Flooring may play a role in standing fatigue, however previous studies of flooring on subjective and objective measures thought to be related to fatigue/discomfort, have had mixed results. The majority of the differences in the reported results are probably due to differences in procedures and analysis methods, particularly variations in testing duration and exposure time. The impact of floorin...

A study published in 1996 by the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) indicated that 15% of cows culled from dairy herds in the United States were culled as a “direct effect” of lameness. This sounds reasonable until one considers that the “indirect effects” of lameness on production and reproduction are estimated to account for an additional 49.1% of culling in US herds. Although t...

Rubber flooring in dairy cows has been discussed controversially, because different studies found as well advantages as disadvantages regarding claw health. Until today little is known regarding the effect of rubber flooring on the reproductive performance of dairy cows. Therefore, the study aimed at comparing fertility and the milk yield of dairy cows on concrete or rubber flooring. Days to fi...

Adaptive variance flooring has previously been suggested as a method to help preventing over-fitting of variance parameters during training of HMMs. With this method, the average variance over some calibration data set is multiplied by a constant variance flooring factor to produce the variance floor. In this paper, experiments with adaptive variance flooring is presented, in which we try to op...

contamination control, reversible attachment is a concern. Particles on the floor that are not completely contained or trapped onto a surface will eventually, through air movement and vortices, become re-suspended into the air. Previous studies have shown that transfer of contamination by people walking across floors has one of the highest re-dispersal factors7. One of the measures commonly emp...

High-density wood is required in wood flooring, especially in engineered wood flooring (EWF) designed for heavy-duty applications. However, high-density wood resources are limited and their cost is high. A densification treatment makes it possible for lowor moderate-density woods to replace harder species by modifying them into highperformance and high-value products, such as engineered wood fl...

BACKGROUND Owing to increased complexity in the evolution of society, stress has become an important public health problem, and is responsible for more than 30 types of diseases. Most of the research on stress conducted to date has focused on physical and psychological aspects; however, there are very few reports about the association between psychological stress and elements within the residen...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of flooring surfaces in the ground reaction forces and foot/floor friction during stroke gait. The participant was oriented to walk, in its own preferred speed, over two force plates on the following surfaces: HOV, carpet and HTV. The results of this study showed no differences between the hemiparetic and the control group when de GRF and COF w...