... reads the annual TRNSYS heatingandcooling load profile so as to determine the values of the peak heatingandcooling loads for each month of the year (see Table 2) and their durations. Moreover, ... geometrical attributes and infH the factor of opening’s position and air force exposure. Annual heating demand of the building is 33.78 kWh/m2 whereas cooling demand is 27.34 kWh/m2. ... simulation for the heating season than that with 100 m borehole length. Judging from Eqs. (8) and (9) the borehole wall temperature evaluations are closer for the heating season than for the cooling...
... estimation for OFDM systems For wide-band wireless communication systems, the channel is time varying and dispersive fading, which will distort the transmitted signal. Thus, the accurate and real-time ... of thesis entitled “A Study of Channel Estimation for OFDM Systemsand System Capacity for MIMO-OFDM Systems Submitted by Zhou Wen For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the university ... between the velocity of the mobile handset in the radial direction of the mobile handset and the base station. Assuming that the arrival angles of the signal is uniformly distributed in the...
... Cellular Systems 252.2.2 Digital Second Generation Systems 252.3 First 3G Systems 272.3.1 Requirements for 3G 272.3.2 Evolution of 2G Systems towards 3G 292.3.3 Worldwide 3G Standardisation Efforts ... ControlMAHO Mobile Assisted HandoverMA Mobile Allocation (of radio frequency channels) in GSMMAI Multiple Access InterferenceMAIO Mobile Allocation Index Offset (for frequency hopping in GSM)MBS Mobile ... COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 5(GSM) for instance features an SFH option, the benefits of which are discussed extensivelyin Chapter 4. For one 2G system called cdmaOne and most 3G systems, e.g. the Universal Mobile Telecommunications...
... suitable for mobile robot applications. In this section we introduce two such systems. 2.3.6.1 The Andrew “Autogyro"Andrew Corp. [ANDREW] offers the low-cost Autogyro, shown in Figure 2.11, for ... in inertialnavigation systemsfor the Boeing 757 and 767 in the early 1980s, and over half a million fiber-opticnavigation systems have been installed in Japanese automobiles since 1987 [Reunert, ... specifications for the AndrewAutogyro Navigator (Courtesy of [Andrew Corp].)Figure 2.12: The Andrew AUTOGYRO Navigator.(Courtesy of [Andrew Corp].)in [Allen et al., 1994; Bennett and Emge,1994].In...
... course and velocity information over a given length of time [Dunlap and Shufeldt,1972]. The vast majority of land-based mobile robotic systems in use today rely on dead reckoningto form the ... 1.14: An 8-DOF platform with four wheels individually driven and steered.This platform was designed and built by Unique Mobility, Inc. (Courtesy of[UNIQUE].)slippage for their two-wheel ... position. 20 Part I Sensors forMobile Robot Positioning For completeness, we rewrite the well-known equations for odometry below (also, see [Klarer,1988; Crowley and Reignier, 1992]). Suppose...
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... the basis for quantitative standards for school meals and is provided as guidance by theDepartment for Education and Skills inits nutritional guidelines for schoollunches.2Practical and nutritionalguidelines ... residential and nursing homes, and in the community,both to raise the profile of eating well for older people and to providepractical guidance for those who workin this sector andfor those ... summaryof the standards for England and Wales which relate to food and nutrition is given in Appendix 2.Scottish nursing home care standardsgo further in their requirement thatall nursing homes demonstrate...
... requirements for initializing and validating upper-ocean mixed-layer models. Such model systems provide a dynamic framework for the assimilation of satellite and in situ observations and the forecasting ... platforms. International collaboration on such systems is recent,2 and the current and nearer-term sensor systems have not been well coordinated. For example,one may find several platforms ... provide candid and critical comments that will assist the authors and the NRC in making the published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutionalstandards for objectivity,...
... aerospace forces. Research isperformed in four programs: Aerospace Force Development;Manpower, Personnel, and Training; Resource Management; and Strategy and Doctrine.Additional information ... defense community for the last threedecades of the Cold War. Forces and command and control sys-tems had to survive long enough to launch a successful secondstrike, and warning systems had to ... needs nuclear forces, what those forcesneed to be able to do, and what criteria an effective U.S. nuclear forceneeds to meet. In the meantime, U.S. nuclear policy and strategicforce structure...
... local and remote tasks (proc- esses), synchronization of their execution, data exchange between tasks (including re- formatting), and exception handling. The commands for the local systems ... companion data- transforming processors that convert data produced by the transformed commands into data compatible with the commands in the source format. For example, a data- transforming processor ... format (source format) to another format (target format). Transforming processors provide a type of data independence called data model transparency in which the data structures and commands...