Beyond Technology—Renaissance Engineers T O compete in newly emerging international markets, industry must be committed to technological change and innovation. Today's power brokers must make an attempt to keep pace with rapid changes in technology, which is somewhat like trying to change the oil in a car while it is traveling 70 mi/h down the highway. In this super-charged atmosphere, engineer...

Power allocation to satisfy user demands in the presence of large number of interferers in a multicellular network is a challenging task. Further, the power to be allocated depends upon the system architecture, for example upon components like coding, modulation, transmit precoder, rate allocation algorithms, available knowledge of the interfering channels, etc. This calls for an algorithm via ...

Over the past four years, we have used evolving versions of IRI (Interactive Remote Instruction), a computer-based system to support distance education, to teach a variety of semester-long regularly scheduled for-credit classes. These classes are at sites up to 320 km apart. In this paper we give a brief description of IRI, some initial evaluations of its use, and describe the architecture used...

We briefly discuss the physics motivation for a neutrino factory with varying baseline distances of about 1000 to 9000 km. We describe the amount of non planarity of the storage ring required to service three or four detectors at once. A novel bowtie storage ring is described that could in part provide these beams; a preliminary lattice design is given. We give the space angles between the vari...

Research about Group Support Systems and the design of these technologies uses western culture as a point of reference. While the research reveals promising results on the effectiveness of these technologies, the technologies may be less effective when applied directly to different cultures or cross-cultural situations where there may be different support requirements. This paper presents the c...

This paper analyses the possibility of using a fifth passive satellite for endowing the Italian COSMO-SkyMed constellation with crossand along-track SAR interferometric capabilities, by using simultaneously flying and operating antennas. Fundamentals of developed models are described and potential space configurations are investigated, by considering both formations operating on the same orbita...

A novel concept for the detection of tau neutrinos is presented, potentially suitable for use in a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. It relies on the direct identification of the tau leptons produced in charged-current interactions, by imaging the Cherenkov light that the tau generates in C6F14 liquid. In a simple simulation about half of the tau leptons can be successfully identif...

This is a summary of our participation in the TRECVID 2016 video hyperlinking task (LNK). We submitted four runs in total. A baseline system combined on established vectorspace text indexing and cosine similarity. Our other runs explored the use of distributed word representations in combination with fine-grained inter-segment text similarity measures.

Corporate adoption of information technology (IT) infrastructure is a critical management issue that may be affected by national culture. Prior research has shown that dimensions of national culture affect development of national IT infrastructure as well as adoption and impact of IT applications. This study explores the impact of two dimensions of national culture (uncertainty avoidance and po...

English The development of a strong and innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is central plank of industrial and employment policy in all Member States of the European Union (EU). However, the bulk of the SME suffers from resource constraints and management weaknesses. Policy makers and business organisations have tried to correct these imbalances mainly through fiscal measures or supp...