The paper describes the FP7 ICT OCOPOMO project aimed at development of a software platform supporting collaborative policy modelling. After a short introduction of basic facts on the project, principles and key concepts of collaborative policy modelling are outlined and the adopted approach together with the envisioned functionality is described. Finally, a design of high-level architecture of...

Impedance control is a well-established framework to manage the interaction of the end effector of a robot manipulator with the environment. For the execution of six-degree-offreedom (DOF) tasks, both the end-effector position and orientation must be handled. The operational space control schemes typically utilize minimal representations of end-effector orientation; however, such representation...

In exploring the evolution of Iranian architecture from prototypes to the present day, Qajar architecture is an important part of Iranian architecture history. The importance of this era's architecture is because large changes in conceptual and physical context occurred slowly in Iranian architecture during this time. These changes, especially from the Nasserian period (the second Qajar era), h...

We propose a natural image representation, the neural response, motivated by the neuroscience of the visual cortex. The inner product defined by the neural response leads to a similarity measure between functions which we call the derived kernel. Based on a hierarchical architecture, we give a recursive definition of the neural response and associated derived kernel. The derived kernel can be u...

While the chip multiprocessor (CMP) has quickly become the predominant processor architecture, its continuing success largely depends on the parallelizability of complex programs. In the early 1990s great successes were obtained to extract parallelism from the inner loops of scientific computations. In this paper we show that significant amounts of coarse-grain parallelism exists in the outer p...

tocoagulation was applied and the worm was successfully killed (Figure 1F). The patient reported significant subjective improvement, and his visual acuity measured 20/40 OS 1 month and 20/25 OS 3 months following the initial visit. Spectraldomain OCT showed disruption of the photoreceptors in the papillomacular region secondary to prior photocoagulation but progressive restoration of the normal...

This article presents a description of a single-chip implementation o f a Reed-Solomon encoder with interleaving capability. The code used was adapted by the CCSDS (Consulative Committee on Space Data Systems). It forms the outer code of the NASA standard concatenated coding system which includes a convolutional inner code of rate 112 and constraint length 7. The architecture, leading to this s...

This paper presents an attempt at an early investigation or exploration of the trade-off between MIPS cost and memory cost. The cost model is an approximation based on knowledge of the application behavior and algorithm inner loop costs for the hardware architecture, which consists of a control processor and a SIMD processor. The application is an H.264 video decoder. Various memory configurati...

The paper presents a software architecture based on open source technologies, implemented by the authors in an experience of processing spatio-temporal data gathered by rain gauges spread across two regions of central Italy. The interest in the automatic processing of data about precipitation is widespread, however, today only an inner circle of stakeholders can think of taking advantage of the...

The effect of Triton X-100, Na cholate and Tween 80 on the solubilization of integral membrane proteins in intact cells, spheroplasts and inner-membrane fragments of Salmonella typhimurium was studied. The detergents were used in various concentrations (1.6 to 64 mM) and cytochromes b and d were used as marker to monitor the solubilization of membrane-bound proteins. Results showed that no inne...