Soft lifting refers to the process whereby a legally licensed software program is installed or copied in violation of its licensing agreement. Previous research on this pervasive kind of unethical computer use has mainly focused on the determinants of this unethical act, which are rooted in personal, economic, technological, cultural, socio-political, or legal domains. However, little is known ...

A 3-dimensional model and analysis methodology is suggested for treating lifting tasks when unbalanced loads are involved. The paper describes the biomechanical equations that are coupled with the worker's posture geometry, to address a practical problem of non-symmetric lifting. The analysis has a dominant biomechanical modeling scope, as it contains a breakdown of the internal lifting forces ...

The cylindrical permanent magnet is the core part of the permanent-magnet seed-metering device, it can absorb single magnetic powder coated seed. The first, the magnetic induction intensity model of any point in the cylindrical permanent magnet external was established based on the equivalent current model of permanent magnet. The second, the mathematical formula was derived using the Biot-Sava...

OBJECTIVE We seek to develop a new approach for analyzing the physical demands of highly variable lifting tasks through an adaptation of the Revised NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) Lifting Equation (RNLE) into a Variable Lifting Index (VLI). BACKGROUND There are many jobs that contain individual lifts that vary from lift to lift due to the task requirements. The ...

The present research work proposes a new fast fixed-point averaging algorithm on the compact Stiefel manifold based on a mixed retraction/lifting pair. Numerical comparisons between fixed-point algorithms based on the proposed non-associated retraction/lifting map pair and two associated retraction/lifting pairs confirm that the averaging algorithm based on a combination of mixed maps is remark...

In this paper an approach of ferromagnetic shimming for permanent MRI magnet is presented. It is designed to reduce unhomogeneity of magnetostatic field of permanent magnet to meet the stringent requirement for MRI applications. An optimal configuration of ferromagnetic pieces is generated through calculation according to the initial field map and the demanded final homogeneity specifications. ...

Modern compilers for ML-like polymorphic languages have used explicit run-time type passing to support advanced optimizations such as intensional type analysis, representation analysis and tagless garbage collection. Unfortunately, maintaining type information at run time can incur a large overhead to the time and space usage of a program. In this paper, we present an optimal type-lifting algor...

An experimental and simulation flight test has been carried out to evaluate the longitudinal gliding characteristics of a lifting body with blunted half-cone geometry. The novelty here is the lifting body's pitch control mechanism, which consists of a pair of leading-edge rotating cylinders. Flight simulation uses aerodynamic data from computational fluid dynamics supported by wind-tunnel test....

manual material handling is identified as one of the musculoskeletal disorders risk factors. the aims of this study were to evaluate lifting activities by niosh equation and mac method and the correlation of these two methods. this cross-sectional study was conducted in a rubber industry. studied subjects were 136 male workers selected from various sections by proportional-to size sampling meth...

This paper proposes a generic lifting technology (Barbell Lifting), where each predicting or updating signal is generated with a Barbell function instead of always a sample from single direction or bi-direction, to incorporate various motion alignment methods into temporal wavelet transform. The proposed lifting technology embraces fractional pixel motion alignment, variable block size motion a...