The BiPo project is dedicated to the measurement of extremely low radioactive contaminations of SuperNEMO ββ source foils (Tl < 2 μBq/kg and Bi < 10 μBq/kg). A modular BiPo1 prototype with its 20 modules and its shielding test facility is running in the Modane Underground Laboratory since February, 2008. The goal of this prototype is to study the backgrounds and particularly the surface contami...

In this article, we present the prototype of the Multimedia Cardiac Angiogram Tool (MCAT). The MCAT provides capabilities for reviewing angiograms recorded at a cardiac catheterization laboratory. A doctor can use MCAT to annotate angiograms with audio, text, and graphics. He/she can selectively package the annotated multimedia angiograms into a document, save it as the record for the visit or ...

We have explored and evaluated a novel approach to information seeking grounded in the idea of summarizing query results through automated document clustering. The user starts with a natural language description of the needed information and navigates the information space through the interaction with the system. We implemented a prototype allowing searches of a significant portion of the entir...

In order to raise awareness about energy waste, an energy monitoring system able to be used either in residential or commercial applications is proposed in this paper. The acquisition system is based on Arduino Due (ArD), X-Bee and free software. The system has been designed considering low-power consumption and low-component count while meeting international standards. The prototype is constit...

This paper describes the prototype developed by the Language Technologies Laboratory at INAOE for Spanish monolingual QA evaluation task at CLEF 2004. Our approach is centered on the use of context at a lexical level in order to identify possible answers to factoid questions. This method is supported by an alternative one based on pattern recognition in order to identify candidate answers to de...

Background: Consumption of fast food, as a consequence of the modern industrial society, has increased in recent years among teenagers and young people. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of fast food consumption on female students in Yazd University of Medical Sciences based on the Prototype/Willingness Model. Methods: In this descriptive-analytic study, 245 female dormito...

Today, due to the limited supply and rapid consumption of fossil fuels, transitioning towards renewable energy supplies has become more important than ever.. The purpose of this paper is to present a new linear permanent magnet vernier machine structure which is designed to capture wave energy and improve the performance of the prototype vernier machine. By halving the proposed vernier machine,...

The Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitas Negeri Surabaya (Unesa) is developing a laboratory, including control system laboratory. engineering teaching team prepares themselves by making PLC training kit to accompany the existing modules. With aim that students know and understand application systems in industry. This can foster student learning motivation attending lectures greatly...

Centralized control algorithm limits the hardware flexibility of a modular multilevel converter (MMC). Therefore, distributed structure has recently started to be seen in industry application. Even though controller reduces single point failure risk compared centralized controller, entire systems increases due number local controllers. However, can programmed such way as replace faulty and sust...

This article presents a prototype to generate, schedule, and monitor personalized notifications for the TV ecosystem, which encompasses television, connected devices, personal mobile devices. Based on identification of guidelines usage scenarios in literature collection empirical data through focus groups, were systematized settings according type event/content be notified. The include sending ...