The creation of 2D ultrasound mosaics is becoming a common clinical practice with a high clinical value. The next step coming along with the increasing availability of 2D array transducers is the creation of 3D mosaics. In the literature of ultrasound registration, the alignment of multiple images has not yet been addressed. Therefore, we propose registration strategies, which are able to cope with problems arising by multiple image alignment. We use pair-wise registration with a consecutive Lie normalization and simultaneous registration, which urges the usage of multivariate similarity measures. In this thesis, we propose alternative multivariate extensions based on a maximum likelihood framework. Due to the higher computational cost...

ISBN: 978-3-8364-8826-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! InSight is a Mars lander mission planned for launch in 2016. The name stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.

ISBN: 978-5-5147-8126-3

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Le corps des Inspecteurs des Affaires Maritimes a pour fonction d'orienter et de controler l’action des fonctionnaires et des agents des services deconcentres des affaires maritimes. Ils assurent des fonctions administratives et techniques de conception, de gestion et d’inspection dans les services des affaires maritimes et participent a la direction de ces services. Ils peuvent etre appeles a assurer des fonctions au sein de l’administration centrale et dans les etablissements publics qui y sont rattaches. Les inspecteurs sont recrutes sur concours au niveau licence. Ils sont generalement Ingenieur,...

ISBN: 978-6-1337-3250-6
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Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Les installations de premiere classe du Titanic, paquebot transatlantique ayant fait naufrage le 15 avril 1912, sont reputees pour leur luxe et leur diversite. Situees au coeur du navire, la ou les vibrations des machines se font le moins sentir, elles sont destinees a accueillir les passagers les plus fortunes. On trouve ainsi des installations pour divertir les sportifs (court de squash, piscine), des restaurants et cafes, et plusieurs salons. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1326-1949-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology is the international membership body and learned society for all marine professionals, operating in spheres of marine engineering, science or technology. It has registered charity status and is the first professional institution to bring together marine engineers, scientists and technologists into one international multi-disciplinary professional body. It is the largest marine organisation of its kind with a worldwide membership of over 15,000 individuals based in over 100 countries. The institute is also a publisher of books, periodicals, magazines, journals and papers related to marine engineering, science and technology, and organizes meetings, events and conferences related...

ISBN: 978-6-1307-5409-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The Institution of Engineering and Technology is a British professional body for those working in engineering and technology in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It was formed from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers, dating back to 1871, and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers dating back to 1884. Worldwide membership is in excess of 153,000. As of October 2009, the president was Professor Christopher Snowden and the chief executive and secretary was Nigel Fine. The Institution's main offices are in Savoy Place, London, and Michael Faraday House, Stevenage. It also has premises in Birmingham, Glasgow, Edison, Beijing, Hong Kong and Bangalore. The IET is the second largest engineering institution in...

ISBN: 978-6-1307-5273-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Institution of Engineers of Ireland (Irish: Cumann na nInnealtoiri) or the IEI, is the second oldest engineering society in the British Isles, and was established in 1835, the institution primarily represents members based in Ireland. Membership of the institution is open to individuals based on academic and professional background and is separated into grades in accordance with criteria, including the Chartered Engineer and European Engineer titles. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1338-2197-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Differences in product requirements mean packaging often needs special features like child resistance or vacuum sealing. Often these types of specialist packaging cause problems to those with reduced strength or dexterity. The inability to perform the most basic of tasks needed for daily living is a situation that demands research. A device has been designed to measure the loads involved in the opening of child-resistant closures. By replicating the characteristics of these products and integrating force measurement devices, a device has been designed that can measure the isolated loads from each point of contact that is involved in gripping and opening a child-resistant bottle. Данное издание не является...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-2469-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The U.S. military requires the ability to rapidly deploy troops, equipment, and materials anywhere in the world. Recent operations have brought attention to the need to utilize austere, unsurfaced, and sometimes sub-standard airfields within a theater of interest. These airfields may require additional taxiways and aprons. One option for the rapid construction of such is airfield matting systems. The focus of the work for this thesis was commercially available airfield matting systems to support large military transport aircraft, such as the C-17. Several test sections with differing strength soils were built with chosen mats tested in an elimination method, using a load cart that simulates contingency loading of one main gear of the...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-7165-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

An instrument landing system is a ground-based instrument approach system that provides precision guidance to an aircraft approaching and landing on a runway, using a combination of radio signals and, in many cases, high- intensity lighting arrays to enable a safe landing during instrument meteorological conditions, such as low ceilings or reduced visibility due to fog, rain, or blowing snow.Instrument Approach Procedure charts are published for each ILS approach, providing pilots with the needed information to fly an ILS approach during instrument flight rules operations, including the radio frequencies used by the ILS components or navaids and the minimum visibility requirements prescribed for the specific approach.Radio- navigation...

