Wine is produced by one of two methods: inoculated fermentation, where a commercially-produced, single Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) yeast strain is used; or the traditional spontaneous fermentation, where yeast present on grape and winery surfaces carry out the fermentative process. Spontaneous fermentations are characterized by a diverse succession of yeast, ending with one or mult...

As society has developed, the number of vehicles has increased and road conditions have become complicated, increasing the risk of crashes. Therefore, a service that provides safe vehicle control and various types of information to the driver is urgently needed. In this study, we designed and implemented a real-time traffic information system and a smart camera device for smart driver assistanc...

Government Authorities have been becoming increasingly active in attempts to assist employers to improve fleet and corporate driver safety. Some private insurance companies and brokers are also beginning to offer their clients tools to assist with risk data collection and analysis. Separately, a number of commercial and non-commercial organisations have introduced fleet safety and organisationa...

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are divided into intelligent infrastructure systems and intelligent vehicle systems. Intelligent vehicle systems are typically classified in three categories, namely 1) Collision Avoidance Systems; 2) Driver Assistance Systems and 3) Collision Notification Systems. Obstacle detection is one of crucial tasks for Collision Avoidance Systems and Driver Assi...

driver drowsiness has been one of the main causes of on-road crashes which can lead to death, physical injuries and impose significant costs on the societies. the development of non-intrusive methods to be able to detect driver drowsiness in the early stages of drowsiness is great of importance. this is an educational review and its purpose is to provide recent achievements about non-intrusive ...

An 18Gb/s optical data rate is achieved with a commercial GaAs VCSEL by applying rising and falling edge preemphasis with a 90nm CMOS driver. The pre-emphasis pulse shape can be digitally adjusted with time resolution less than one bit period. The TIA receiver has cross-coupled cascodes to increase the amplifier gain/bandwidth and operates at 12.5Gb/s to 18Gb/s depending on the input capacitanc...

Particular WLAN pathologies experienced in realistic scenarios are hard to detect, due to the complex nature of the wireless medium. Prior work has employed sophisticated equipment, driver modifications, or even application-layer techniques, towards diagnosing such pathologies. The key novelty of our approach lies in the identification of metrics able to characterize the root causes of individu...

The collapse of the dot.com boom in year 2000 notwithstanding, electronic commerce, defined here as commercial transactions over computer-based communications networks, is here to stay. The OECD [31] provides a typical assessment: ‘Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are a pillar of the knowledge-based economy. How countries adopt and master ICT is thus key to their future economi...

Describes the role of high-speed serial IO as the driver in the rapid rise in the development of mixed-signal systems on chip. Permission to make copies, either paper or electronic, of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that the copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that the copies are complete and unmodified. To distribut...