A luminescent bis(salicylaldiminato)zinc(II) Schiff-base complex, 1, is characterized by a concentration dependent second-order nonlinear optical response, related to the degree of aggregation of the complex in a dichloromethane solution. The formation of the monomeric adduct, by addition of a Lewis base, such as pyridine, to concentrated solutions of 1, leads to a switch-on of the quadratic hy...

The Sensor Web provides access to observations and measurements through standardized interfaces defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative. While clients compliant to these standards have access to the generated sensor data, it remains partially hidden from other knowledge infrastructures building on higher-level W3C standards. To overcome this problem, i...

The breath pressure signal applied to wind music instruments is generally considered to be a slowly varying function of time. In a context of music control, this assumption implies that a relatively low digital sample rate (100-200 Hz) is sufficient to capture and/or reproduce this signal. We tested this assumption by evaluating the frequency content in breath pressure, particularly during the ...

For a number of reasons, it is important to know and understand test variability or reproducibility. All pulmonary function tests are subject to: 1) technical variation related to instrument procedure, calibration, observer, subject, and their interaction; 2) biological variation; and 3) variation caused by dysfunction or disease [1]. A knowledge and understanding of test variability can enhanc...

Method for psychological status monitoring with line of sight vector changes (human eye movement) detected with wearing glass is proposed. Succored eye movement should be an indicator of humans’ psychological status. Probability of succored eye movement, therefore, is measured. Through experiments with simple and complicated documents, relation between psychological status measured with eeg sig...

The combined influences of unsteady aerodynamics, dynamics, viscoelasticity and piezoelectricity are studied to determine their interaction and influence on sensing and structural control. Critical parameters are identified and numerical simulations are used to evaluate their sensitivities to system responses and to predict flutter conditions and control.

Atrial flutter is a life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia with an increasing prevalence during the last decennia. To characterise and diagnose atrial fibrillation based on the electrocardiographic waveforms, we propose an algorithm that extracts the f-wave from the observations. This algorithm is based on classical independent component analysis algorithms, but is applied in a transform domain of...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a unique class of crystalline solids comprised of metal cations (or metal clusters) and organic ligands that have shown promise for a wide variety of applications. Over the past 15 years, research and development of these materials have become one of the most intensely and extensively pursued areas. A very interesting and well-investigated topic is their opti...

The primary goal of the New Horizons Pluto–Kuiper Belt mission is to explore Pluto by 2020, before Pluto’s atmosphere collapses as predicted by scientists, and then explore the Kuiper Belt objects in an extended mission. The baseline mission plans to launch in January 2006, using a Jupiter gravity assist trajectory to reach Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft will arrive at Pluto as early as 201...

The connection of coalition systems has many challenges, one of the most important and the one being address by this paper is the lack of understanding of information assurance (IA) in a coalition environment. This paper presents an approach to managing this coalition IA risk using a taxonomy to organize readily available observations and measurements that are potential indicators of a system's...