ISBN: 978-6-1306-4280-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Instrumentation and measurement is one of the core subjects in engineering education, usually taught at level one on the Engineering degree, and diploma courses. This book presents a very basic and straightforward introduction to the most common instrumentation and measurements used in engineering practice. Measurements such as Dimensional measurements, Temperature, Pressure, Flow, Force, Electrical Voltage, Current, Resistance and Power are all presented. For every kind of sensor, the basic principle is introduced; describing all the different method each type of measurement is available. This book provide a unique method of presentation, for each subject the theory is described in details, followed by worked examples, and a laboratory...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-0642-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

An instrument approach or instrument approach procedure is a type of air navigation that allows pilots to land an aircraft in reduced visibility, or to reach visual conditions permitting a visual landing.Approaches are classified as either precision or nonprecision, depending on the accuracy and capabilities of the navigational aids used. Precision approaches utilize both lateral and vertical information. Nonprecision approaches provide lateral course information only.The publications depicting instrument approach procedures are called Terminal Procedures, but are commonly referred to by pilots as "approach plates". These documents graphically depict the specific procedure to be followed by a pilot for a particular type of approach to a...

ISBN: 978-6-1306-4814-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This text connects essential knowledge about music and human auditory perception with signal processing algorithms to solve the specific problem of pitch estimation. The designed algorithm obtains an estimate of the magnitude spectrum via STFT and models the harmonic structure of each pitch contained in the magnitude spectrum with Gaussian density mixtures, whose parameters are subsequently estimated via an Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. Heuristics for EM initialization are formulated mathematically. A prototype was implemented in MATLAB, featuring a GUI that provides for visual (spectrogram) and numerical (console) verification of results. The algorithm was tested using an array of data ranging from single to triple superposed...

ISBN: 978-3-8364-6297-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

An Instructional Design Coordinator is a person who is responsible for overseeing the implementation of instructional design techniques, usually in an academic setting or in corporate training. Instructional design became popular in the 1930s, when the United States was developing new instructional techniques, as the need for rapidly training soldiers in a multitude of technical fields rose sharply during World War II. Since then, instructional designers have come up with new and innovative techniques to facilitate learning, using the most advanced technology available to them. Today, instructional design coordinators employ modern technology, such as the Internet, to implement the techniques developed by instructional designers and...

ISBN: 978-6-1307-1076-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This book presents the development and evaluation of an integrated heat, air and moisture simulation environment for modeling and simulating dynamic heat, air and moisture processes in buildings and systems. All models are implemented in the computational software package MatLab with the use of SimuLink and Comsol. More than 25 different heat, air and moisture related models are included in this work. Most of the models are successfully verified (by analytical solutions or by comparison with other simulation results) and/or validated (by experimental data). The use of the simulation environment regarding design problems is demonstrated with case studies. Overall it is concluded that the simulation environment is capable of solving a...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-0669-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! INTEGRITY is a real-time operating system (RTOS) produced and marketed by Green Hills Software. It is royalty-free, POSIX-certified, and intended for use in embedded systems needing reliability, availability, and fault tolerance. It is built atop the velOSity microkernel and is intended mainly for modern 32- or 64- bit embedded system designs that support an MMU. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1340-0465-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Many problems in tracking control have been identified over the years, such as the availability of systems states, the presence of noise and system uncertainties, and speed of response, just to name a few. This research is concerned with developing novel integrated control and estimation algorithms to overcome some of these problems in order to achieve an efficient tracking performance. Since there are some significant advantages associated with Sliding Mode Control (SMC) or Variable Structure Control (VSC), (fast regulation rate and robustness to uncertainties), this research reviews and extends new filtering concepts for state estimation, referred to as the Variable Structure Filter (VSF) and Smooth Variable Structure Filter (SVSF)....

