Consumers are nowadays more focussed on their health and appearance. As a result, there has been an increasing demand in topical antiageing formulations with natural and nutraceutical ingredients. Novel and innovative delivery systems are transforming the new product development in the cosmetic field because of consumer perceivable benefits and optimized sensory attributes. The applications of ...

Over the past 60 years, fiber optic sensing (FOS) has been used to enhance and test the integrity, efficiency, safety, and durability of structures, vehicles, medical devices, and more across a multitude of industries. Advancements over the past five years have enabled FOS to expand its abilities to include unprecedented levels of data and sensing density across applications in aerospace, energ...

The customer information system (CIS) is a vital component of the meter-to-cash (M2C) value chain for electric utilities and other industries that provide metered delivery of commodities such as water and natural gas. It is the glue that binds the consumption and metering process to payments, collections and other downstream processes that affect a company’s top line. Yet CIS transformations ca...

Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are very popular mainly because of their interesting combinatorial properties and applications to various industries. Informally, the problem is to provide a service to a set of customers using a fleet of vehicles so as to minimize the ‘transportation costs’ without loosing ‘customer satisfaction’. Many variations of the problem have been formulated corresponding...

Ever increasing political pressure for a cleaner environment has triggered large research efforts over the past decade within the automobile and solvent industries to develop new, oxygenated, low atmospheric reactivity fuels and solvents, respectively. The main stimulus for the interest in such compounds in Europe is existing or pending legislation demanding the regulation of the reactivity of ...

in this paper, we study the multi-depot vehiclerouting problem with inter-depot routes, in which the vehicles can replenish atintermediate depots. vehicles leave the origin depot with load on-board andserve customers until out of load. they may visit an intermediate depot toreplenish and finally return to the origin depot, completing their route. weinitiate a mathematical mixed integer programm...

A plethora of solutions to homeland security problems have been proposed, during the last years, by academia, national governments, and industries. In this chapter, we focus on homeland security solutions based on efficient Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)-based audio signal pattern recognition. This is of interest for efficient surveillance of the perimeters of large areas, in order to detect the...

Pedestrians are among the most vulnerable road users. Speed of vehicles is considered as one of the major causes of danger for pedestrians crossing the street. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to devise suitable solutions to reduce speed of vehicles. One of these solutions is installation of Pedestrian Refuge Islands (PRI) in very wide midblocks. With regard to fluctuations in pedestrian a...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to estimate the number of workers exposed to diesel engine exhaust (DEE) by industry and year in the Republic of Korea. METHOD The estimates of workers potentially exposed to DEE in the Republic of Korea were calculated by industry on the basis of the carcinogen exposure (CAREX) surveillance system. The data on the labor force employed in DEE exposure indu...

The purpose of this study was to establish the validity and reliability of a hydrostatic weighing method using total lung capacity (measuring vital capacity with a respirometer at the time of weighing) the prone position, and a small oblong tank. The validity of the method was established by comparing the TLC prone (tank) method against three hydrostatic weighing methods administered in a pool....