This study assessed human kinetics in relation to golf shoe outer sole design features during the golf swing using a driver club by measuring both within the shoe, and beneath the shoe at the natural grass interface. Three different shoes were assessed: metal 7- spike shoe, alternative 7-spike shoe, and a flat soled shoe. In-shoe plantar pressure data were recorded using Footscan RS Internation...

Floor storage systems are used in the shoe industry to store fashion products of seasonal collections of low quantity and high variety. Since space is valuable and order picking must be sped up, stacking of shoeboxes should be optimized. The problem is modelled based on shoe features (model, type, colour, and size) and with the goal of forcing similar boxes into locations close to each other in...

The European shoe industry has experienced significant challenges in the last 20 years, mainly due to the pressures of modern global markets in which the industry has to compete with competitors from low labour cost countries in Asia and the Far East. A new trend is now forecast concerning the mass customization of shoes, where customers choose and order customized shoes from a range of predefi...

1. Introduction. Berry and Tabor conjecture in [1] that the distribution of local spacings between the eigenvalues of the quantization of the Hamiltonian for generic, completely integrable systems follow those of random numbers. (Such a distribution is often called " Poissonian. ") In [8], Sarnak considers the specific case of the geodesic flow on a flat two-dimensional torus, for which the Ber...

In this paper, we describe a robust method for the estimation of curvature on a triangle mesh, where this mesh is a discrete approximation of a piecewise smooth surface. The proposed method avoids the computationally expensive process of surface fitting and instead employs normal voting to achieve robust results. This method detects crease discontinuities on the surface to improve estimates nea...

We estimated survival and movement probabilities in relation to breeding-colony size in the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius) by using multistate statistical methods, in which survival and movement to time t þ 1 is conditional on an individual’s colony size at time t. The sociable weaver is a colonial, cooperatively breeding species that builds a massive communal nest, with colony size rangi...

The perceived differences between comfortable and uncomfortable shoes and the fit preferences in the different regions of ladies’ shoes were explored. Twenty Hong Kong Chinese females participated in the study. Each participant wore and rated the different aspects of their own comfortable and uncomfortable shoes. The Wilcoxon signed rank tests showed significant differences in ten perceived cha...

Most people choose shoes mainly based on their foot sizes. However, a foot size only reflects the foot length which does not consider the foot width. Therefore, some people use both width and length of their feet to select shoes, but those two parameters cannot fully characterize the 3-D shape of a foot and are certainly not enough for selecting a pair of comfortable shoes. In general, the ball...

Locality preserving projection (LPP) is a manifold learning method widely used in pattern recognition and computer vision. The face recognition application of LPP is known to suffer from a number of problems including the small sample size (SSS) problem, the fact that it might produce statistically identical transform results for neighboring samples, and that its classification performance seem...

The characteristics of the host contact network over which a pathogen is transmitted affect both epidemic spread and the projected effectiveness of control strategies. Given the importance of understanding these contact networks, it is unfortunate that they are very difficult to measure directly. This challenge has led to an interest in methods to infer information about host contact networks f...