The Unified Formulation (UF) has gained attention as a powerful tool for efficient design of structural components. Due to the inherent flexibility its kinematics representation, arbitrary shape functions can be selected in different dimensions achieve high-fidelity characterisation response under load. Despite this merit, classical isoparametric description UF limits application prismatic stru...

background: cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with increased fluid accumulation around the heart which influences pulmonary and cardiac diastolic function. the aim of this study was to compare the effects of modified ultrafiltration (muf) versus conventional ultrafiltration (cuf) on duration of mechanical ventilation and hemodynamic status in children undergoing congenital heart surgery.mate...

Vivemos momentos desafiantes na nossa história, com incerteza sobre o futuro, mas, acredito, vontade firme de pincelar presente esperança e construir pontes seguras para amanhã.
 É neste ambiente, apelidado VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity & ambiguity), que escrevo estas linhas terminarão a assinatura como Diretora da CUF Academic Center. Assino muito orgulho satisfação, mas i...

Received on 01 February 2015, published on 23 February 2015 Copyright © 2015 Mandler and Carrera. licensed to ICST. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited. doi: 10.41...

Alberto J Camacho-Castro, José G Sánchez-Turati, Francisco J. García-Salcido, Erick Muñoz-Ibarra, Samuel Ahumada-Tamayo, Gerardo Fernández-Noyola, José A Martínez, Rodrigo Pérez-Becerra, Zael A SantanaRíos, Alejandro Urdiales-Ortiz, Santiago Fulda-Graue, Víctor Hernández-Castellanos, Dorian Saavedra-Briones, Claudio E Merayo-Chalico, Germán Recinos-Carrera, Mauricio Cantellano-Orozco, Jorge G M...

* Correspondence concerning this article: Francisco J Ruiz, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Carrera 9 bis, No 6243, Bogotá, Colombia. E-mail: [email protected]. Acknowledgments This study and the preparation of the article were supported, in part, by funds from the research project PSI2014-59610-P (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain) under the direction of ...

This paper describes a unified theory for autocalibration of a moving camera. The camera models can be 2D projective, 2D affine camera and 1D projective projections. The scenes can be either non-planar scenes or planar scenes and the camera may also undergoes a pure rotation. All these cases are unified into the same framework based on the direction bases. Each formulation on the direction base...

Optimal and Learning Control for Autonomous Robots has been taught in the Robotics, Systems and Controls Masters at ETH Zurich with the aim to teach optimal control and reinforcement learning for closed loop control problems from a unified point of view. The starting point is the formulation of of an optimal control problem and deriving the different types of solutions and algorithms from there...

ÐHoneycomb and diamond networks have been proposed as alternatives to mesh and torus architectures for parallel processing. When wraparound links are included in honeycomb and diamond networks, the resulting structures can be viewed as having been derived via a systematic pruning scheme applied to the links of 2D and 3D tori, respectively. The removal of links, which is performed along a diagon...