advances and research challenges

... two-SMA actuator and helps to understand the relationship between the variables involved in the equations 24 Smart Actuation and Sensing Systems – Recent Advances and Future Challenges Line OA ... from orders@intechopen.com Smart Actuation and Sensing Systems – Recent Advances and Future Challenges, Edited by Giovanni Berselli, Rocco Vertechy and Gabriele Vassura p cm ISBN 978-953-51-0798-9 ... Detoni, Diego Boero, Andrea Tonoli and Marcello Chiaberge 249 Contents Chapter 19 Magnetoelastic Energy Harvesting: Modeling and Experiments 487 Daniele Davino, Alessandro Giustiniani and Ciro Visone...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 13:20

... attendees and both the introduction and the post-conference material have been reviewed and approved for publication by the sponsoring research unit at RAND Research Gaps and Measurement Challenges ... Health and Human Services H E A LT H The research described in this report was sponsored by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services and was conducted in RAND Health, a division of the RAND ... The R AND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis RAND’s publications not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 05:20

... specificity and sensitivity of a given device depends largely on the proper selection and combination of capturing elements and transducers With continuing advances in biochemistry and molecular ... preparations and clinical samples (nasal washes) was achieved In 67 clinical samples, the QCM-based immunosensor was comparable with standard methods such as shell vial and cell culture and better ... phosphodiester backbone and the 5´ and 3´-termini to ribonucleases and exonucleases, respectively Nuclease-resistant RNA aptamer sensors were synthesized based on 2´ F-substituted C- and U-nucleotides...

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 13:59

... advanced and timely topics in information security research and development The scope of this series includes all aspects of computer and network security and related areas such as fault tolerance and ... original signal into two frequency-bands (called subbands), which are often denoted as coarse scale approximation (lowpass subband) and detail signal (highpass subband) Then, the same procedure is ... DETECTION AND CORRELATION: Challenges and Solutions by Christopher Kruegel‚ Fredrik Valeur and Giovanni Vigna; ISBN: 0-387-23398-9 THE AUSTIN PROTOCOL COMPILER by Tommy M McGuire and Mohamed G Gouda;...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:41

... [16] [17] [18] [19] This research was supported by the Office of Naval Research [20] REFERENCES [21] [1] Y Bar-Shalom and X.-R Li, Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Principles and Techniques, YBS Publishing, ... USA, 1986 [4] S S Blackman and R Popoli, Design and Analysis of Modern Tracking Systems, Artech House, Boston, Mass, USA, 1999 [5] W R Blanding, P K Willett, Y Bar-Shalom, and R S Lynch, “Covert ... 162–166, 1981 A Papoulis and S Pillai, Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, USA, 2002 W Press, S Teukolosky, W Vetterling, and B Flannery, Numerical...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... status of worldwide regulation and standardization efforts for 60 GHz band Regulatory body in United States, Japan, Canada, and Australia have already set frequency bands and regulations for 60 GHz ... standardization efforts The first international industry standard that covers 60 GHz band is the IEEE 802.16 Standard for local and metropolitan area networks [16] However, this is a licensed band ... maximum transmit power and maximum EIRP are limited to 10 dBm and 51.7 dBm, respectively The data communication transmitters that operate in this frequency band are limited to land and maritime deployments...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... ~60-70°N) – Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, Middle Europe (~55°N,

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 19:20

... Guarnaschelli and P C Fernandez Preface Forestry research is the application of scientific methods to investigate and understand management and practice of forestry and to effectively and sustainably ... relationship between land cover characteristics on one hand and stream flow and aquatic organisms characteristics on the other hand Land cover characteristics are represented by changes in land cover, mainly ... Table Land use/ cover areas in the upper Sondu-Miriu River basin- Kimugu Sampling Site 10 New Advances and Contributions to Forestry Research Land use/ cover type Water Woodland/ Wetlands Sparse...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 11:20

