Plastics are increasingly a preferred material choice in designing and developing complex, consumer products, such as automobiles, because they are mouldable, lightweight, and are often perceived to be highly recyclable materials. However, actually recycling the heterogeneous plastics used in such durable items is challenging, and presents very different scenarios to how simple products, such a...

44 JPT • MARCH 2012 Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of articles on the great challenges facing the oil and gas industry as outlined by the SPE Research and Development (R&D) Committee. The R&D challenges comprise broad upstream business needs: increasing recovery factors, in-situ molecular manipulation, carbon capture and sequestration, produced water management, higher resolution ...

1 This is one of a number of proposals being discussed in the framework of the UK 'Grand Challenges' initiative of the UK computing research committee (UKCRC).

Entsprechend den von der GI formulierten „Grand Challenges der Informatik“ beschäftigt sich der Workshop mit einer aktuellen Herausforderung der Informatik der Software Qualität. „Software ist heute allgegenwärtig und kommt im täglichen Leben überall zum Einsatz: in der Kommunikation, der Unterhaltungselektronik, im Haushalt, in der Medizintechnik und in sicherheitskritischen Bereichen." [Grand...

There is an urgent need to develop data integration and testing strategy frameworks allowing interpretation of results from animal alternative test batteries. To this end, we developed a Bayesian Network Integrated Testing Strategy (BN ITS) with the goal to estimate skin sensitization hazard as a test case of previously developed concepts (Jaworska et al., 2010). The BN ITS combines in silico, ...

1 This is one of a number of proposals being discussed in the framework of the UK 'Grand Challenges' initiative of the UK computing research committee (UKCRC).

Emerging field of intimate computing relates to the technologies that aim to mediate affective communication across distance. Conventional telecommunication media are originally designed for collaborations and task oriented goals with the poor support of intimate experiences. Contemporary lifestyle changes leaded to design and adoption of technologies in support of long distance relationships. ...