This report summarizes a research/demonstration project in which a new high school facility was designed and constructed to combine a custom built 230 kW cogeneration package with four integrated active desiccant rooftop (IADR) systems to serve as high-efficiency dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS). The IADR systems were modified to include hot water coils to use the waste heat provided by the...

In this paper, we set out to define the out together feeling as the experience when two people at different locations feel as though they are together. In other words, it makes a pair of users, one outdoors and the other indoors, feel as if they are both outdoors together. To determine a set of interaction methods to enable indoor and outdoor users to interact and share the out together feeling...

introduction guilan is one of the provinces in north of iran, with population of 2,480,874 and a total area of ​​14,042 square kilometers. this study assesses the outdoor natural gamma dose rates in the air of 49 cities in guilan and calculates corresponding average annual effective dose. materials and methods a total of 260 different sample points measurements were carried out. the results inc...

BACKGROUND There is a rapid shift in the social context of drinking, with a large proportion of regular drinkers favouring outdoor-open space drinking, such as motor-parks, by the road sides, the majority of which are unlicensed premises for drinking. METHOD This study determined the prevalence and determinants of harmful or hazardous alcohol use and possible dependence, defined as a "likely ...

A technique is presented for representing linear features as probability density functions in 2D or 3D affine space. Two chief advantages of this approach are (1) a unified representation and algebra for manipulating points, lines, and planes, and (2) seamless incorporation of uncertainty information. Applications to Euclidean and non-metric scene reconstruction are presented, with results on i...

We demonstrate the distribution of quantum entanglement via optical free-space links to independent receivers separated by 600 m, with no line of sight between each other. A Bell inequality between those receivers is violated by more than four standard deviations, confirming the quality of the entanglement. This outdoor experiment represents a step toward satellite-based distributed quantum ent...

In this paper, we suggest a mo indirect 3D object manipulation method information in an augmented reality environm we propose 1) a method that exploits a 2D 3DOF accelerometer, and compass sensors manipulate 3D objects in 3D space, 2) design t to map the control space of mobile phones reality (AR) display space, and 3) confirm the transfer functions by implementation. Our applicable to the desi...

This research outlines the design and development of the Autonomous Exploration Rover at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to compete in the 2013 NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge. The robot is designed to autonomously navigate a large outdoor area while locating and retrieving various samples using only space-compatible technologies.

This paper presents a hybrid segmentation algorithm, which provides a synthetic image description in terms of regions. This method has been used to segment images of outdoor scenes. We have applied our segmentation algorithm to color images and images encoding 3D information. 5 different color spaces were tested. The segmentation results obtained with each color space are compared.

Battery life and outdoor visibility are two of the most important features for mobile applications today. It is desirable to achieve both low power consumption and excellent outdoor visibility on the display device at the same time. We have previously reported a new RGBW method to realize low power consumption and high luminance with high image quality. In this paper, the basic concept of a new...