In this paper, we present the REACHeS architecture for controlling pervasive services through physical user interfaces, using a mobile terminal and icons placed in the environment. An icon advertises a service that can be started by touching the icon with a mobile terminal. This service activation configures the mobile terminal as a remote control for the service. We have implemented this archi...

Aiming at providing a better user experience, we propose a gestural remote control able to operate infrared-enabled devices with simple hand movements. In the proposed system, the user’s hands are identified by red and green gloves. The X and Y coordinates of each hand’s center of mass are calculated and input into a gesture recognition finite state machine (FSM). This FSM classifies the hand m...

Gestures can be used as an alternative to traditional human computer interaction devices such as the keyboard and mouse. Gesture interaction can be flexible, natural, and intuitive. They can increase user immersion in virtual environments and reduce the need for learning systems specific interaction methods. In the talk, the general structure and main building blocks of gesture recognition syst...

The goal of this article is to present our remote laboratory as a means of distant-programming environment which provides remote users for the possibility to use control systems, widely employed in industrial applications. The lab is aimed towards people from universities as well as from industrial companies, and comprises two models based on pneumatic and electromagnetic principles and control...

A botnet is a collection of bots, each generally running on a compromised system and responding to commands over a “commandand-control” overlay network. We investigate observable differences in the behavior of bots and benign programs, focusing on the way that bots respond to data received over the network. Our experimental platform monitors execution of an arbitrary Win32 binary, considering d...

We have recently introduced the ”continuation semantics for concurrency” (CSC) technique in an attempt to exploit the benefits of using continuations in concurrent systems development. CSC is a general technique for denotational semantics which provides excellent flexibility in the compositional modeling of concurrent control concepts. In this paper, we present a denotational semantics designed...

In this review, we look at the most recent studies of DNA elements that function over long genomic distances to regulate gene transcription and will discuss the mechanisms genes employ to overcome the positive and negative influences of their genomic neighbourhood in order to achieve accurate programmes of expression. Enhancer elements activate high levels of transcription of linked genes from ...

A significant challenge for neuroscientists is to determine how both electrical and chemical signals affect the activity of cells and circuits and how the nervous system subsequently translates that activity into behavior. Remote, bidirectional manipulation of those signals with high spatiotemporal precision is an ideal approach to addressing that challenge. Neuroscientists have recently develo...

A modern world contains varieties of electronic equipment and systems like: TV, security system, Hi-fi equipment, central heating systems, fire alarm systems, security alarm systems, lighting systems, SET Top Box, AC (Air Conditioner) etc., we need to handle, ON/OFF or monitor these electrical devices remotely or to communicate with these but, if you are not at the home or that place and you wa...

We experimentally demonstrate the first remote state preparation of arbitrary single-qubit states, encoded in the polarization of photons generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Utilizing degenerate and nondegenerate wavelength entangled sources, we remotely prepare arbitrary states at two wavelengths. Further, we derive theoretical bounds on the states that may be remotely prepare...