Authors’ Note: Address correspondence to John Byrne, Center for Energy & Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716-7301; e-mail: [email protected]. I n an October, 2008 New York Times article, journalist John Tierney argued that recent discussions about energy futures “. . . have a certain vintage quality. They’ve revived that classic debate: the hard path versus the soft pa...

Corresponding Author: Nor Amalina Mohd Sabri Center for Advanced Computing Technology (C-ACT), Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia Email: [email protected] Abstract: Finding a shortest path in a high rise building during critical incident or evacuation is facing two main issues which are evacuees find difficulties to fin...

To solve the problems of instability of agricultural robot when avoiding obstacles, a kind of navigation method which combined monocular visual navigation technology and remote monitoring technology was proposed: using the centerline method to extract the navigation path to achieve visual navigation; the monitoring center received two-way real-time image signals of the agricultural robot, when ...

We give a quantum field theory interpretation of Kontsevich's deformation quantization formula for Poisson manifolds. We show that it is given by the perturbative expansion of the path integral of a simple topological bosonic open string theory. Its Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization yields a superconformal field theory. The associativity of the star product, and more generally the formality conje...

ABSTRACT—A low-voltage and low-power bandpass ∆Σ modulator is described. In this design, two novel ideas are incorporated: unity-gain-reset and integrating-two-path techniques. A test chip, realized in a 0.35-μm CMOS process and clocked at both 20 and 40MHz, provided a dynamic range DR=45dB and a signal-to-noise+distortion-ratio SNDR=36dB for a 100-kHz signal bandwidth at 5MHz center frequency,...

1Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, McKnight Brain Institute, USA 2Departments of Psychiatry and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, and Boston VA Healthcare System, Boston, USA 3Impact genomics, Inc., Lederoch, Pennsylvania, USA 4Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Research Foundation, USA 5Department of Holistic Medicine, National Institute for Holis...

This is an account of an active collaboration between Computer Engineering, Health Informatics, and Nursing within an academic health science center to improve the quality of life of older adults as they "age in place." The Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri-Columbia has developed a licensed home health agency, Senior Care, to provide the care needed by residents of TigerP...

A real-time iris detection and tracking algorithm has been implemented on a smart camera using LabVIEW graphical programming tools. The program detects the eye and finds the center of the iris, which is recorded and stored in Cartesian coordinates. In subsequent video frames, the location of the center of the iris corresponding to the previously detected eye is computed and recorded for a desir...

There is a recognized need for automated path planning for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and guided munitions. Evolutionary programming approaches provide an alternative to classical functional optimization methods with the capability of incorporating a variety of optimization goals, while tolerating vehicle constraints. In this work, we introduce an evolutionary flight path planning algorithm c...

In part II of this group of papers, the control of the gait of a biped robot during rectilinear walk was considered. The modeling approach and simulation, using Kane’s method with implementation leveraged by Autolev, a symbolic computational environment that is complementary, was discussed in part I. Performing turns during the walk is technically more complex than the rectilinear case and dese...