Transport is an inevitable process in the modern U.S. swine industry. The loading process is a novel and potentially stressful experience. This study uses behavior, heart rate and leukocyte counts to compare stress one hour before, during and after loading via ramp or elevator. Piglets were held in a home pen (control (CON)), walked up and down an aisle (handled (HAN)), or walked to a truck and...

Recently, There are various approach for an elevator system based on information technology. And an elevator that has more than 20,00 parts for the building and use by many and unspecified people publicity as a means of transportation need to make the more secure and efficient management. For this purpose, the elevator systems require the more efficient network environment. But the service impl...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Juha-Matti Kuusinen Name of the doctoral dissertation People Flow in Buildings – Evacuation Experiments and Modelling of Elevator Passenger Traffic Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 47/2015 Field of research Systems ...

This paper presents a new modeling of elevator group intelligent scheduling system with destination floor guidance. The traditional input mode of separate hall call registration and the destination selection is improved to a single-input mode. On this basis, dynamic partition method in up-peak traffic is studied. This method means dynamically adjust division of floor region based on flow rate a...

BACKGROUND Elevators are ubiquitous and active inside hospitals, potentially facilitating bacterial transmission. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of bacterial colonization on elevator buttons in large urban teaching hospitals. METHODS A total of 120 elevator buttons and 96 toilet surfaces were swabbed over separate intervals at 3 tertiary care hospitals on weekdays ...

We propose a novel approach for group elevator scheduling by formulating it as the maximization of submodular function under a matroid constraint. In particular, we propose to model the total waiting time of passengers using a quadratic Boolean function. The unary and pairwise terms in the function denote the waiting time for single and pairwise allocation of passengers to elevators, respective...

In dentistry, elevator instruments are used to luxate teeth, and this technique imparts forces to tooth particles that sever the periodontal ligament around tooth roots inside the socket and expand alveolar bone around tooth particles. These effects can result in extraction of the tooth particles or facilitate systematic forceps extraction of the tooth particles. This article presents basic ora...

People typically remember objects to which they have frequently been exposed, suggesting that memory is a by-product of perception. However, prior research has shown that people have exceptionally poor memory for the features of some objects (e.g., coins) to which they have been exposed over the course of many years. Here, we examined how people remember the spatial layout of the buttons on a f...

Elevators are the primary method for occupants to move between floors inside modern buildings. Therefore, there have been efforts in minimizing the service delay for a elevator call. Recently, the industry has started to leverage human behavioral patterns in optimizing the elevator dispatching algorithm. However, we argue that it is difficult to judge their gains in the real world, mainly due t...