international trade and economic growth. Increasing at an average annual rate of 16%, the Port of Savannah has been America’s fastest-growing port since 2001. Because of this rapid growth, there is a need to develop a cost-effective means to explore and evaluate new productivity improvement alternatives (e.g. a facility...

This paper studies the simultaneous reshuffle and yard crane scheduling problem in the yard of container terminals, which is one of the key logistics problems affecting the operation efficiency in container terminals. Although the reshuffle scheduling problem has received many research attention due to its importance, the problem without considering yard crane is not very practical, which is be...

This paper presents the results of our PhD work recently completed at the research institute of transportation and logistics CRET-LOG, University of the Mediterranean (Aix – Marseille II, France). We apply Morgan and Hunt’s (1994) 5 “commitment – trust theory of relationship marketing” to a new arena : vertical eco-marketing and reverse distribution channels preparing recycling activities. Our ...

Firms engaged in remanufacturing activities generally adopt more than one recycling channel to collect more used products and gain more profits. This paper explores the optimal strategies for a retailer-dominated closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) with a triple recycling channel in the construction machinery remanufacturing context. In this special system, the retailer is the leader and authorized...

In reverse logistics, the accurate prediction of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) return amount is great significance to guide enterprises formulate a reasonable recycling plan, remanufacturing production plan inventory plan. However, due uncertainty WEEE return, it challenge accurately predict sites. Differently from existing research methods aiming at spatial correlation sites...