The workplace influences the safety, health, and productivity of workers at multiple levels. To protect and promote total worker health, smart hardware, and software tools have emerged for the identification, elimination, substitution, and control of occupational hazards. Wearable devices enable constant monitoring of individual workers and the environment, whereas connected worker solutions provide contextual information and decision support. Here, the recent trends in commercial workplace tech...

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Doi:10.1002/aisy.202100099

Precision swine production can benefit from autonomous, noninvasive, and affordable devices that conduct frequent checks on the well-being status of pigs. Here, we present a remote monitoring tool for the objective measurement of some behavioral indicators that may help in assessing the health and welfare status—namely, posture, gait, vocalization, and external temperature. The multiparameter electronic sensor board is characterized by laboratory measurements and by animal tests. Relevant behavi...

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Doi:10.3390/ani11092665

Innovation strategy provides a clear direction and focuses the effort of the entire organization on a common innovation goal. This study seeks to investigate the innovation strategies adopted by telecommunication service providers for competitive advantage in Kenya with special focus on Airtel Kenya. This research problem is studied through the use of descriptive research design. The target population for this study is the 68 employees of Airtel Kenya at the head office in Nairobi and 100 custom...

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Background Typhoid fever is an infectious disease of global importance that is caused by Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi). This disease causes an estimated 200,000 deaths per year and remains a serious global health threat. S. Typhi is strictly a human pathogen, and some recovered individuals become long-term carriers who continue to shed the bacteria in their faeces, thus becoming main reservoirs of infection. Results A comparative genomics analysis combined with a ...

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Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a modulation scheme, which is used in several wireless systems for transferring data at high rate. The multi path fading channel and the frequency offset between the transmitted and received carrier frequencies introduce ICI (Inter Carrier Interference). ICI effects the OFDM symbols and degrades the system performance. This paper proposes a solution: combine channel estimation and ICI self-cancellation to combat against ICI in doubly selectiv...

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Image features play a vital role in image retrieval. This chapter presents the use of Zernike moment features for retrieving the binary and gray level images from established image databases. To retrieve a set of similar category of images from an image database, up to 25 Zernike moment features from order zero to order 8 were utilized and experimented in this chapter. A total of 1400 binary images from MPEG-7 dataset and 1440 images from a COIL-20 dataset were used to evaluate the capability o...

Doi:10.15579/gcsr.vol1.ch12

The rapid growth of the Internet and multimedia information has generated a need for technical indexing and searching of multimedia information, especially in image retrieval. Image searching systems have been developed to allow searching in image databases. However, these systems are still inefficient in terms of semantic image searching by textual query. To perform semantic searching, it is necessary to be able to transform the visual content of the images (colours, textures, shapes) into sema...

Doi:10.15579/gcsr.vol1.ch10

We give a general framework of statistical aspects of the problem of understanding and a description of image symmetries, by utilizing the theory of moment invariants. In particular, we examine the issues of joint symmetry estimation and detection. These questions are formulated as the statistical decision and estimation problems since we cope with images observed in the presence of noise. The estimation/detection procedures are based on the minimum L2-distance between the reconstructed image ...

Doi:10.15579/gcsr.vol1.ch4

In most computer vision applications, the extraction of key image features, whatever the transformations applied and the image degradations observed, is of major importance. A large diversity of approaches has been reported in the literature. This chapter concentrates on one particular processing frame: the moment-based methods. It provides a survey of methods proposed so far for the derivation of moment invariants to geometric transforms and blurring effects. Theoretical formulations and some s...

Doi:10.15579/gcsr.vol1.ch3

oment metho ds have b een the subject of intensive research since the concept of image moments was intro duced by Hu in 1962 [6]. Dierent typ es of conventional continuous orthogonal moments, dened in the rectangular region and circular domain, have b een investigated as the unique image features for applications in elds of pattern recognition and image analysis. For a general study of continuous orthogonal moments, please refer to [11, 12, 4]. In this chapter, we will conduct the accuracy an...

Doi:10.15579/gcsr.vol1.ch2