... capability of Washington State pulp and paper mills The sources and types of fuels used in various boilers were assessed and the age profile of boilers currently in pulp and paper mills was determined ... from energy policies that recognize and reward currentand potential contributions of the pulp and paper industry to the achievement of State energy objectives and sustainable use of forest resources ... power producers, and the pulp and paper industry (http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy00osti/27980.pdf) The pulp and paper industry is the largest producer of biomass electricity and heat and steam It is...
... Supply and Demand Relationships Within a Space Wing: Supply, Demand, and Integrator Roles 19 Balancing Supply and Demand Is Central to Preserving and Protecting Capabilities Now and in ... systems and tools, and training and education RAND Project AIR FORCE RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development ... stations and command -and- control centers to perform current operations If, on the other hand, the integrator is too 16 Space Command Sustainment Review: Improving the Balance close to the demand side,...
... enables identification and quantification without derivatization and typically results in lower detection limits (below ng/L and ng/g for liquid and solid samples, respectively) and better precision ... al [4] and Thomas and Hilton [77] in the UK; Heberer et al [35] and Ternes et al [73] in Germany; Halling-Sørensen et al [34] in Denmark; Buser et al [10] and Tixier et al [77] in Switzerland; ... human drug and biologics applications US Dept of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, US Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research...
... Outlook has also been tested and evaluated [18] Rios and Zha [19] also experiment with SVMs, along with random forests (RFs) and naive Bayesian filters They conclude that SVM and RF classifiers are ... Applications and the Internet, 2003, pages 166-169, 27-31 Jan 2003 [19] G Rios and H Zha Exploring support vector machines and random forests for spam detection In Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, ... stream, and filter it based on a universal rule set for all users Advantages of such an approach include centralised administration and maintenance, limited demands on the end user, and the ability...
... 1929, and the crash of 2009 People own more, expect more, and the economies of the World are very different Between 1989 and 2008, most people's lives improved in the developed World, and attitudes ... over key industries and banks This means that in the USA, and the UK most Mortgaged property, private business and in part many corporations are in reality owned by the state Command – Supply Economies ... historic Russian and Chinese pact? As Europe and the USA struggle with the burst credit bubble, and reinvent capitalism to save their faltering economies Two anxious giants look on, Russia and China...
... societies, and individual and honorary membership schemes are also offered INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH Relevant Theory andInformed Practice IFIP TC8 / WG8.2 Year Retrospective: Relevant Theory andInformed ... electronically, associate editors and reviewers to be assigned by the cochairs, reviews and reports to be garnered and evaluated, decisions and recommendations to be made and recorded, and accept/reject letters ... Organizations and Society: Speculating on the Next 25 Years of Research Steve Sawyer and Kevin Crowston 35 Information Systems Research as Design: Identity, Process, and Narrative Richard J Boland, Jr., and...
... arm inertia, , and are the angular position and its derivatives, Cv and Cs are respectively the viscous and dry friction coefficients, Mx and My represent the load among x and y axes Being ... models: friction, gravity and rated flow (converted into torque units) 8 Robotics 2010: Currentand Future Challenges Table and Table present the performance for both oil and water Obviously internal ... 70 (a) (b) Fig 10 Current sent to servovalve (a) and measured torque (b) at different time steps Fig 10 presents for some cycles (random selection) the evolution of the currentand the torque for...
... ΓTAW (4) 270 Robotics 2010: Currentand Future Challenges where TMotor , THull and TAW denote kinetic energies of the motor, hull and the angled wheels, respectively, and Γ denotes the number of ... Flexible belt (the middle) and belt with grousers (the right) Fig Vertebral structure of FMT: 3D CAD image (the left) and its anatomy chart (the right) 246 Robotics 2010: Currentand Future Challenges ... retro-flex Fig Mechanism for track belt drive and flexion: Powered vertebra (the first and the second figures from the left) and Idler vertebra (the first and the second figures from the right) 3.2...
... that regulates cell metabolism and growth (Chaves, 2010), and has Breast Cancer – Currentand Alternative Therapeutic Modalities been associated with increased risk and maintenance of multiple cancers ... SKBR3 and BT474 trastuzumab-sensitive cells and trastuzumab-resistant HCC1419, HCC1954, and JIMT-1 cells were examined by Western blotting for p27 and actin internal control (B) BT474 and acquired ... Cancer Center and Research Institute, FL 5PresentAddress: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX USA * 24 Breast Cancer – Currentand Alternative Therapeutic Modalities Bcl2 and cyclin...
... 1929, and the crash of 2009 People own more, expect more, and the economies of the World are very different Between 1989 and 2008, most people's lives improved in the developed World, and attitudes ... over key industries and banks This means that in the USA, and the UK most Mortgaged property, private business and in part many corporations are in reality owned by the state Command – Supply Economies ... historic Russian and Chinese pact? As Europe and the USA struggle with the burst credit bubble, and reinvent capitalism to save their faltering economies Two anxious giants look on, Russia and China...
... that regulates cell metabolism and growth (Chaves, 2010), and has Breast Cancer – Currentand Alternative Therapeutic Modalities been associated with increased risk and maintenance of multiple cancers ... SKBR3 and BT474 trastuzumab-sensitive cells and trastuzumab-resistant HCC1419, HCC1954, and JIMT-1 cells were examined by Western blotting for p27 and actin internal control (B) BT474 and acquired ... Cancer Center and Research Institute, FL 5PresentAddress: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX USA * 24 Breast Cancer – Currentand Alternative Therapeutic Modalities Bcl2 and cyclin...
