The paper presents the results of the researchwork performed on the behaviour of the Christmas Card door framesmade of laminated MDF (cherry and walnut foil) onimmersion in water.The MDF boards were purchasedfrom two different suppliers.The immersion wasmade untill the critical limit was reached, when thedimensional characteristics of the frame cam
In today?s competitive, complex and rapidly changing business world, based on information, it is very essential to have timely and accurate insight of business conditions and activities to check whether they are healthy and according to business norms.Information obviously plays a critical role to have this insight and it can only be of avail, if i
Extraterrestrial celestial patrol missions have introduced very strict requirements for the performance of rovers, due to their high cost.Vision-based or Lidar-based environment sensing technology has matured.However, due to its perceptual characteristics, it is impossible to predict the traversability of the terrain completely, and it lacks the ju
An airport ferry vehicle is a ground service vehicle used to transfer passengers between the far apron and the terminal.The travel time of ferry tasks in the airport ferry network is an important decision-making basis for ferry vehicle scheduling.This paper presents a graph-based method to mine the travel time between nodes in the airport ferry net
Little is known about Southern ground-hornbill (SGH) population ecology outside of large, formally protected areas where the largest declines in numbers have been recorded.The SGH has started re-colonising, establishing group territories and breeding successfully in the Limpopo Valley on the northern border of South Africa, following localised exti