MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems) technologies and micromachining techniques have been increasingly employed in the integration of microfluidic devices designed to automate the generation and analysis of biomedical samples. Miniaturized devices for electrophoresis separation and sensing mechanisms have been successfully developed and provide such benefits as lower sample consumption, higher resolution, and improved detection speeds. However, the sample pretreatment process still requires significant time and effort. Therefore, an emerging requirement exists to develop integrated microfluidic systems for sample pretreatment operations such as cell culture monitoring, cell lysis, DNA extraction, DNA/reagent mixing and DNA...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-3404-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Integrated services digital network is a set of communications standards enabling traditional telephone lines to carry voice, digital network services, and video. Prior to ISDN, the phone system was viewed as a way to transport voice, with some special services available for data. The key feature of the ISDN is that it integrates speech and data on the same lines, adding features that were not available in the classic telephone system. There are several kinds of access interfaces to ISDN defined as basic rate interface, primary rate interface and broadband ISDN. ISDN is a circuit-switched telephone network system, which also provides access to packet switched networks, designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over...

ISBN: 978-6-1306-0388-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 978-3-8383-4826-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Process industries are facing an increasingly challenging environment due to the highly competitive markets, dwindling resources, increasing demand for better quality products and stringent environmental regulations. To handle this, major changes are occurring in the process industry including revamps of the existing processes and emergence of new, sophisticated processes. Process management becomes very important in this situation to ensure a safe, economic, and environmental-friendly process. Traditional approaches to process management like expert systems, phenomenological models etc. are not adequate. This book discusses a novel approach to manage the process by autonomously generating linguistic cause-and-effect rules from the...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-0684-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Da herkommliche TV-Ubertragungsmedien wie Satellit oder Kabel-TV Broadcast-Medien sind haben sie den Nachteil, dass derselbe Inhalt an alle Empfanger ubertragen wird. Es ist also keine Zielrichtung moglich. Es erfolgt auch ein zeitgleicher Empfang fur alle Zuseher. Die Sendeanstalten geben also den Zeitablauf vor. Es gibt ausserdem keine Interaktivitat. Fernsehen uber das Internet Protokoll (IPTV) wird diese Nachteile beseitigen. Es kann gezielt gesteuert werden welcher Empfanger bestimmte Inhalte empfangen soll. Dies eroffnet neue Wege fur die Werbung. Im Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Standard ist ein Ruckkanal definiert, der bisher nicht gekannte Arten der Interaktivitat ermoglicht. Wie schon von digitalen Sat-Receivern bekannt...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-3239-0
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

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

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

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

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

In this book, we describe the proposed pedestrian classification and tracking system that is able to track and label multiple people in an outdoor environment such as a railway station. We propose an approach that combines blob matching with particle filtering to track multiple people in the scene, i.e., the proposed method selects the successful features of blob matching and particle filtering for tracking. In addition, a novel appearance model derived from the colour information from both the moving regions and theoriginal input colour image is proposed to track people in the event of poor foreground extraction. Additionally, the proposed appearance model also includes spatial information of the human body in both vertical and...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-6935-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This book helps to bridge the gap between conventional product manuals and the paradigm of just-in-time knowledge delivery, which enables corporate knowledge to be captured and delivered when, where and in the form users need it. The book introduces Intelligent Product Manuals (IPMs), which are computerised product support systems that employ product life-cycle information, expert knowledge and hypermedia to provide just–in–time support to users during the life of a product. Next, the book concentrates on the need for adaptive product support and promotes the Adaptive IPMs that respond to user information goals by generating user- and task-specific information. Finally, the book suggests a concurrent engineering approach to the...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-3144-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! L'intelligence artificielle ou informatique cognitive est la « recherche de moyens susceptibles de doter les systemes informatiques de capacites intellectuelles comparables a celles des etres humains ». Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1327-3767-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Intelligent Parking Assist System (IPAS), also known as the Advanced Parking Guidance System (APGS) for Lexus models in the United States, is the first production automatic parking system developed by Toyota Motor Corporation in 2004 initially for the Japanese market hybrid Prius models and later Lexus models. The technology assists drivers in parking their vehicle. On vehicles equipped with the IPAS, via an in-dash screen and button controls, the car can steer itself into a parking space with little input from the user. The first version of the system was deployed on the Prius Hybrid sold in Japan in 2003. In 2006, an upgraded version debuted for the first time outside Japan on the Lexus LS...

ISBN: 978-6-1340-6480-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 8086 (also called iAPX86) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel, which gave rise to the x86 architecture; development work on the 8086 design started in the spring of 1976 and the chip was introduced to the market in the summer of 1978. The Intel 8088, released in 1979, was a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus (allowing the use of cheaper and fewer supporting logic chips), and is notable as the processor used in the original IBM PC. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1318-4229-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have given rise to many paradigms including Artificial Neural networks, Fuzzy Logic and genetic Algorithm for solving complex tasks like modeling, detection and prediction. This book describes the use of intelligent and adaptive technologies for successfully tackling prediction, detection, segmentation and modeling tasks in modern clinics both at the anatomical and biological level. This guide gives the reader practical examples of utilizing advanced artificial intelligence paradigms in a clinical setting. Different applications of signal and image processing illustrate how intelligent biomedical tools can be developed for modeling, detection and prediction tasks from clinical data. Finally, the...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-6923-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! L' intelligence ambiante est ce que pourrait devenir l'informatique dans la premiere moitie du 21eme siecle en repoussant les limites technologiques qu'elle avait a la fin du XXeme siecle. Ce concept semble pouvoir tenir lieu de traduction non litterale aux concepts nes en Amerique du Nord sous le vocable initial de « Informatique Ubiquitaire », « Systemes Pervasifs » ou encore « Ordinateur evanescent ». Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1327-3775-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Supply Chain Management has become the primary competitive weapon in many industries. This book describes a model of intelligent supply chain networks that will improve information visibility and flow within the supply chain. In the proposed model, products will have the intelligence to direct themselves throughout the distribution network and will have the capability to be purchased and sold while in transit. The book gives an overview of the supporting technologies that make such a supply chain a reality. It is intended to provide a preliminary outlook at the various issues related to implementation and could be used for future research as a basis for building the infrastructure required for the new model. An effort has been made to...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-0257-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Intensive farming or intensive agriculture is an agricultural production system characterized by the high inputs of capital, labour, or heavy usage of technologies such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area. This is in contrast to many forms of sustainable agriculture such as organic farming or extensive agriculture, which involve a relatively low input of materials and labour, relative to the area of land farmed, and which focus on maintaining long-term ecological health of farmland, so that it can be farmed indefinitely. Modern day forms of intensive crop based agriculture involve the use of mechanical ploughing, chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, plant growth regulators and/or...

ISBN: 978-6-1302-1030-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi) typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more nuclear warheads). Most modern designs support multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), allowing a single missile to carry several warheads, each of which can strike a different target.

ISBN: 978-5-5091-8476-5

An intermodal container or freight container (commonly shipping container) is a reusable transport and storage unit for moving products and raw materials between locations or countries; the terms container or box may be used on their own within the context of shipping. Containers manufactured to ISO specifications may be referred to as ISO containers and the term high-cube container is used for units that are taller than normal. There are approximately seventeen million intermodal containers in the world and a large proportion of the world's long distance freight generated by international trade is transported inside shipping containers (as opposed to break bulk cargo). The containerization system developed from a design of an 8-foot...

ISBN: 978-6-1307-5796-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011