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... adoption of the natureinspired optimization method, called Intelligent Water Drops (IWD) algorithm The IWD algorithm imitates the flow of water drops in the streams or rivers that xii attempt to ... difference between temperature of the body and that of the ambient environment However, the amount of energy harvested is limited due to the small size of the harvester and the fluctuation of the energy ... chance to find the optimal or near optimal route The basic IWD algorithm forms the aggregation tree with the re-enforcement of attracting other water drops in the next round of the tree construction...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:04

... dependency of the intervention In case of very strong therapeutic agents it may be suspected that therapeutic intervention challenges the physiological correlation network to more simple structures ... positive and negative feedback With better knowledge of these interactions, a specific intervention to modulate activity without unwanted side effects may be developed To approach the issue of ... factor-kappa B, the activity of the latter has been shown to be regulated by GCs, too [17] We are aware of the limitations of this study, which include its basis on immunhistochemical analysis of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... (Figure 1) The GAGD process uses the natural tendency of the gas to rise to the top and the descent of the injected water to the bottom by injecting gas into the reservoir using (existing) vertical ... pairs, the location of the well pairs, the location of the horizontal producers above the oil-water contact, the CO2 injection rates, the production rates and the lag time in between the start of ... ownership of the resources is allowed through the transfer of rights to the contractor (the contractor bears all the risks and most of the rewards) and the payment of bonuses, royalties and taxes to the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/09/2016, 19:47

... required to run the transmitter circuitry, the receiver circuitry, and the transmitter amplifier, and t is the path attenuation exponent which depends on the distance between the transmitter and the ... number of data streams to be aggregated in a network is identical to the number of the nodes Thus, it is important to properly derive the number of hops to accurately estimate the total energy ... Network parameters used for the evaluation are shown in Table The cost for data transmission to the next hop is set to one unit of energy On the other hand, the costs for data reception and data...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... related to the ubiquity characteristic of the system; their possible integration into the furniture’s upholstery could further highlight the ubiquitous feature of a system like this The smart textiles ... high quantity and better quality of data for AmI systems This evolution of ubiquitous computing is being extended nowadays with the Internet of Things (IoT) IoT integrates these new capabilities ... to the user, to active elements providing the ability to interact with the user, and this translates in a greater quantity of applications and features that allow to monitor different aspects...

Ngày tải lên: 05/12/2015, 22:57

... in the group has to take part in their work going to each of the family in their neighbour to take the notes of the amount of energy they spent (water, electricity, ,oil,coal…) in a module of time ... share the best way to the web site of the resources file of City education service ACTIVITIES All Ss.in each group should their real assignement to be able to collect the own amounts of the city ... from the chart • By the end of the lesson Ss.will be able to read the information from the chart and write a description from it • This design can help them to infinite the information in the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2013, 01:27

... some solutions to enhance import activities Scope of this report: The scope of this report is about the real situation of import activities of Vietnam energy development support Joint Stock Company ... generates the majority of the company’s revenue Approximately, the contribution of that activity to the company’s overall revenue accounts for two thirds of the total The company also determines that ... below Unit: VND Criteria Total revenue Net income Gross profit Net profit from business activities Net profit from financing activities Other profit Corporate income tax (28%) Profit after tax 2009...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2013, 09:11

... coefficient that functions in a way to decrease or increase the net entrance of the activating function [15] An activating function will be applied to restrict the amplitude of neuron output The activating ... normalized targets versus net outputs shows a good approach to the optimal agreement and in Figure the root mean square error of training and test settings demonstrate that at the interaction 6.00e+5 the ... The creation of an ANN must comprise the following steps: patterns definition; network implementation; identification of the learning parameters; training and network testing The conception of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... daily temperature It is worth to be mentioned that these design data from the meteorological stations of NOA and AUTh are not included neither in the climate data of ASHRAE [2] nor of the Hellenic ... meteorological stations of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) [8] and of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) [9] The results for the two decades are compared and the existing ... directly related to the temperature level The consequence of the reported trend towards milder winters and hotter summers is the reduction of energy consumption for heating and the increase of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... implicate that the Na+ binding of the decarboxylase (Km % mM) was dramatically affected by the S382A mutation We also investigated the stability of OadB with the S382A mutation in the presence of trypsin ... trypsin This mutant enzyme was degraded by trypsin with a half time of < h without or with up to 600 mM NaCl present, indicating that by this mutation OadB adopts a conformation that is more susceptible ... ligand but is not involved in the proton pathway through the membrane For proton translocation the phenolic hydroxyl of Y229 appears to switch between the protonated and the deprotonated state The...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