ISBN: 978-3-6390-4251-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Based on the idea of self-assembled monolayers of alkanethiols on gold, it was the goal of this thesis to develop a versatile model system for an efficient and straightforward characterization of cell - biomaterial interactions on PEG-rich surfaces. The necessary compounds for this model system should allow for mimicking the surface of polymeric poly(ethylene glycol)-rich biomaterials used for the design of cell carriers. By evaluating the adsorption of proteins and the adhesion characteristics of mammalian cells on these artificial surfaces, conclusions can be drawn, on how polymers should be engineered to achieve an optimal adhesion, growth or proliferation of cells. In particular, the consequences of an attachment of peptidic cell...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-4200-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Simple systems, software or hardware, can be tested easily. Nowadays, simple systems do not exist anymore and testing becomes a real problem. Often, testing is considered in isolation, while the moment that testing can start is defined by the moment that the module is delivered. Delivered modules need to be assembled into the rest of the system, before testing can start. This book starts with the assumption that integration (assembly) and testing cannot be seen apart from each other. Strategies for integration and strategies for the individual test tasks can not be seen apart from each other when integration and test tasks are mixed. A framework is introduced, in this book, that can be applied for integration and testing problems in...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-9591-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This book addresses the modeling methodologies and operational strategies for managing integrated diamond interchange ramp-metering traffic control systems. Diamond interchanges and their associated ramps are where the surface street arterial system and the freeway system interface. Historically, these two elements of the system have operated with little or no coordination between the two. Therefore, there is a lack of both analysis tools and operational strategies for considering them as an integrated system. A model named DRIVE (Diamond Interchange and Ramp Metering Integration Via Evaluation) was developed, which was characterized as a mesoscopic simulation and analysis model. DRIVE incorporated some enhanced modeling methodologies...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-7795-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An integrated gasification combined cycle is a technology that turns coal into gas—synthesis gas. It then removes impurities from the coal gas before it is combusted and attempts to turn any pollutants into re-usable byproducts. This results in lower emissions of sulfur dioxide, particulates and mercury. Excess heat from the primary combustion and generation is then passed to a steam cycle, similarly to a combined cycle gas turbine. This then also results in improved efficiency compared to conventional pulverized coal. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...

ISBN: 978-6-1327-3600-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The wireless communication systems have become an important part of our lives. The ever increasing demand toward lower cost makes the task of the wireless communication circuit designer more and more challenging. This demand translates into the specifications as the need of designing the circuits with lower power consumption, with smaller die area but without any compromise from the final goal of higher performance. The circuit design for wireless transceiver front-ends has an additional complexity due to the high frequency of operation involved. This book includes discussions on the fully-integrated VCOs, prescalers and Q-enhanced LC bandpass filters on silicon within the framework of RF integrated circuit design for wireless...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-7430-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Integrity of petroleum wells requires sealing off the casing/welbore annulus with cement to prevent migration of fluids. Leak-off test (LOT) is an in- situ method for testing casing shoe integrity. A conventional analysis of LOT data assumes elastic wellbore and involves finding the upper limit of linear relationship between the recorded pressure vs. pumped volume. However, LOT data from offshore well sections in shallow marine sediments (SMS) are inherently nonlinear and their analysis is a problem. Presented here is a study into the mechanism and effect of LOT on integrity of the casing shoe in SMS. The study begins with review of available leak- off pressure field data from SMS comparing to data from deep well sections. Then, using...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-0925-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Integrated Undersea Surveillance System insignia is a military badge of the United States Navy which has been in existence since the 1990s. The insignia is awarded to those personnel who have been trained and qualified in naval sonar and undersea surveillance technology. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1328-0518-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

There are a lot of motivations to make research in the automotive field: safety, comfort, performance and other related issues. Vehicle Safety Technology (VST) is a term used by the automotive industry applied to technologies focused on ensuring safety and performance of vehicle. Analyzing the overall driver task we may observe that it is non trivial from a control viewpoint: the driver directly controls only one state variable (or one combination of them) by the front steering angle (the yaw rate when he is negotiating a turn or the lateral deviation, which is directly related to the lateral speed, when he is performing an overtaking); the lateral speed steady state value changes with longitudinal speed; the lateral speed transfer...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-3680-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011