Non-invasive geophysical imaging of Maori ancestral burial sites (urupa) have allowed us to test when and where geophysical surveys are most likely to succeed. Results from five sites, with both marked and unmarked graves, in three coastal settings along the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand show that burials in clay and silt (loess) can be readily identified using geophysical techn...

In this paper we describe BAMUVA. BAMUVA is Robot based behavioural architecture designed to create Intelligent Agents in a Virtual Environment, where each agent senses obstacles and other moving creatures in the environment and reacts to them. The architecture consists of a Behaviour layer, a motor layer and a library of sensors.

in the present study, electrophoretic deposition (EPD) was used to obtain dense and crack-free layers of Al2O3 on carbon substrate. Microstructural study of the obtained layers by scanning electron (SEM) and optical microscopy (OM) approved that crack-free layers can be obtained by EPD technique. According to obtained results, isopropanol is a suitable media to obtian compact layers which is at...

Embryonic stem (ES) cells cultured on gelatin-coated plates or feeder layers form tight aggregated colonies by the E-cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesions. Here we show that murine ES cells do not make cell-cell contacts or form colonies when cultured on the plate coated with a fusion protein of E-cadherin and IgG Fc domain. The cells in culture retain all ES cell features including pluripotenc...

Soil compaction is recognized as a yield limiting factor in crop production. Compaction problems continue to exist for several reasons, including; 1) the large size (mass) of agricultural vehicles; 2) increased operations on wet soils because of larger farm acreage and multi-axle driven equipment; and, 3) the lack of controlled traffic patterns in fields. Where compaction is identified as a pro...

Asymmetry is a common phenomenon in higher organisms. In humans, the cortical representation of language exhibits a high degree of asymmetry with a prevalence of about 90% of left hemispheric dominance, the underlying mechanisms of which are largely unknown. Another sign that exhibits a form of lateralization is the scalp hair-whorl direction, which is either clockwise or anti-clockwise. The sc...

The use of context information in networks of mobile devices is crucial to respond adequately to the user’s expectations. We therefore require that applications dynamically adapt their behaviour according to context changes. Current-day technology typically consists of a series of programming patterns to achieve dynamic behaviour adaptation. However, combining different contexts in such systems...