BACKGROUND falls disproportionately affect older people, who are at increased risk of falls and injury. This pilot study investigates shock-absorbing flooring for fall-related injuries in wards for frail older people. METHODS we conducted a non-blinded cluster randomised trial in eight hospitals in England between April 2010 and August 2011. Each site allocated one bay as the 'study area', wh...

We tested the application of qualitative behavioral assessment (QBA) as a welfare assessment tool. Sheep were exposed to road transport treatments, and behavioral expressions were compared between experimental treatments and validated by correlation with physiological measures. We compared journeys differing in ventilation (closed vs. open-sided trailer), flooring (grip vs. nongrip flooring), a...

Abstract In this paper, a new method of measuring slicing checks for flat-sliced veneers was evaluated. The is based on image analysis veneer cross-sections, having highlighted the using surface staining. segmentation consists global thresholding followed by some morphological operations. outputs algorithm are check depth ratio and frequency. tested oak ( Quercus robur L. petraea (Matt). Liebl....

Performance of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system tends to be dramatically degraded in the presence of impulsive noise. In the previous work [1], we proposed flooring the observation probability (FOP) to compensate the adverse effect of impulsive noise on sensitive dimensions of Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) features. Linear prediction cepstral coefficient (LPCC) is anothe...

There are various methods available for predicting impact sound pressure levels of floors. Understanding the accuracy of these prediction methods can be an important aspect of designing or refining a proposed flooring system. This paper provides a brief outline of some available prediction methods for massive (typically concrete) floors and light weight floor constructions. Consideration is giv...

A five year-old bull moose (Alces alces) was culled due to chronic hoof overgrowth that required frequent intervention. Radiographic examination revealed changes in phalangeal bone structure usually considered indicative for laminitis in domestic cattle; similar changes were absent in the hooves of a free-ranging moose of similar age. The captive animal had been maintained in exhibits whose flo...

The aim of this study is to investigate the static and dynamic behaviour multilayer materials manufactured from granular recycled rubber applied technical flooring. studied samples were by varying their thickness, density granulometry, as these are parameters that determine performance rubbery materials. Two mechanical tests, dynamic, carried out under controlled conditions evaluate means its m...

In this paper, a novel and noise robust front-end based on the combined application of spectral subtraction, spectral flooring and cumulative distribution mapping is proposed. Recognition experiments with the Aurora II connected digits reveal that the proposed front-end achieves an average digit accuracy of 81.46% for a model set trained from clean data and 89.54% for a model set trained from d...

We previously proposed a Mel-Wiener filter to enhance Mel-LPC spectra in presence of additive noise. The proposed filter was estimated based on minimization of sum of square error on the linear frequency scale and efficiently implemented in the autocorrelation domain without denoising input speech. In the previously proposed system we segregated speech and noise using an energy based VAD and a ...