Domestication is the process through which animals adapt to conditions provided by humans. The domesticated phenotype differs from wild ancestors in a number of traits relating to physiology, morphology and behaviour. One of the most striking differences is the animals’ fear response towards humans, and reduced fear of humans is assumed to have been an early prerequisite for the success of dome...

Autonomous flying vehicles, also referred to as AFV’s, are generally thought of as being expensive and complicated. The consensus is that any research or development into this area would be done exclusively by universities or the military. Unfortunately, this is not far from the present truth. A simple low cost AFV solution would provide an attractive alternative to several civilian application...

Learning, knowledge and information have been changing in the last decades. As information becomes more available through mobile devices, we can reach it from anywhere and at any time. Learning has become a life-long process. Constant search for new information and knowledge in combination with our nomadic way of living makes learning different from what it used to be. People adapt to the const...

Because of extensive industrial and domestic wastewater discharge, the Atoyac river has become one of Mexico's most polluted rivers. The aim of the paper is to investigate the contaminations of the river due to the different polluters and what impacts it has on the environment and society. Further the paper aims to identify necessary solutions in order to restore the river to its natural state,...

In multiparty multimodal dialogue setup, where the robot is set to interact with multiple people, a main requirement for the robot is to recognize the user speaking to it. This would allow the robot to pay attention (visually) to the person the robot is listening to (for example looking by the gaze and head pose to the speaker), and to organize the dialogue structure with multiple people. Knowi...

The modern small devices of today require cheap low power radio frequency (RF) transceivers that can provide reliable connectivity at all times. In an RF transceiver, the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is one of the most important parts and it is also one of the main power consumers. There are several architectures for implementing an ADC, but in the last decade, continuoustime ∆Σ modulators...

Rapporter från Trätek — Institutet för träteknisk forskning — är kompletta sammanställningar av forskningsresultat eller översikter, utvecklingar och studier. Publicerade rapporter betecknas med I eller P och numreras tillsammans med alla ut-gåvor från Trätek i löpande följd. Citat tillätes om källan anges. Reports issued hy the Swedish Institute for Wood Technology Research comprise complete a...

Satelliter är sofistikerade och därför komplicerade konstruktioner som kräver tvärvetenskapligt lagarbete mellan olika experter från olika akademiska discipliner. Integrationen av specifika nyttolastkomponenter, liksom vetenskapliga experiment, med inbyggd programvara för satelliter är mycket utmanande. Domänexperten, som ägare av nyttolastkomponenten, besitter detaljerade insikter om hans elle...