... 67 Wenbo Zhu and Guangmei Yan Chapter DNA Double-Strand Breaks Repair and Signaling of Human Gliomas and Normal Brain Cells in Response to Radiation: Potential Impact of the ATMand BRCA1- Dependent ... Bell, Mersiha Hadziahmetovic and Arnab Chakravarti Chemotherapy and Other Therapeutic Strategies 143 Glioblastoma: Current Chemotherapeutic Status and Need for New Targets and Approaches Aditi Jain, ... (1980) Animal models and virus induction of tumours In: Brain Tumours Scientific Basis, Clinical Investigation andCurrent Therapy Thomas D.G.T., and Graham, D.I (Eds) Butterworth and Co., pp: 51-84...
... manuscript; and J Alejandro for technical assistance 28 Integrated Pest Management and Pest Control – Currentand Future Tactics References Adamczyk, J J., Jr & Gore, J (2004) Laboratory and field ... Dalva Luiz de Queiroz, Daniel Burckhardt and Jonathan Majer Chapter 18 Biological and Ecological Studies on Land Snails and Their Control Ahmed Sallam and Nabil El-Wakeil 413 Contents Chapter ... problems; and augmenting activity of beneficial insects 2.5 Biorational and botanical insecticides Some registered and produced biorational and botanical insecticides are shown in Tables and 18...
... severity of disease, and how standard therapies impact the regimen being examined Current treatment approaches also influence sample size estimates and the length of follow-up As CYC and prednisone ... remission, and relapse? Concurrent therapies Were immunosuppressive therapies used concurrently with the agent or regimen being studied? Standardization Did all enrolled patients receive a standarized ... retrospective nonstandardized series and from prospective inception cohort studies [14] Prospective standardized data involving more than 10 patients are available from two nonrandomized studies and from...
... 2, (29) 52 Robotics 2010: Currentand Future Challenges and then define Γr ¯ Γ22 , and Γo ¯ Γ12 (30) Now, substituting (25) into (22) and then using definitions (28) and (29), we arrive at vr ... (1992); Gu (2000); Gu and Loh (1987); Herman (2005); Herman and Kozlowski (2006); Jain and Rodriguez (1995); Junkins and Schaub (1997); Kodischeck (1985); Kozlowski (1998); Loduha and Ravani (1995); ... Transactions on Robotics and Automation 9(5): 571 – 580 44 Robotics 2010: Currentand Future Challenges Modeling and Control of Mechanical Systems in Terms of Quasi-Velocities 45 Modeling and Control of...
... boundedness Berghuis and Nijmeijer (1994); Egeland (1987); Qu and Dawson (1996) and nonlinear structure variable or switching controller that can guarantee global stability Liu and Goldenberg (1996); ... z, s and s being the generalized forces, coordinates, velocities and accelerations, re˙ ¨ spectively M , C and g consist in the positive definite and symmetric mass matrix, the Coriolis and centrifugal-forces ... documented in the text book of (Qu and Dawson, 1996) and proven by a series of journal publications (Abdallah et al., 1991; Berghuis and Nijmeijer, 1994; Egeland, 1987; Qu and Dorsey, 1991a;b), the robustness...
... q1 q1 max and q q q max • The object and the floor contact at a point and the object does not rotational motion • A mode where both contact points (hand and object / object and floor) are ... hands must have the same size and number of fingers and a tactile sense similar to those of the human hand It is necessary to develop dexterous robot hands Examples of multi-fingered robot hands ... joint angles of the manipulator and their velocities and also • position and velocity of the object and the ones of contact point • contact mode at contact point and (stick/slip to positive direction...
... end and the right end of the rope are represented by l1 and l2, and the left end and the right end of the object are represented by r1 and r2 The description of intersections on the rope and ... q 1and q3 are set to 90° The initial values of q5 and q6 are set to 0°, respectively q2 and q4, corresponding to θ1 and θ2 in Fig (a), respectively, are controlled by the neural oscillators and ... and to define the relationship between the knotting process and the individual skills that can be performed by a robot hand (Yamakawa et al., 2008) Finally, two kinds of knot (overhand knot and...
... by the robot hand in knot manipulation Finally, we demonstrated productions of an overhand knot and a half hitch by using a highspeed multifingered hand with high-speed visual and tactile sensory ... High-speed Multifingered Hand and a High-speed Vision System, Proc IEEE Int Conf on Robotics and Automation, pp 181-187 Inoue, H & Inaba, M (1984) Hand-eye Coordination in Rope Handling, Robotics Research: ... Bouri1, Reymond Clavel1, Yves Allemand2 and Roland Brodard2 1EPFL, LSRO Station 9, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 2FSC, Rue du Commerce 2,1870 Monthey 2, Switzerland Introduction In industrialized...
... right and left driving wheels, and ρis the distance from the rotational center to the center of TW-2 Fig 20 shows the rotational angles and load current values corresponding to the right and left ... right and left wheels of TW-2 and the midpoints of the right and left wheels It was found that TW-2 is rotated by making the left driving wheel the center of rotation Robotics 2010: Currentand ... track which wraps around the vehicle body, and the body flexes in three dimensions when the vehicle turns, climbs up and down stairs, and so on (see the left and right figures of Fig.3) Fig Flexible...