Locating and analysing the location of new stores or outlets is one of the common issues facing retailers and franchisers.This is due to assure that new opening stores are at their strategic location to attract the highest possible number of customers.Spatial information is used to manage, maintain and analyse these store locations.However, since t

Large-sized seven-degrees-of-freedom (7-DoF) hybrid spray-painting robots combine ample working space and high flexibility, making them lucrative for the spray painting of aircraft and rocket surfaces.However, their kinematic calibration is hindered by gravitational deformation, which problem is addressed in this study by introducing a rigid-flexib

Sarcomeres are the smallest functional contractile unit of muscle, and myofibrils are striated muscle organelles that are comprised of sarcomeres that are strictly aligned in series.Furthermore, passive forces in sarcomeres and myofibrils are almost exclusively produced by the structural protein titin, and all contractile, regulatory, and structura

Background: Synthesizing dance motions to match musical inputs is a significant challenge in animation research.Compared to functional human motions, such as locomotion, dance motions are creative and artistic, often influenced by music, and can be independent body language expressions.Dance choreography requires motion content to follow a general