The USNS Mercy, one of the two hospital ships in the United States Navy, has provided disaster relief and humanitarian assistance for multiple natural disasters around the world. As a self-sustaining 1000-bed hospital, the USNS Mercy provides a full complement of surgical and medical capabilities to care for the sick and injured in a mobile platform environment. This article describes the recen...

THE HOSPITALS AND THEIR PURPOSE During the planning for the invasion of Mainland Europe in 1944, (D-Day), one consideration was the possibility of there being large numbers of Civilian casualties, which together with the possibility of severe damage to the local Hospitals, might lead to the Military hospitals being unable to cope. The idea therefore arose of creating small 50 bed mobile Hospita...

This paper presents a procedural generation method that creates visually attractive levels for the Angry Birds game. Besides being an immensely popular mobile game, Angry Birds has recently become a test bed for various artificial intelligence technologies. We propose a new approach for procedurally generating Angry Birds levels using Chinese style and Japanese style building structures. A cond...

Integration of wireless LAN and cellular network will possibly bring ubiquitous internet access. This study states several problems of currently suggested integration techniques and provides proposals to overcome these shortcomings. A current cellular IP will be simplified to improve the handoff performance which will be integrated with mobile IP. The simulator has been developed instead of a t...

Australia has experienced a sudden and unexpected resurgence in bed bug infestations from both Cimex lectularius L. and Cimex hemipterus F. A survey in 2006 revealed that infestations had increased across the nation by an average of 4,500% since the start of the decade. In response, a multi-disciplinary approach to combat the rise of this public health pest was implemented and involved the coor...

[1] The beds of steep streams are typically composed of relatively immobile boulders and more mobile patches of gravel and cobbles. Little is known about how variability in flow and sediment flux affect the area, thickness, composition, and grain mobility of sediment patches. To better understand patch dynamics, we measured flow, sediment transport, and bed properties in two steep channels. Pat...

This poster describes our work to build a wearable Aug­ mented Reality system that supports true stereoscopic 3D graphics. Through a pen and pad interface well known 2D user interfaces can be presented to the user, whereas the tracking of the pen allows to use direct interaction with virtual objects. The system is assembled from off-the-shelf hardware components and serves as a basic test bed f...

A prerequisite for the mass-market deployment of multihop ad hoc technologies is the capability of integrating with existing wired infrastructure networks. However, current solutions to support connectivity between ad hoc networks and the Internet are based on complex mechanisms, such as Mobile-IP and IP tunnelling. In this paper we propose a lightweight solution based on simple Layer-2 mechani...

When investigating sediment transport in laboratory open-channel flows, it is often necessary to remove sidewall effects for computing effective bed shear stress. Previous sidewall correction methods include some assumptions that have not been completely verified, and therefore different values of the bed shear stress may be obtained, depending on the approach used in making sidewall correction...