Some of the traditional methods used to control a conventional prosthetic device are described alongside the current state of new control techniques and how they may progress. The review includes implantable myoelectric sensors and describes the potential of connecting directly to the peripheral nervous system. Control methods are then deduced for each technique, where the application is a six ...

Last week we looked at structural issues. Specifically, the oversupply glut of 3 billion workers competing for the work that 800 million workers were doing before the internet opened the world to the emerging market supply chain. Think China’s massive infrastructure build out – the excess manufacturing and labor capabilities and also think about Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and India. Fifteen dolla...

Manipulation of high-precision voxel volume at interactive speed is still not immediately possible by known algorithms on today’s workstation hardware. We propose to decompose a voxel-based modeling system into layers. The concept opens the possibility to apply less precise but fast algorithms of manipulation and rendering, but also to produce voxelmodels at the higher precision possibly requir...

This paper reports a multi-national, multi-institutional study to investigate Computer Science students’ understanding of software design and software design criteria. Student participants were recruited from two groups: students early in their degree studies and students completing their Bachelor degrees. Computer Science educators were also recruited as a comparison group. The study, includin...

It would not be rational to establish/operationalised a new climate fund if it is just the same as all the other existing international climate funds. Expectations are that the GCF will, in the longer term, will have an annual turnover in double digit billion dollar figures. It is also clear that such a turnover will not be possible at the outset, not only because of a lack of available funds, ...

This paper presents an algorithm for checking temporal precedence properties of nonlinear switched systems. This class of properties subsume bounded safety and capture requirements about visiting a sequence of predicates within given time intervals. The algorithm handles nonlinear predicates that arise from dynamics-based predictions used in alerting protocols for state-of-the-art transportatio...

I n this paper, we propose a new tactile sensory structure using integrated sensing elements what we call “tensor cell”. I t as located sparsely in a flexible body of tactile sensor, and samples there the complete information of stress tensor w,hich requires six degrees of freedom t o describe it. W e clarify first the advantage of this architecture theoretically based on the elastici t y theor...

Activated sludge systems are biological processes greatly used in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). These systems are composed of an aerated tank where the biochemical phase occurs and a settler where the physical phase takes place. Solid-liquid separation is one of the most critical steps in activated sludge processes. This stage presents three main objectives: sludge thickening, effluent c...

Sina Weibo, which was launched in 2009, is the most popular Chinese micro-blogging service. It has been reported that Sina Weibo has more than 400 million registered users by the end of the third quarter in 2012. Sina Weibo and Twitter have a lot in common, however, in terms of the following preference, Sina Weibo users, most of whom are Chinese, behave differently compared with those of Twitte...