Autonomous systems are increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives. For example, we envision drones to be used in security, delivery, mapping, and surveying applications, self-driving cars to share the roadways with human-driven vehicles, and service robots to assist humans in houses, hotels, or hospitals. Such autonomous systems are enabled by the recent developments in computing, manufact...

The Distributed Control Lab (DCL)[10] provides an open infrastructure for conducting robotics and control experiments from the Internet. It is based on web service technologies and offers a wide range of frontend applications. Within the DCL environment we focus on safety mechanisms in order to prevent malicious code from damaging experimental equipment. This includes source code analysis, runt...

This presentation describes the philosophy and ongoing interdisciplinary research projects of the Interactive Visualization Lab at the University of Minnesota.

Mining is the process of adding blocks of transaction to the Bitcoin’s block chain. The block chain serves to confirm transactions in the network. Nodes use the block chain to verify the legality of transactions. Each block contains a proof of work to be considered valid. This proof of work is verified by other nodes in the network. Mining is designed to be difficult so that the frequency of bl...

conclusions these human-derived lab and bifidobacteria exhibited different mechanisms involved in pathogenic inhibition. therefore a combination of these probiotic strains could be a great promise and possibility for the development of probiotic products to effectively prevent and control food-borne infection in humans. background food-borne pathogens are among the most significant problems in ...

e d u c a t i o n a dvances in medicine have challenged labs to push the limits on diagnostics, so the industry has responded with automated solutions designed to improve efficiency, consistency , and turnaround times. Leaders in the field of in vitro diagnostics stepped up to create solutions for every stage in the laboratory process — pre-analytic, analytic, and informatics — with even more a...

This paper first gives an introduction to the broad features of the Darwin mission of ESA and then describes in some detail the data processing that is necessary to detect planets and spectrally characterize them. The proposed data processing method is validated by means of simulated data. in Astronomy with High Contrast Imaging III, EAS Publications Series, EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, France, 2006.

Neurons (Fig 6.1) are cells in the nervous system that are used conduct signals at high speed from one part of the body to another. This enables rapid, precise responses to occur in order to compensate for changes in the environment. Neurons are able to send signals at high speed due to their ability to generate and conduct an electrical signal called an action potential down the length of thei...