... compare its actual level of import with its theoretical import capacity In that respect, it is interesting to note that Italy and Portugal have both high prices and a level of actual import that is ... report on the implementation of the electricity and gas market Box 2: Market opening of network industries in the new Member States For most of the new Member States, the process of transition towards ... and of total factor productivity Surprisingly, the authors found no significant impact of reforms on the growth of labour productivity or on total factor productivity It seems therefore that deregulation...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... initial test plan The learning that happens during this step is often the most important part of the entire test Step 4: Execution The execution phase often proves to be the most intense and active ... Enterprise Network Testing Contents Part I Introduction to Enterprise Network Testing Chapter A Business Case for Enterprise Network Testing Why Testing Is Important The Cost of Network Downtime ... Enterprise Network Testing Chapter Testing Throughout the Network Lifecycle Chapter Testing and Lab Strategy Development Chapter Crafting the Test Approach Chapter Executing the Test Plan Part...

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 23:50

... similar characteristics, including the same cutoff point for a positive test to detect H-FABP It is not known certainly whether the initial and updated versions of the Cardio Detect® test kits were ... of the reports of the patients about the exact onset of their ischemic symptoms may potentially overestimate or underestimate the duration of their ischemic symptoms This may have influenced the ... sensitivity of TnT was expected to be low during the early phase of chest pain, since cardiac troponin may not be detectable for up to h after the onset of chest pain The sensitivity of Cardio Detect...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... in the dispatch and response time performance, but is also evident in the analysis of the mean status times for each of the case type categories Most notable is the status time of the neonatal ... article as: De Vries et al.: A retrospective evaluation of the impact of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal transport service on transport times within an urban setting International Journal of ... performance of obstetric and neonatal incidents The strategy The process adopted in the introduction of the Flying Squad model is significant for understanding its success The engagement of key stakeholders...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... capacity evolution together with an equipment replacement and site upgrade strategy Results show that network operators can get relatively close to their targets, with energy reductions of up to ... extent of this varies from country to country, this assumption is based on the fact that in the case study area, temperatures are always within the operational temperature range of the equipment ... backhaul assumption reflects the situation of most MNOs that not own a fixed network and are required to lease capacity from other operators Results show that the operational costs of a network increase...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... profile The objective of these tests is to evaluate the impact of multicast routing in the traffic for different configurations of the testbed when the network is not fully congested Taking these two ... address The first metric evaluated is the throughput achieved In Table we show the variation of the throughput with the addition of more nodes to the network, both with multicast and unicast routings ... on the operator core or on another access network Thus it is of vital importance that protocols running in the core and ad hoc stub are integratable To provide interconnectivity to the Internet,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... feed effect, it means that the stem is pressed to the disc by itself (Očkajová 1996) To separate the chips the condition that α > β must be met, it means that the force FT is positive Otherwise ... cutting edge from the plane of the disc (mm), Rstr – distance from the disc rotation axis to the half length of the cutting edge of the knife (mm) The technological point of view (disintegration ... efficiency of chip production depend directly on the state and hardness of their cutting edges The cutting knife is characterized by the material and by an angle of the cutting edge β Very important is...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... has been to: 1) Develop mental health transfer protocols to facilitate the transfer of those with severe mental illness to mental health settings 2) Introduce an Integrated Treatment System, which ... it is important to establish a continuous, integrated care pathway that follows the offender ‘journey’ from initial police contact through to eventual resettlement, and that interfaces health ... for stimulants is however often overstated and usually by professionals who are not familiar with the effects of stimulants in the treatment of ADHD First, we know from follow-up studies that the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... aCalculated as the percentage of participants in the treatment arm bCalculated as the percentage of participants in the treatment arm treated with a specified initial modality of renal replacement therapy ... timing of RRT in AKI, we left the decision to start RRT to the treating bedside clinical team Furthermore, the mean blood urea nitrogen at initiation of RRT was lower than that reported in other ... recognize the limits of the treatment and shift our focus to other strategies for prevention and treatment of AKI Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Acknowledgements...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21