Information Systems (IS) applications have proliferated in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) as organisations in these countries begin to realise the benefits of utilising these technologies to improve business process and enhance productivity. However much IS implementation in LDCs has been unsuccessful. Successful approaches should take account of technological factors, and also heed social co...

Improve the performance of remotely situated device control and data monitoring, acquisition with parameter such as temperature, pressure, vibration, humidity on real time basis give the data modularity as well as low data processing time. The infrastructure of the existing RF network is used, which is based on supervisory control, monitoring and data acquisition demands constant development an...

This paper describes the portable implementation of a programming model based on shared objects that integrates task and data parallelism. As a starting point, the implementation uses two existing runtime systems: the Orca runtime system (RTS), for task parallel programming, and Hawk, for data parallel programming. To achieve this portable integration, we implemented the Orca RTS and Hawk on to...

The paper describes the functional modules of a biomonitoring system designed to allow data collection from freely moving animal or human subjects in biomedical experiments. Portable Data Collection Unit is carried by the subject in the acquisition process. Standing Unit receives the signal, decodes the information and feeds the local PC used as collection terminal. The paper also contain techn...

Successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are frequently the architecture of choice for medium-to-high-resolution applications with sample rates under 5 megasamples per second (Msps). SAR ADCs most commonly range in resolution from 8 to 16 bits and provide low power consumption as well as a small form factor. This combination makes them ideal for a wide variety...

Indoor navigation systems for common users have recently received a lot of interest. Since the penetration of indoor navigation applications and location-based services strongly relies on accurate indoor maps such as blueprints. Navigation or positioning systems have been widely developed for Location-Based Services (LBS) applications and it comes along with a keen demand of indoor floor plans ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate normal healthy persons without spasticity to observe normal findings of the elbow stretch reflex using a newly developed, portable, hand-driven spasticity-measuring system. METHOD Thirty normal persons without any disease involving the central or peripheral nervous system were enrolled in this study. The portable hand-driven isokinetic system is able to measure the joint...