This paper presents a robotic system that exploits Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies for implementing an ambient intelligence scenario. We address the problems of robot object discovery, localization, and recognition in a fully distributed way. We propose to embed some memory, some computational power, and some communication capability in the objects, by attaching a WSN mote to each ob...

Identification of polymorphic transposable elements (TEs) is important because TE polymorphism creates genetic diversity and influences the function of genes in the host genome. However, de novo scanning of polymorphic TEs remains a challenge. Here, we report a novel computational method, called PTEMD (polymorphic TEs and their movement detection), for de novo discovery of genome-wide polymorph...

The "delayed hypersensitive" reactivity induced by antigen-antibody complexes has been studied from the standpoints of the role of such complexes in establishing this state, and the relationship of this state to classical delayed hypersensitivity. It has been shown that the reactivity established by antigen-antibody complexes appears early after injection, disappears within a few days, and is c...

A medium is a medium is a medium. As the sentence says, there is no difference between occult and technological media. Their truth is fatality, their field the unconscious. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The urban ether swims with a multitude of invisible particles: the residue of ash and aerosols, signals and light. Circulating through the city is the dus...

Although van der Waals layered transition metal dichalcogenides from transient absorption spectroscopy have successfully demonstrated an ideal carrier multiplication (CM) performance with onset of nearly 2Eg,interpretation the CM effect optical approach remains unresolved owing to complexity many-body electron-hole pairs. We demonstrate through simple photocurrent measurements by fabricating du...

Abid Ali Minhas, Thomas Trathnigg, Christian Steger, Reinhold Weiß Technische Universität Graz ,Institut für Technische Informatik, Austria {minhas, steger,rweiss}@iti.tu-graz.ac.at [email protected] _____________________________________________________________ Abstract: Routing algorithms have shown their importance in the power aware wireless micro-sensor networks. In this paper firs...

We investigate the use of wireless sensor motes as mobile deployable waypoints for swarm robot navigation in a foraging scenario. Each robot can deploy, retrieve, and optimize the location of the sensor motes. After deployment, the robots treat the sensor motes as nodes in a sparse graph, and store and retrieve multiple pheromones and flags locally in each of them. Pheromone information stored ...