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With the development of civilization into urban areas, agriculture has been forced to adapt to less space and limited resources. Developments in urban farming and robotics have produced the personal food computer, a device producing a controlled environment for hydroponic plant growth. As many pharmaceuticals originate from chemicals found in plants, investigation of chemicals relevant to human health...
Under competitive market conditions, one of the key objectives of an industrial enterprise is to form and implement an innovation strategy. The purpose of this research study is to form, justify and evaluate the financial and investment development strategy of the enterprise in a short-term and middle-term period. The mission of the enterprise is to develop and introduce software products for industrial...
Growing concerns about increasing world population and limited food resources have been leading researchers to utilize advanced computing technology to improve the efficiency of agricultural fields. Computing technology is expected to increase the productivity, contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between environmental factors and healthy crops, reduce the labor costs for farmers...
We present a simple, yet realistic, agent-based model of an electricity market. The proposed model combines the spot and balancing markets with a resolution of one minute, which enables a more accurate depiction of the physical properties of the power grid. As a test, we compare the results obtained from our simulation to data from Nord Pool.
We consider the setting in which generators compete in scalar-parameterized supply functions to serve an inelastic demand spread throughout a transmission constrained power network. The market clears according to a locational marginal pricing mechanism, in which the independent system operator (ISO) determines the generators' production quantities so as to minimize the revealed cost of meeting demand,...
According to the characteristics of aerospace computer products, this paper proposes aerospace computer productization work architecture and its detail implementations, which includes three key factors: product system plan, technical factors and management factors. By adopting this architecture, we can effectively improve the performance of aerospace computer productization.
The effective integrated approach for modeling of functional devices (FD), airborne computers and embedded systems on the devices design stage is proposed. This approach can be used at the manufacturers, which have a full production cycle, especially in the following industrial systems: instruments for onboard information processing and control, space systems, aviation systems and others. In the traditional...
This paper shows an analysis of Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) coefficient for Vowel-Consonant-Vowel (VCV) sequence in order to determine the temporal transfer function of vocal tract. The Linear Prediction model is a linear combination of the speech sample and the glottal pulse as exciter. The acoustical output of the dynamic system is speech sample. Here, a sequence VCV is analyzed by using LPC...
Taiwan's film industry has great market potential and the recent suggestions by director An Li concerning the increase of investments in film production by the public sector give rise to an important question: how to maximize the investment within the film production industry in order to command significant economic benefit. Film production is technically a service oriented industry. Discrepancies...
A state-of-the-art method based on a grammatical evolution approach is utilized in this study to classify EEG signals. The method is able to construct nonlinear mappings of the original features in order to improve their effectiveness when used as input into artificial intelligence techniques. Several features are initially extracted from the EEG signals which are subsequently used to create the non-linear...
Chemical pesticides security and configuration problems of low precision blending process design a kind of liquid chemical pesticide ingredient line automatic control system. System consists of Host-Computer, PLC, weighing instruments and touch-screen configuration, which use Visual Basic develop design software, with data collection, storage and query capabilities. Omron PLC as the master controller...
The functional diagnosis expert system based on knowledge base in the form of neuro-fuzzy network was proposed in this paper. Current values of diagnostic parameters are measured by sensors. The hybrid expert diagnostic system with neuro-fuzzy network knowledge base supports decisions in the situation when the diagnosis algorithm is not known and is formed from the initial data in the form of production...
Educational videogames are a very effective tool in the learning process, especially for the current generation, known as the digital natives generation. Many studies have shown their benefits in different fields, using computers and mobile devices, among others. Nevertheless, we have not found in the literature any comparative research between these two platforms. Is one of the platforms more effective...
ICT/technologies are increasingly pervasive and embedded in everyday things and objects, constituting a relevant aspect of social identities. Furthermore ICT use continues to be a highly gendered area of life in all socio-economic and educational backgrounds, and a source of significant social inequality in enduring ways. Gender and ICT/technologies is an international growing field of research that...
With the advantages of reasonable structure, convenient installation and easy transportation, the module drilling rig instead of the traditional oil rig, has been more widely used in offshore oil fields. However, due to its module design, there are still some problems such as low-level of automation and difficulties of monitoring and management of the whole system. In this paper, a supervisory control...
This paper presents a formal method to verify execution time bounds of programs at the source level, where timing constraints along with other functional requirements are specified in the routines' contracts and are verified in a modular manner. The approach works based on a countdown time budget mechanism to guarantee the termination of the input program, and incorporates the concepts of separation...
Under the assumption that customers divided into different independent segments have heterogeneous preference on products of a product family and sensitivities to their prices, this paper proposes an ATO (Assemble-to-Order) manufacturer production and pricing model to study how the ATO manufacturer meets the heterogeneous demands of consumers from different segments by product selection and pricing...
The authors carried out three experiments exploring the influence of language similarity on language selection mechanisms. In Experiment 1, The participants were asked to perform the task of language-switching between their two dissimilar but highly proficient languages (Tibetan-Mandarin) ,in which they had to name the pictures quickly and accurately by using the cued language in the picture-word...
Deep sub-micrometer CMOS technologies drive a large proportion of innovation in many industries, including transport, communications, biological sensors, and medical systems. The trend nowadays is to integrate analog/RF circuits together on the same die with the digital processor and memory in advance process nodes. A major challenge is that the amount of process variation becomes particularly pronounced,...
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