... Chancellor’s Fellowship to CG, the Sandler Center for Basic Research in Asthma and the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation We also thank Lisa Brooks and Jean McEwen (NIH/NHGRI and the 1000 Genomes Project) ... Genomes Project and the next generation of deep sequencing platforms will provide is unprecedented and will have important implications for genetics and health as we move closer and closer to the ... genetic ancestry tests Medical applications, such as determining drug efficacy and/ or toxicity and prediction of disease and prognosis, will need further deep sequencing in clinical projects before...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... obligations of researchers and those of a for-profit player (to each other, to the participants and to the wider society) abound How these conflicting views, values and beliefs are weighed and balanced ... currently asked to ensure that research protocols they approve are ethically conducted The logistics and practicalities of this mandate, ways to minimize intrusiveness and to maximize effectiveness, ... lead to decreased enrolment in research trials and ultimately hinder our abilities to improve the morbidity and mortality of critical illness Finally, once completed, research must be published to...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Assessing Advances and Challenges in Technical Education in Brazil A WORLD BANK STUDY Assessing Advances and Challenges in Technical Education in Brazil Rita Almeida, Nicole Amaral, and Fabiana ... vocational and technical education and training in Brazil and assesses recent advances and challenges in their delivery The report is based on interviews with clients and stakeholders, including MEC-SETEC ... industry (SESI and SENAI), trade (SESC and SENAC), transportation (SEST and SENAT), agriculture (SENAR), cooperatives (SESCOOP), and micro and small enterprises (SEBRAE) SMEs small and medium enterprises...

Ngày tải lên: 24/11/2015, 20:01

... demand and often required capital investment that farmers cannot afford Often models are based on lowland agriculture and are promoted in upland and mountainous areas without prior testing and ... Annual cropland Irrigated annual Perennial cropland Forest land % having land Size1 (m2) % having land2 Size1 (m2) % having land Size1 (m2) % having land Size1 (m2) North East Kinh Ethnic Min 87 ... cropland and forestry land has often been based on the ability to invest in the land with labour and capital Given that poor people, including the ethnic minorities, have a shortage of funds and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 21:15

... heat and become trapped in the atmosphere This changes the climate and alters weather patterns, which influences the length of seasons and the operation of wildlife This also causes flooding and ... many other materials for agriculture, transport, housing and so on Many rare species, also, are on the verge of extinction, and areas of land and forests are reducing gradually As a result, people ... warming and climate changes are becoming more and more dangerous for our lives Secondly, globalization also causes a loss of natural resources With the development of worldwide industries, the demand...

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Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 07:20

... Barton, and Brown (2002), Fontana (2004), Fraser and Strang (2004), Kirkham and Anderson (2002), and Procter, Wilcockson, Pearson, and Allgar (2001) See Dialectic, Dialogue, Feminist Research, and ... of subject and object/researcher and 'researched') "against a backdrop of shared understandings, practices, 27 c Contamination language, and [other historical, cultural, ideological, and political ... nonrandom, usually undesirable phenomenon However, there are differences in the ways that quantitative and qualitative researchers understand and deal with bias In quantitative research, researchers...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 22:20

... B and G and for Aflatoxin M1 315 Laura Anfossi, Claudio Baggiani, Cristina Giovannoli and Gianfranco Giraudi Risk Assessment, Economics and Trade 341 Chapter 16 Aflatoxins: Risk, Exposure and ... Occurrence of Aflatoxin M1 in Raw and Pasteurized Goat Milk in Thailand 207 Suthep Ruangwises, Piyawat Saipan and Nongluck Ruangwises Chemico-Biological Interactions and Human Health 221 Chapter 11 ... Susana Patricia Miranda-Castro, Ernesto Moreno-Martínez, Irineo Torres-Pacheco and Alma Virginia Lara-Sagahón VI Contents Chapter Recent Advances for Control, Counteraction and Amelioration of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal A and N Islands Chandigarh Delhi D and N Haveli Daman and Diu Lakshadweep Pondicherry India NFHS-1 1992-93 45 38.4 ... generate demand and also to make potent, effective vaccine and immunization services available and accessible Parents need to be convinced that immunization is valuable; they should know where and when ... J&K Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala M P Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Orissa Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal A&N Islands Chandigarh...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... household; interacting and communicating with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and daughter, brother and sister; and creating and maintaining a ... education, and research; new knowledge derived from family social sciences and the health sciences; national and state health care policies; changing health care behavior and attitudes; and national and ... studying abroad and attending international seminars and conferences in family nursing; and Japanese nurses exchanging information and research results with scholars abroad SIGNIFICANCE AND CONTRIBUTION...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20

... Hammer and McLeod [1981], Kent [ 19781, Kent [1979], and Smith and Smith [1977] and have since been echoed and extended in works such as Abiteboul and Hull [1987], Brodie [1984], King and McLeod ... Also, Afsarmanesh and McLeod [ 19841, King and McLeod [ 1985b], and Semantic Database Modeling Maryanski and Peckham [1986] present taxonomies of the more prominent models, and Urban and Delcambre ... mechanisms for viewing and accessing the schema at different levels of abstraction [Hammer and McLeod 1981; King and McLeod 1985a; Smith and Smith 1977; Su 1983; Tsichritzis and Lochovsky 19821...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:22