For enjoying 3D video to its full extent, access and consumption of 3D content should be user centric, which in turn ensures enhanced quality of user experience. The experience nevertheless is easily influenced by several factors, including content characteristics, users’ preferences, contexts prevailing in various usage environments, etc. Utilizing ambient illumination as an environmental cont...

Using controlled environmental growth chambers, whole plants of soybean, cv. ‘Clark’, were examined during early development (7–20 days after sowing) at both ambient (μ 350 μL L–1) and elevated (μ 700 μL L–1) carbon dioxide and a range of air temperatures (20, 25, 30, and 35 °C) to determine if future climatic change (temperature or CO2 concentration) could alter the ratio of carbon lost by dar...

Recently, ambient backscatter communications has been introduced as a cutting-edge technology which enables smart devices to communicate by utilizing ambient radio frequency (RF) signals without requiring active RF transmission. This technology is especially effective in addressing communication and energy efficiency problems for low-power communications systems such as sensor networks. It is e...

We consider the determination of the optimal ne for noncompliance by a legislator who anticipates the inspection game between an autonomous inspection agency and polluting rms. This agency can make the inspection of individual rms contingent on ambient pollution. The agency's autonomy implies that it cannot commit itself to announced inspection probabilities. If the legislator centralizes the d...

Daily office work is often a mix of concentrated desktop work and scheduled meetings and appointments. However, constantly checking the clock and alarming popups interrupt the flow of creative work as they require the user's focused attention. We present Ambient Timer, an ambient light display designed to unobtrusively remind users of upcoming events. The light display mounted around the monito...

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a societal imperative in many countries due to their aged demographic profile. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) offers a viable and intuitive framework by which such systems may realised in practice. However, a number of issues must be addressed if AmI is to become sufficiently mature and robust to support AAL. One such issue is the seamless combination of services, b...

Those who work in the legal system are often viewed negatively as unhelpful and unsympathetic to those in need of legal assistance. Applicants seeking help from legal personnel feel disdain for the legal process because their expectations are not satisfied. This study examines how the communication processes between people seeking legal assistance and legal personnel contribute to an asymmetric...

Bigraphs are emerging as an interesting model that can represent both the picalculus and the ambient calculus. Bigraphs are built orthogonally on two structures: a hierarchical ‘place’ graph for locations and a ‘link’ (hyper-)graph for connections. In a previous work (submitted elsewhere and yet unpublished), we introduced a logic for bigraphical structures as a natural composition of a place g...

In this paper, we propose a monadic higher order safe ambient calculus. The expressiveness of this calculus is studied. We showed that polyadic higher order safe ambient calculus, first order safe ambient calculus with capability-passing, first order safe ambient calculus with name-passing, and polyadic π-calculus can all be encoded in monadic higher order ambient calculus. At last, we show tha...