Subjects communicated prior to playing trust games; the richness of the communication media and the topics of conversation were manipulated. Communication richness failed to produce significant differences in first-mover investments. However, the topics of conversation made a significant difference: the amounts sent were considerably higher in the unrestricted communication conditions than in t...

Medium-term modeling of electricity market has essential role in generation expansion planning. On the other hand, uncertainties strongly affect modeling and consequently, strategic analysis of generation firms in the medium term. Therefore, models considering these uncertainties are highly required. Among uncertain variables considered in the medium term generation planning, demand and hyd...

Establishing correspondences between two minutia sets is a fundamental issue in fingerprint recognition. This paper proposes a new tensor matching strategy. First, the concept of minutia tensor matrix (simplified as MTM) is proposed. It describes the first-order features and second-order features of a matching pair. In the MTM, the diagonal elements indicate similarities of minutia pairs and no...

I n this paper, two novel ultra wideband (UWB) minimized antennas based on the composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH-TL) structures are designed.

Since 2008 Fiat Group Automobiles has introduced Ergo-UAS system for the balancing of production lines and to detect ergonomic issues. Ergo-UAS system integrates 2 specific methods: MTM-UAS for time measurement and EAWS as ergonomic method to evaluate biomechanical effort for each workstation. Fiat is using a software system to manage time evaluation and ergo characterization of production cycl...

We describe the development and implementation of a family of non-linear filters in which the non-linear term is given a variable recursive delay, in the context of a search for what we term an arithmetical instrument – an instrument whose design is founded on purely numerical models. Such filters are inherently unstable; we describe how they may be controlled, not only by the careful selection...

The metaphor of life-logging (personal e-memory) promises a complimentary assistance to the biological human memory. However life-log information, which is collected from raw context sensors data, is weakly coupled with real life events. Further forgetting, an inherent feature of human memory, is not supported in life-logs. To address these limitations of life-logs we propose two novel approach...