abstract     the major constraints of agricultural production in the south western coastal areas of bangladesh are soil and water salinity of varying degrees, lack of fresh water for irrigation, slow soil drying pattern which are being augmented further due to climate change, requires suitable options of farming systems and component technologies. the major constraints and potentials of agricul...

Greater integration of optical devices is required in microfluidic systems for on-chip functionality, with lenses being key components. In this paper several candidate lens types are compared and simulations are presented which show that the paraxial kinoform lens offers optimum performance for efficiency and compactness in weak guiding systems. © 2009 Microoptics Group (OSJ/JSAP)

The goal of the DARPA/Tri-Service-sponsored Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program is to reduce development and manufacturing time and cost of signal processors by a factor of four. Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) RASSP team has developed an integrated systems engineering tool set which forms the basis for a concurrent engineering de...

One of the main progress directions of Applied Information Engineering is to develop profession-specific application systems. Integration demand of Production Information Engineering is more than 30 years old. Why need is there for integration? The birth and evolution of CIM-paradigm. Progress of the functional modelling of production enterprises. The CIM-OSA concept. The results of EAI techniq...

1Computer Science Research Institute, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, County Antrim BT37 0QB, UK 2Bioinformatics Division, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 3Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Psychiatry, and Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt ...

This paper describes a design support system which goes beyond the support facilities offered by the current generation of CASE tools. We have examined the entire design process, and we propose that the early stages of conceptual design need a more flexible system than is currently offered by existing design methods. Our toollthe Designer's Notepad (DNp)) allorvs rough designs to be created and...

In anticipation of its ultimate role in transport, business and rotary wing aircraft, we clarify the role of Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS): how the output data will be utilized, appropriate architecture for total avionics integration, pilot and control interfaces, and operational utilization. Ground-map (database) correlation is critical, and we suggest that “synthetic vision” is simply a subse...