... cost Maintenance cost includes labor and materials for airframes and engines Included in ownership cost are insurance, depreciation, and amortization for both operating leases (rentals) and capital ... uncertainties associated with the radiative forcing effect of aviation emissions, as they are mainly attributable to limited scientific understanding and uncertainty in industry growth and technological ... Combustor design changes to offset this effect may result in increased weight and complexity in engine design Further, higher efficiency engines (lower CO2) increase the potential for contrail formulation...
... real and inertial forces acting on the considered part of the chain The system r r of forces includes gravity forces, inertial forces, joint force FS , and joint couple MS j j The inertial load ... Position and speed define the state of each link of a kinematic chain and accordingly the state of the entire chain The position was discussed previously and it was found that the joint coordinates ... made in joint Sj and the in uence of the preceding link is r r expressed in terms of force FS and couple MS Now, we apply D’Alambert’s principle and establish j j the equilibrium of the real and...
... processing for hearing aids Since 2001, he has been in charge of the Audiology and Signal Processing Department Signal Processing in High-End Hearing Aids J Chalupper was born in Munich, Germany, in ... main research area is within audio signal processing applications for hearing aids, such as noise reduction, beamforming, and feedback cancellation U Rass studied electrical engineering focusing ... research interests cover a broad range of topics from communications and signal processing including digital watermarking, steganography, information theory, audio and speech processing and classification...
... of the state of the art and current trendsinrobotdesignandapplication Industrial and service robots will be considered and typical examples of their system design will be presented in two ... Cylindrical and Spherical Robots Cylindrical and spherical robots have two rotary and one prismatic joint A cylindrical robot s arm forms a cylindrical coordinate system, and a spherical robot ... being refueled by a robot (left) and a touch-screen terminal for inserting credit card, entering refilling order and printing (right) (From Leondes, C.T., Mechatronic Systems Techniques and Applications,...
... back in the past for instance (t = ) to another (different) population te be measured in the future (t = ) The initial quantum state (t = ) is represented by the ket and stands for the final state ... states transforming according to different irreducible representations of the same symmetry group (implying different constraints) and, thereby, representing a subset of all excited states (for ... can be finally written (see ref.[29]) as: (26) In the state basis diagonalizing Ho the mixing of states is due to the coupling operator W In the P-space one has the ingoing quantum statefor the...
... resources in England and Wales – current stateandfuture pressures Using water in England and Wales 3.1 Using freshwater resources One way to consider how much we use water resources in England and ... Environment Agency Water resources in England and Wales – current stateandfuture pressures Introduction Water is essential for human life and to sustain a diverse and thriving water environment It is ... Water resources in England and Wales – current stateandfuture pressures Contents Introduction Available water 2.1 Freshwater resources Using water in England and Wales 3.1 Using freshwater resources...
... banished in order to describe the stand history, the past and the present forest dynamic and to provide a future reference between managed and unmanaged stands Information for forest stand retrospective ... that gave rise to the present stand in plot occurred in the five-year interval of 1935; indeed, intense logging was carried out in the Buscaié forest during that interval, andin the plot more than ... occurring synchronously in neighbouring trees and showing a slow decrease in the following years due to ageing or to closure of the canopy [20, 27, 55] We defined a release as a sudden increase in...
... Trendsin Intelligent Systemsand Computer Engineering Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Volume Trendsin Intelligent Systemsand Computer Engineering Oscar Castillo, Li Xu, and Sio-Iong ... Hara, K.J Mackin, K Yoshida (2005) Knowledge discovery and data mining in medicine In: N Pal and L.C Jain (eds) Advanced Techniques in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining pp 177–210, Springer 11 A ... Cork, Ireland Eleni Mangina Department of Computer Science and Informatics, University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Sukanya Manna Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,...
... recently, the demand for polyolefin products having a shorter lifetime has arisen, primarily in single-use packaging applications but also for a variety of agricultural products andin hygiene applications ... leading to oxidation product formation and chain scissions It has been estimated that, in oxidized solid PE, more than 80% of the oxygen-containing products are represented by carbon chains bearing ... for at least 80% of the products containing ketone and carboxyl groups [13] Carboxylic acids tend to accumulate during prolonged exposure times since other oxygen-containing products formed in...
... (mainly causes by calcineurin inhibitors - CNI), and rejection In general, imaging tools in evaluating MC following renal transplantation are non-specific [24-26] The major role of imaging in ... dysfunction due to inflammation T-cell-mediated rejection can also present as an increasing creatinine level and 31 32 Current Issues andFuture Direction in Kidney Transplantation diminished urinary output ... 3] For cadaver’s donors, cause of brain death, age, plasma levels of creatinine and hemodynamic stability are the main factors for evaluating a potential donor In contradistinction, the imaging...
