Two online projects are described in this paper. Wara Blong Life and Sniff, Swing and Swipe were ten-week, online activity-based projects offered in 2001 to elementary, middle and junior secondary school classes from all over New Zealand.

parcel delivery is a complex logistic service, as it serves many small or medium-sized customers who may send or receive parcels. modeling such delivery system needs to integrate two different research areas of hub location and vehicle routing. as it totally depends on the network and the linkage of the nodes, in this paper, some door-to-door service providers are taken into account to provide ...

This paper concerns a swing-up control problem for an n-link revolute robot in a vertical plane with its first joint being passive and the rest being active. The objectives of this paper are: 1) to design a controller under which the robot can be brought into any arbitrarily small neighborhood of the upright equilibrium point, where all links of the robot remain in their upright positions; 2) t...

Hardware development of cryptographic algorithms is subject to various attacks. It has been previously demonstrated that scan chains introduce for hardware testability open a back door to potential attacks. Scan based testing is one of the mainly used and powerful test technique since it provides full observability and controllability of the internal nodes of the IC. It has been previously demo...

Marketing strategists often use two multiple request techniques to influence buyers' behavior. One technique, termed "foot-in-the-door," involves asking people to comply with a critical large request after they have complied with a small request.' The other technique, "door-in-the-face," involves asking people to comply with a critical small request after they have rejected a large request. The...

[Purpose] This study used an alternative approach compared with previous studies by investigating the effect of minimizing arm swing while walking on the trunk and gluteal muscles. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects of this study included 13 adult males. [Results] The latissimus dorsi muscle activities during walking with a minimized arm swing were significantly decreased compared with those d...

Backstepping control technique is a Lyapunov based nonlinear robust technique which is applicable to only strict feedback system. Backstepping technique has been applied on linear inverted pendulum which is under actuated system. Inverted pendulum is swung from its pendant position and stabilized at its upright position. Swing up is achieved by nonlinear backstepping controller but the linear i...

We utilized laser irradiation as a potential technique in tuning the electrical performance of NiOx/SiO2 thin film transistors (TFTs). By optimizing fluence and number pulses, TFT was evaluated terms mobility, threshold voltage, on/off current ratio subthreshold swing, all which were derived from transfer output characteristics. The 500 pulses-irradiated exhibited an enhanced mobility 3 cm2/V-s...