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...

A unique set of physical and optical observations of sediment resuspension was obtained during the passage of two hurricanes, Edouard and Hortense. The eyes of these hurricanes passed within approximately 110 and 350 km, respectively, of our study site on the continental shelf (100 km south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts) within a two-week period in the fall of 1996. Sediments were resuspended to m...

Sensors have been increasingly used for many ubiquitous computing applications such as asset location monitoring, visual surveillance, and human motion tracking. In such applications, it is important to place sensors such that every point of the target area can be sensed by more than one sensor. Especially, many practical applications require 3-coverage for triangulation, 3D hull building, and ...

To understand tone and intonation in speech, we need to identify their functional components. To identify these components from the acoustic signal of speech, it is critical to recognize that they are not equivalent to any directly observable surface patterns. This is because, as will be argued in this paper, there are multiple degrees of separation between functional components of tone and int...