... I/O Global Command and Control System–Maritime Indications and Warning input/output INFOCON Information Conditions IO information operations IP Internet Protocol ISO International Standards Organization ... persons involved in other aspects of information operations (IO), including exploitation and attack PREVIOUS RESEARCH In 1999, Anderson et al at RAND published Securing the U.S Defense Information Infrastructure: ... reduction in critical DoD information systems Its main contribution was a listing of 20 generic areas of potential vulnerability in complex information systems used for command, control (C2) and intelligence...
... pain, S weden, S witzerland, Turkey and UK; 2010 data includes Ireland in money market, long-term and total net sales only (2) 37 countries reported in 2010:Q1; 40 in 2010:Q2, 2010:Q3 and 41 in ... steep increase in net inflows in the second quarter recording net inflows of €70 billion, compared to inflows of €42 billion in the first quarter Both the United States and Europe enjoyed increased ... EFAMA International Statistical Release (2011:Q2) On a U.S dollar-denominated basis and taking into account funds of funds, investment fund assets worldwide increased 1.7 percent in the second...
... except for Hong Kong, New Zealand and Trinidad & Tobago, which include home- and foreign-domiciled funds Local currency values for euro-area countries are reported in euros beginning in 1999 ... Finland Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Asia and Pacific Australia China India Japan Korea, Rep of New Zealand Pakistan Philippines ... Funds of funds are not included, except for France, Germany, Italy, and Luxembourg Home-domiciled funds, except for New Zealand and Trinidad & Tobago, which include home- and foreign-domiciled funds...
... defined as: basic groundwork, mainly of ~heoretical interest application/ development (=A) - defined as: mainly of interest for working systems, applicable to routine tasks Therefore every single ... mainly involved in research (defined as: basic groundwork, mainly of theoretical interest, experimental environment) or in application/ development (defined as: mainly of interest from the point ... Restricted Input tr3 Interactive Translation Systems tr4 Fully Automatic Translation Systems tr5 Multilingual Translation Systems tr6 Integration of Information and Translation Systems rel Iterative Index...
... preoccupied with stopping our economies from deteriorating any more They are in fact in a saving assets mode of thinking by taking over key industries and banks This means that in the USA, and the UK most ... profits, and mini-booms in both India, and China In the Philippines tens of thousands of jobs were created by National Banks in the western World that outsourced traditional accounting, and call ... Gambling is legal in many Countries, andin many US states If it became legal in all US States, then the novelty of gambling could wear off, and like in Europe, casinos are part of the landscape but...
... 2008 and 2009, stateand local retireresulted in a total stateand local pension ment systems lost a combined $15 bilfund shortfall of at least $18.2 billion lion in net investments before gaining ... imbalance in the state s finances; • Many governments in Michigan are spending more than they are taking in To support their spending, they have drained their savings, borrowed money, and failed ... Association for providing valuable input And many thanks to you, our readers, for your interest andfor being part of the historic change that will make Michigan a leader in the new economy Sincerely,...
... (mainly causes by calcineurin inhibitors - CNI), and rejection In general, imaging tools in evaluating MC following renal transplantation are non-specific [24-26] The major role of imaging in ... dysfunction due to inflammation T-cell-mediated rejection can also present as an increasing creatinine level and 31 32 Current Issues andFuture Direction in Kidney Transplantation diminished urinary output ... 3] For cadaver’s donors, cause of brain death, age, plasma levels of creatinine and hemodynamic stability are the main factors for evaluating a potential donor In contradistinction, the imaging...
... particular, we are interested in conditions for converting the driftless control system (7.44) into chained form by means of the invertible input transformation v = β(q)u and the change of coordinates z ... kinematic models of practical wheeled mobile robots For the case m ≥ andfor the corresponding multi-chain forms, the reader is referred to [54], where these canonical forms were originally introduced ... columns g1 and g2 of G In particular, denoting by u1 the driving velocity and by u2 the steering velocity input, the following kinematic control system is obtained cos θ q = sin θ...
... Family In order to extract or modify the spatial information in remote sensing images, spatial transforms represent also a very interesting tool Some of these transforms use only local image information ... wavelet transform [41,42] and the contourlet transform [43-45] has been used in pansharpening using the basic idea of extracting the spatial detail information from the PAN image not presentin the ... usually, a linear transformation and substitution for some components in the transformed domain (2) Relative Spectral Contribution family, which includes BT, IM and P+XS, where a linear combination...
... simplicity and direct implementation 4.4 Training Algorithm The classification process basically consists of two phases: training phase and testing phase A training set is used in supervised training ... that certain value A minimum SNR for which the FRP is less than 1%, SNRmin has been considered in these results Accordingly, the SNRmin for inter-class recognition (Case I) is dB, for inter-class ... and allows speeding its learning process and reducing its size Among several possible features selection algorithms, we will investigate principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminate...