Inspired by the pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and motion picture projection by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878 and by the high speed films of Harold Edgerton by the middle of the 20th century, the use of video has rapidly emerged nowadays as a powerful tool to teach physics at schools and universities, capturing what the human eye could not distinguish. To highlight the advantage...

Sensor networks consist of a potentially huge number of very small and resource limited self-organizing devices. This paper presents the design of a general distributed service directory architecture for sensor networks which especially focuses on the security issues in sensor networks. It ensures secure construction and maintenance of the underlying storage structure, a Content Addressable Net...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) received an order for its Crystal Mover for Changi International Airport of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), to serve as the transportation system connecting its terminals where the newly constructed Terminal 3 is a symbol of the New Singapore Changi Airport. The new transportation system is characterized by its innovative and futuristic ...

Electrospun nanofibrous scaffolds have become widely investigated for tissue engineering applications, owing to their ability to replicate the scale and organization of many fiber-reinforced soft tissues such as the knee meniscus, the annulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc, tendon, and cartilage. However, due to their small pore size and dense packing of fibers, cellular ingress into elect...

A control system usually consists of some control software as well as sensors and actuators to monitor and control certain quantities in the environment. The context of the control software thus consists of the sensors and actuators it uses and the environment. When starting development of the control software, its context is often not predefined or given. There are contextual decisions the dev...

The Career Adapt-Abilities Scale – South African Form (CAAS) consists of four scales, each with six items that measure concern, control, curiosity, and confidence as psychosocial resources for managing occupational transitions, developmental tasks and work traumas. Internal consistency estimates for the subscale and total scores ranged from good to excellent. The factor structure was similar to...

This research was done in order to describe the content of proposed lyrics’ concepts in permissible pop music based on published audio works’ list of music publication office in 2009 among 200 albums of music office published audio works,  the 10 number of pop singers were randomly selected and the lyrics’ concept of 70 music were also investigated. In the process of data analysis in the first ...

Most models of neural associative memory have used networks with broad connectivity. However, from both a neurobiological viewpoint and an implementation perspective, it is logical to minimize the length of inter-neural connections and consider networks whose connectivity is predominantly local. The \small-world networks" model described recently by Watts and Strogatz provides an interesting ap...

Background: Nitric oxide is a free radical that recently has emerged as a key signaling molecule in regulating important physiological processes in plants. Objective: In this work, sodium nitroprusside (SNP) was utilized as the donor of nitric oxide to investigate the effects of exogenous nitric oxide on essential oil, rosmarinic acid and antioxidant activity of in vitro-cultured Melissa offi...