OFDM communication through warm shallow water acoustic channel (WSWA) is affected by snapping shrimp noise. Due to its impulsive broadband nature, the snapping shrimp noise is able to affect a large number of OFDM sub-carriers at once. The effect on the sub-carriers can be modeled as a symmetric α-stable (SαS) noise vector with dependent components. Although the performance of the conventional ...

We present an abstract framework for designing and developing globalised interactive systems from simple components viewed as games [1] (K. Stathis, M.J. Sergot, Games as a Metaphor for Interactive Systems, in: M.A. Sasse, R.J. Cunningham, R.L. Winder (Eds.), People and Computers XI (Proceedings of HCI’96), August 1996, London, UK, BCS Conference Series, Springer-Varlag, pp. 19–33). We identify...

A CAD assembly model is a collection of components, comprised recursively of various levels of individual parts and sub-assembly models. Although the overall geometry in the CAD assembly model accurately represents the final finished product, this model is often meaningless from a manufacturing planning and simulation point of view. The grouping of the components into sub-assemblies and the ass...

One of the major abiotic stresses limiting the productivity and the geographical distribution of many important crops is low temperature. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an important signaling molecule involved in several stress-resistance processes such as drought, salinity and heavy metal stresses in plants. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of exogenous H2S...

The manufacturing of complex products often involves the assembly of other products, or sub-assemblies. Furthermore, these sub-assemblies may be manufactured by different suppliers. As a result, the specification of the assembly process for the final product contains relationships between multiple supply chain components, including business entities, manufacturing processes, products, and parts...

System integration testing is the process of testing a system by the stepwise integration of sub-components. Usually these sub-components are already verified to guarantee their correct functional behavior. By integration of these verified subcomponents into the overall system, emergent behavior may occur, i.e. behavior that evolves by the assembling of the subcomponents. For system integration...